Following the iPhone injunction that Qualcomm secured in Germany, Apple’s pulled the iPhone 7 and iPhone 8 models from its own stores and third-party resellers in the country.
The chip maker might be prepping to extend iPhone sales ban to the latest XS and XR models while prohibiting sales of the Apple handset at German carriers and third-party resellers.
After a German court concluded that Apple is in violation of a Qualcomm hardware patent, Apple said it would pull some iPhone models from its own stores in the country.
Apple’s acknowledged that the iPhone-exclusive iOS 12.1.2 software update has indeed circumvented a pair of Qualcomm patents, despite Qualcomm’s claims to the contrary.
Qualcomm claims that the Cupertino tech giant “continues to flout the legal” by remaining in violation of a Chinese court’s orders to stop selling iPhones 6s through iPhone X.
Apple will soon release special iOS updates to its Chinese customers that were specifically created to circumvent a pair of patents, owned by Qualcomm, which are essential to an iPhone injunction that the chip maker has won recently in the 1.33 billion people country.
Apple’s reportedly been actively hiring silicon engineers in San Diego, where it operates an office with a growing Wireless Architecture team, to work on a custom cellular modem for future iPhones.
All hopes for some sort of settlement with Qualcomm were dashed today as Apple told Reuters it was not in talks “at any level” to settle its wide-ranging legal dispute with the chip maker.
Apple could pay up to $21 per future iPhone to implement 5G technology. Much of this could go to Qualcomm, although that could change.
The upcoming 2018 iPhone lineup might only use Intel-based modems. This news comes from Qualcomm, which says its modems won’t be used in this year’s phones.
Qualcomm on Monday is celebrating recently announced Ookla download speed tests that pitted its Snapdragon 845 chip against the Intel XMM 7480.
Bringing 5G networking to mobile devices hasn’t been an easy process. However, it looks like Qualcomm has passed a significant hurdle to make it a reality.