NetEase Technology News on May 5. According to foreign media reports, since the release of Samsung’s latest flagship mobile phone S III, many people in the industry have believed that the appearance design is not outstanding enough. Some analysts pointed out that the plain appearance of S III is to avoid Apple’s appearance design. patent.

Apple previously claimed that Samsung mobile phones copied many design elements, such as "a rectangular body with the same rounded corners" and a "large-screen body with black borders". Therefore, Samsung’s S III consulted the lawyer’s advice and started with the details listed by Apple to avoid potential litigation risks.

The following is a comparison of several major Apple design elements with the S III:

Apple Patent 1: The body is rectangular, with the four corners having the same rounded corners.

S III: After embedding S III into a square, you will find that its four corners have been processed. At the same time, the opposite sides of a rectangle are parallel, but the two sides of this phone are not, so strictly speaking, this phone cannot be considered a rectangle at all. As shown below:

In addition, its four corners are not as uniformly curved as Apple’s patent mentions. They are not the same shape at all. The comparison between the upper left corner and the lower left corner is as follows:

Apple Patent 2: The front of the product is a large screen body with a black border.

S III: The phone colors are only white and dark blue, not the black mentioned in Apple’s patent. So Samsung's legal counsel can rest easy again. As shown below:

Apple Patent 3: The width of the black borders on the upper and lower sides of the screen is roughly the same.

S III: As shown in the picture, the upper and lower borders of this phone are completely different. The top is 16% less wide than the bottom, and they are not black.

Apple Patent 4: Colored application icons are displayed in uniform rounded squares.

S III: Samsung canceled this design after S II. as the picture shows:

Apple Patent 5: The bottom row of application icons is separated from other application icons. When the user views other interfaces, this row of icons remains unchanged.

S III: In the SI and II phones on the left and center, the lower row of application panels does not change when the user enters another interface. But in S III, this design was cancelled.

According to the above analysis, in the patent war with Samsung, it is difficult for Apple to grasp the S III, at least at the level of design elements. It is no wonder that the S III is called a "mobile phone designed by a lawyer." (Ogawa)