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Brazilians Can Now Buy an "iPhone" Loaded With Android
Andy Prough writes "If you happen to be in Brazil and have 599 reals jingling in your pocket ($304 US dollars or £196), you can buy an iPhone — that runs Android. Gradiente Electronica, which registered the 'iPhone' name in Brazil in 2000, has won the right to sell its iPhone Neo One, an Android phone running version 2.3, Gingerbread. Gradiente won the ruling from the Institute of Industrial Property (INPI), despite Apple's argument that Gradiente should lose the right to 'iPhone' because it had not used the name between 2008-2012. Apple retains the right to appeal the case, and Gradiente now has the right to sue Apple for exclusivity in Brazil. If Gradiente wins, the only iPhones sold in Brazil would have a picture of a cute green robot on the box cover."
Why does this fill your heart with joy?
a new android phone running yet another OUTDATED version of Android that isn't going to receive any kinds of long term updates.
This product will be dead in a year. the iphone will keep chugging alone and apple won't have to even try to do anything about it.
It is running Gingerbread people you should be screaming at this company to get off it's ass and release it with a recent OS.
i thought once I was found, but it was only a dream.
So you think Brazilian government should subvert its own country's legal system to benefit an American private company? I like the way you think, it's so... Banana Republic.
Have you read the news in the latest decades? Some things have changed, you know?