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The iPhone 1 won't, it's to do with CDMA which is only the iPhone 4 had as I understand it. The iPhone 4 with CDMA was also only available in the US though and that area is already under litigation.

See http://www.guardian.co.uk/technology/2011/oct/05/samsung-app... for more info.




The article states that the patents cover WCDMA, which is apparently one of the standards used by GSM, and the standard that Apple used with the 3GS(http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Universal_Mobile_Telecommunicat...).

CDMA is a superset of that, apparently, and can also apply with certain GSM providers.


WCDMA is basis for UMTS, which is also called 3G. Plain-old GSM (2G and EDGE) is TDMA-based.




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