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Samsung Removes Search Function from Galaxy S3 Smartphones
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Samsung has issued a software update to the Galaxy S3 smartphone that disables the feature that allowed users to search search contacts, apps and other on-device content.
The reason for the decision is to avoid another patent battle with Apple, which claims that that searching files on a mobile phone is not just actually patentable, but a patent that it owns.
The software update had already been applied to handsets in the USA to avoid an import ban on the smartphones, but the company has now rolled the software change out internationally as well.
The patent dispute is due to go to court on the 20th August, but the move to preemptively remove the software function suggests that Samsung is not confident of victory, and could have been worried about the scale of punitive damages that US courts can impose.
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