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Originally Posted by afa
I don't know when other phones implemented this, but my 3-year old Nokia E71 had the ability to recognize phone numbers in text messages and allow you to call/sms etc. directly from there by clicking it.
I'm surprised that Apple has the patent for this. Were they really the first to implement this? And why sue HTC but not Nokia?
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Perhaps - and this is pure speculation - Nokia paid Apple a licence fee. That's the way that these patents are intended to work; not to suppress technology, but to licence it.