{"id":3466,"date":"2011-08-18T13:30:05","date_gmt":"2011-08-18T18:30:05","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/techcitement.com\/?p=3466"},"modified":"2011-11-17T22:07:37","modified_gmt":"2011-11-18T04:07:37","slug":"tablet-thursday-digest-injunction-junked","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/techcitement.com\/hardware\/tablet\/tablet-thursday-digest-injunction-junked\/","title":{"rendered":"Tablet Thursday Digest: Injunction Junked"},"content":{"rendered":"
Well, that was fast. The injunction against the sale of the Samsung Galaxy Tab has — albeit temporarily — been lifted<\/a> in the European Union (a notable exception is Germany, where the ban is still in place). This news came Tuesday a day after several blogs, such as PC World, pointed out that it looked like Apple might have, shall we say,\u00a0 “tweaked<\/a>” the evidence a tad.<\/p>\n \u201cBut the picture Apple submitted of the Tab is inaccurate and does not match with the real Galaxy Tab 10.1, Webwereld discovered<\/a>. Further investigations have verified this assessment. The Galaxy Tab due on the European market is taller and more oblong than the iPad 2. However, the shape of what Apple’s claims to be a Tab 10.1 resembles the iPad very closely.<\/p>\n The picture of the alleged Galaxy Tab provided by Apple is cropped and its aspect ratio is distorted. According to Samsung, the Tab measures 256.7 x 175.3 millimeters, which translates to an aspect ratio<\/a> of 1.46. The Tab pictured in the complaint however has an aspect ratio of 1.36. The bottom is about 8 percent wider than the actual one.<\/p>\n As a result, the aspect ratio of the purported Tab is actually closer to the aspect ratio of the iPad 2, which is 1.30. In short: the shape of the alleged Galaxy Tab 10.1 in Apple’s complaint matches the iPad 2 more closely than it matches the actual Tab.\u201d<\/p><\/blockquote>\n Apple\u2019s tweaks seem to have been to make the image \u201clook better\u201d, but that doesn\u2019t exactly fly with court documents. \u00a0It\u2019s looking like this is one galaxy<\/a> Apple will have trouble erasing.<\/p>\n