We all knew it was coming sometime. Conclusions of the “Samsung vs. Apple” case are continuing to take effect, now with Verizon. In case you have not been keeping up on what’s happened over the past couple of weeks, Apple has essentially sued Samsung over a variety of “non-problematic” things, and has made it so, Samsung, can no longer use the unified search feature in there smartphones.
Since Apple “allegedly” has a patent on all existence, a recent update has been rolled out to Galaxy S III users on the Verizon network. This update, named VRLG1, basically rids the use of “unified search”, which is the function to navigate through files and media on your phone, with the addition of web functionality and voice commands.
Alongside that “burden of bad news”, the kernel for the Verizon S III has also been updated. According to Droid-Life, these changes have already been taking effect on devices, and in fact, will already be on phones you purchase at the store “today”, as well as replacement phones through your insurance plan.
Even though this is obviously a cheap shot by Apple, what do you think of the search functionality changes in the recent update? Will this make your average day difficult? I would love to hear your comments.
[Via: Droid-Life]
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Obviously this is an invalid patent and Apple is unmitigatedly evil. But I never found universal search to work very well anyhow. I won’t miss something that was about 49% broken anyway.
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Well at first me and my wife was able to reject it, because we got ours with the first batch! But according to my wife she received an update through out the night which she spotted intimto defer it but it kept coming back(she was no longer able to reject it.( reject being a button, defer being another button). Luckily my phone was in airplane mode so I dodged the update for now.