I'm also skeptical that they even stole the idea of the Prada phone as it seems to me they have been planning the iPhone for a while, maybe even back in 2005. Here's a link to a article dated July 20, 2006 (the Prada phone was announced December 12, 2006) where it talks about apple filing patents for touchscreen technology back in 2005: http://www.appleinsider.com/articles/06/07/20/inside_apples_latest_ipod_touch_screen_patent_filing.html

Now people were speculating that Apple was just going to do something like the iPod touch, but the iPhone was the 1st product to use this technology. Now of course LG was probably planning the Prada phone back in 2005 as well, and maybe Apple got wind of it some how back then and copied the idea, but they hardly copied the phone like stated before. It's like saying that the second flip phone that emerged on the market was a copy of the first one (and in that case the flip phone design was probably based on the Star Trek communicator, but I didn't hear Gene Roddenberry complaining about being copied). You can't really get a patent for something that covers all flip phones or all "touchscreen" phones, it's like Fox News trying to Copyright "Fair and balanced," it just too vague, you need to be more specific.

People are also arguing over which one is the better phone, and this is another tough one because better, like beauty is in the eye of the beholder. I might also add that most of the world thinks the iPhone is better and the proof is the sales of each: the iPhone is the clear winner there, probably for a lot of the reasons I said in my 1st paragraph. Now you might start to flame me and say I only think that because I'm American, but that is not the case. I believe it was TJ (it said it was JT) who said that Korea is making the price of US cars unfairly high due to tariffs and that is why they don't sell as well. I don't think that's the case, because I looked up the prices for New Cars at a Boston dealership (Herb Chambers) that sells pretty much every brand of car (and some scooters too). They list all the new vehicles in order by price starting with the lowest, and yes an American car (Chevy Aveo) was the cheapest at $10,610, but the next 13 cars were either Korean or Japanese and all under $14,000. Now if Korean and Japanese cars are pretty much the same price in the US with the Tariffs we put on them, that clearly shows that Korean cars should obviously be cheaper in Korea than US cars, even if Korea didn't apply any tariffs. Also, the Korean cars are outselling US by a large amount, even in the US, so if I use the same logic as before, most of the world believe Korean cars are better.

Now back to the topic at hand, China and the iPhone. I've been living in Beijing for about a year now and I see tons of iPhones on the street, and all that I have been able to use have been on China Mobile's network. I think that 400,000 iPhone stat could easily be plausible, as that is only .04% of their population (that using 1,000,000,000 as the population of China, and it's bigger). I'm also not so sure that an exclusive deal with China Unicom or another company would make that much of a difference: sure they could get updates easier and faster if they use the official network, but they will always be able to take it to some little market and get it updated with little hassle, and as another person said, the chinese like cracked goods. With blocked phones in the US, I hear you can use pretty much all of the features of the iPhone except some of the new voicemail functions: here in China, pretty much no one has voice mail (don't even know if it is offered) and I don't know anyone here who has it (which can be annoying at times).

On a side note, I think that if Apple does officially sell the iPhone in China, they should release the chinese version with handwriting recognition. When talking about why Chinese people get smartphones, the article left this out, which I feel is a big reason why people here like smart phones. Now why would this be so important? There are two ways to enter Chinese characters with a dial pad, pin yin and itap. The pin Yin system is essentially a transliteration (I did spell this correctly, its not a translation) of chinese words. If anybody has taken a chinese class, you are familiar with Pin Yin because this is how they start to teach you how to speak. All younger people know the Pin Yin, but a lot of middle aged and older people (40+) have no clue about it. For those people, they use the itap feature. Each number on the dial pad relates to a certain stroke (kinda like letters for the character, but they don't represent a sound), and each character has a certain stroke order. Now a lot of people in china feel it's much easier to use the touch screen to write the character than use pin yin or itap. If Apple was able to make it so they could have Handwriting recognition but somehow make it so the old "US" or "European" can't get the feature (maybe something with the hardware, I'm no engineer), then they might find a lot of those 400,000 users buying brand new Chinese iPhones.

iPhone is not that cool, and China Mobile can still benefit from a deal with Apple just because the huge Chinese market. All of that still doesn't mean I will buy an iPhone, in the US or China. But still why do the Koreans have their undies in a bunch about this?

Korea does not steal America's technology. You are an idiot. You just talked about America history but those stories are not related to this kind of issue. I think that you are just red hat Yankee from NYC.

There are rules. If Korea Company use America's technology, they need to pay money for their patent or license. Thus, it is impossible to steal America’s tech.

These are my list for your statement.

1. I-Pod

First MP3 Player was invented by Korea's company, JME. I am not talking about MP3 File but Mp3 Portable Player. Unfortunately, This Company was merged by i-River because they broken down due to high development cost. I-River also sold the patent to American due to lack of budget. If you check “How stuff Work” or some other similar web, you can find out what is top 10 MP3 in the world.

2. I-Phone

Touch Screen was used in Prada Phone before Apple use it.

3. I-Phone’s Mobile Phone Camera

- Using Camera in Mobile Phone, It was also invented in Korea.

4. MP3P for Mobile Phone: Invented by Korean.

So, I-phone copied Korea’s Prada Phone. It is not that excellent as you think

1. I-Pod

First MP3 Player was invented by Korea's company, JME. I am not talking about MP3 File but Mp3 Portable Player. Unfortunately, This Company was merged by i-River and they sold the patent to American due to lack of budget.

2. IPhone

Touch Screen was used in Prada Phone before Apple use it.

3. I-Phone’s Mobile Phone Camera

- It was also invented in Korea.

4. MP3P for Mobile Phone: Invented by Korean.

So, I-phone copied Korea’s Prada Phone. It is not that excellent as you think

I know that Apple's I-Pod is pouplar in the U.S. However, MP3 Player was originally invented by Korea's company, JME. If you tell JME brand in Europe, they recognize what JME stands for. Thier product name was MP-Man. It's market share rate was 8,7 % while I-Pod took 9% in Europe.

So I am using Anycall and I wanted to change it to Prada because of design.

However, LG Prada does not have phone conversation recording function. I just received confirmation e-mail from LGE’s representative. LGE has less experience than Samsung.

I had legal problem with some other people. I won lawsuit because of Anycall’s phone conversation function. I recorded phone call that was called from Sony Erickson guy. I turned the evidence to the court and I won the lawsuit. In Korea, that’s not illegal. I got indemnities for lawsuit and of course the amount of indemnities is more than my Phone’s price. My company is also has partnership with Samsung and my payment was Okay. We supplied part for the phone.

Anyway, The Anycall gives me money and I am satisfied with the result. I made lots of money because this Anycall. Now I have money and I will go with new luxurious high-end Anycall model instead of Prada. If iPhone has that kind of function, I will consider it for my next phone.

Honestly, I won law suit that is related because of this Anycall. Anycall can record phone conversation and I turned it to the court. By winning this case, I could receive more indemnities and its amount is more than the phone’s price. So I think that this Samsung call gives me more money by winning the laws suit and The company gives me more money for the working. So I am satisfied with their phone.

Japanese does not pay much salary as Korean does. Korean's average salary is higher than Japanese' I have static about that. I also have no reason to buy your phone and car with your history and inventors.