The jury verdict against it notwithstanding, Samsung
Electronics is all set to showcase its new Galaxy Note at an electronics show
in Berlin on Wednesday.
On Friday last week, a federal court in San Jose held
Samsung guilty
of infringing on Apple Inc.(NASDAQ:AAPL)’s patents and copying its designs
and made it liable to pay the Cupertino company more than a billion dollars in
damages.
The Samsung Galaxy Note, the bridge between a phone
and a tablet, is the most popular device after its Galaxy smartphone. It has not been included in the list of
smartphones that Apple is seeking to get banned in the United States.
The new Galaxy Note is an upgrade on the previous
version and Samsung hopes that this will infuse some enthusiasm amongst its
employees after last week's verdict.
"There won't be huge innovative changes in
design, but the Note 2 will feature quite a few improvements and enable Samsung
to carry on its strong sales momentum in the category," Lee Sun-tae, an
analyst at NH Investment & Securities, told Reuters.
"With the
launch, Samsung will also be trying to turn around downbeat sentiment after the
U.S. legal defeat."
The Note's upgrade is expected to have a thinner and
slightly bigger 5.5-inch screen, powerful quad-core processor, Google's new
Android operating system Jellybean and improved stylus function.
The new Note
comes three months after Samsung released the new Galaxy S smartphone, which
has already sold more than 10 million, and succeeds the original 5.3-inch Note,
which was introduced in late-October and was a surprise hit, selling more than
10 million within nine months.
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