A Samsung Galaxy S2 and iPhone 4 side by side.

As part of the two companies’ lawsuits against each other, Lucy Koh, the San Jose judge in charge of the legal proceeding, has forced Samsung to had over several unreleased devices to its chief competitor, Apple. Apple will have a chance to go over the devices to look for infringing hardware and software that might violate its design and utility patents. The devices required to be hand over are both of the new Galaxy Tabs, Galaxy S2, Verizon’s Droid Charge, and AT&T’s Infuse 4G.

In most normal circumstances, the infringing company would have three months to turn over said products (in case they were under NDA and in development) – but Samsung has been too public about these products. Two of the three phones are released, and all of them have been shown to the public either online, in trade shows, and even via television advertisements. A limited edition Galaxy Tab 10.1 was also given to 5,000 Google I/O attendees earlier this month, as Apple points out – which further more justifies that the 3 month rule should not apply.

Apple claims the Touchwiz user interface used in these products might be a little too similar to the iOS user interface (see picture above) and wants to research the similarities in more detail. Despite the validity of the case, however, it’s hard to deny that Apple might be wanting the devices for its own gain too. With the iPhone 4S (or iPhone 5) along with a series of new iPods launching later this fall, the demand for these devices from a company like Apple might certainly raise some eyebrows.

What do you think? Is Apple doing this for its own gain, or to see if Touchwiz really does infringing on its patents?

[Source: Courthouse News Service]

What do you think? Is Apple becoming the must have brand of all time? Do you value your coke over your iPod? Let us know in the comments box after the break.

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And, as it turns out, the iPhone has the cheapest costs over a two year period.

Although Apple’s iPhone might be the cheapest under contract, it’s important to note that AT&T is the only provider in the chart above the restricts data. All the other providers have an option for unlimited data. AT&T provides 250MB for $19 and 2GB for $25. Want tethering? That’s an additional $20 per month.

[Source: BilShrink]

If you meet those requirements, and you’re willing to risk bricking your iPhone, follow  how to jailbreak iPhone OS 4 beta 4 after the break.

Steps 1 and 2 are only if you are not using a beta build of iPhone OS 4. Skip them if you have iPhone OS 4 installed on your device already.

Step 1: Activate your UDID with a Apple developer account to install iPhone OS betas. You will be stuck at the Connect to iTunes screen forever if you ignored this step.

Step 2: Install iPhone OS beta 4 (Beta 1 will still work, but isn’t advisable) by Option + left clicking on ‘Restore’ and selecting the beta firmware once prompted.

Step 3: After you’ve finished installing and syncing your iPhone again, open redsn0w (download can be found at the source link below) and click browse on the first screen. Navigate and select your beta firmware that you used to restore your phone. From this point on, it should be very similar to how you jailbreak on iPhone OS 3 using DFU. Follow this guide for more instructions.

Step 4: You should be done! Cydia should be there, but with a white icon and no repositories added. Add the following repository to use the standard sources and get the normal icon back: http://apt.saurik.com/cydia-3.7

Source: iPhone Dev-Team

Firefox Home is a way for you to view your bookmarks, history, open tabs, and the Awesome Bar of your computer’s Firefox browser on your iPhone and iPod touch, albeit that Firefox Home isn’t actually a browser. The app has not been submitted to the App Store, but seems likely to pass (after all, Opera Mini did).

Source: Mozilla Blog