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Google announced Android Go last year. It’s an iteration of the company’s mobile operating system that’s meant for low-end devices with less than 1GB of RAM. The operating system and accompanying lightweight apps are optimized for low-end devices to provide a good user experience. ZTE was among the first companies to launch an Android Go smartphone and it appears that Samsung might have one in the pipeline as well.

Samsung wasn’t a part of Google’s Android One program and while it’s yet to confirm if it will be launching an Android Go smartphone, word on the street is that the company does have one in the pipeline.

A recent benchmark listing for an unreleased Samsung device bearing model number SM-J260G brought clues which suggested that this is an Android Go smartphone. The device was listed having a processor codenamed Universal7570_Go with 1GB of RAM, both key indications of a Go-branded device.

According to a new report, Samsung is testing its Android Go handset for four markets – Nepal, Bangladesh, India, and Sri Lanka. It would make sense for the company to launch its first Android Go smartphone in these markets as they are where it normally launches its slew of budget smartphones. Samsung’s low-end devices powered by its homegrown Tizen operating system also have 1GB of RAM and less and they have managed to carve a niche for themselves in this market as well.

Whether or not Samsung will bring its Android Go device to other markets, particularly in the West, remains to be seen. With ZTE launching the first Android Go handset in the United States, Samsung might want to get a piece of that pie for itself as well.

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Apple first sued Samsung over patent infringement back in 2011. The devices over which it was sued are no longer on sale and yet the case has dragged on since then but lawsuits and countersuits being filed by both companies. The case was decided in Apple’s favor in 2012 and it was awarded $1.05 billion in damages. Samsung disputed the amount and now the fight is over the amount that’s due to the Cupertino company. The retrial of this patent violation has begun and Apple has demanded $1 billion in damages from its rival.

Samsung isn’t refuting the claim that it infringed on Apple’s patents but instead of the latter’s demand for $1 billion in damages, it’s asking for a much smaller penalty of $28 million.

Apple’s lawyer Bill Lee has said that Samsung made a profit of around $1 billion by violating the company’s design patents which Samsung is of the view that it should only be made to pay the amount it made by violating the specific patents and not the entire profits of the devices through which these patents were infringed.

That figure, according to Samsung, comes to $28 million. Samsung’s lawyer John Quinn said in court that Apple is seeking profits on the entire phone and that the company’s patents are “narrow,” reiterating that the award should be limited to the specific components of those devices that were found to infringe on Apple’s patents.

This case will continue for months to come and the tech industry will certainly be watching closely to see what the court rules in this case that’s going to set a big precedent for an industry where patent violation cases are a dime a dozen.

Apple Wants $1 Billion From Samsung In Damages Retrial , original content from Ubergizmo. Read our Copyrights and terms of use.