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> Most of the players are mobile phone makers that are trying to compete with the iPhone by cloning its most distinctive features

Such as the iPhone cloning distinctive features that have been developed / patented by Nokia and others. Double standards?

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I was under the impression that those were all WLAN, GSM and UMTS patents relating to the radio equipment. Hardly 'distinctive features' on the same level as accurate multitouch on a glass screen.

Sure, if being able to actually call someone reliably isn't a distinctive feature.

Every technology that's newly introduced into the mainstream is distinctive at first. I don't see LEMS or NMT phones around anymore.

Yeah, multitouch on a glass screen, that's the killer feature that will make mobile phones popular.

Which distinctive features?

the 5 or so apple was forced to pay up a time ago

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