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Apple Inc. has signed its first deals with mobile phone operators to offer its iPhone in three of Europe’s largest markets, ending a period of intense negotiations, according to a report in the Financial Times newspaper. Germany’s T-Mobile Deutschland GmbH, France’s Orange SA and Britain’s O2 (UK) Ltd. are reported to have signed exclusive deals to sell the iPhone in their respective markets.
The operators have agreed to give Apple 10 percent of the revenue they generate from the sale of voice and data services for the device, according to the report, which cited unnamed sources. The operators hope to introduce the phone in time for the important Christmas shopping season.
If Apple had held an iPhone design contest, this is what the device could have looked like — iPhone V.2 ?
The first iPhone lawsuit might have been somewhat laughable, but the second one may be a little more serious.
An outfit called SP Technologies has sued Apple over the touch-screen keyboard at the heart of the iPhone, claiming Apple is infringing on a patent held by SP Technologies for a similar keyboard. AppleInsider dug up the SP patent filing from 2000, which claims the company developed a “method of providing a user interface for receiving information from a user using a user immutable graphical keyboard linked to an input area.”
Apple was sued last week by a company claiming a patent on touch-screen keyboards.
Patent suits, of course, are a dime a dozen, and Apple’s not exactly the first company to ever use a touch-screen style input method. But this one will probably require more effort to defend than the iPhone battery suit filed a few weeks ago. The suit was filed Thursday in Tyler, Texas, which has become the destination of choice for patent suits these days.
An Apple representative did not immediately return a call seeking comment, but it’s unlikely Apple would have much to say at this stage.
