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Qualcomm, the world’s largest supplier of chips for phones, says it’s cut a deal with Samsung that could help it put a Korean antitrust case behind it and avoid a massive fine.

In a statement Wednesday, Qualcomm said it had “expanded its global patent cross-license agreement with Samsung covering mobile devices and infrastructure equipment” and that as part of the deal, Samsung “will be withdrawing its interventions in Qualcomm’s appeal of the KFTC decision in the Seoul High Court.”

In December, South Korea hit Qualcomm with an $850 million fine following a three-year investigation. The South Korean Fair Trade Commission accused the chipset maker of having an “unfair business model” and creating a monopoly with its practices.

Qualcomm is fighting fierce legal battles against Apple and governments around the globe. Apple, Samsung and others also have been working on their own processors and partnering with Intel to reduce their reliance on Qualcomm’s wireless chips. At the same time, Qualcomm is facing a hostile takeover bid from rival Broadcomm, which if it came to pass, would be the biggest in tech history.

CNET’s Shara Tibken contributed to this report.

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Golf is a challenging game but help — in the form of smart shoes — is on the way.

Samsung spin-off Salted Venture on Tuesday confirmed its Iofit shoes have landed on Kickstarter and should hit stores in February 2017.

With an expected sticker price of $260, early bird backers of the project should be able to scoop up a pair for a more reasonable $189. Still that’s a lot to drop on what are essentially a set of fancy sneakers packed with unique electronics.

For more details on just how these kicks are expected to improve your golf swing, and even weight lifting stats, take a look at our Iofit hands-on.

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Editors’ note: Check out our hands-on impressions with the Iofit smart shoes.

The Galaxy S7 and Galaxy S7 Edge smartphones won’t be the only products Samsung shows off at Mobile World Congress. The South Korean electronics giant will also debut a new pair of connected smart shoes. The shoes, called Iofit, were developed by Salted Venture, a startup that is backed by Samsung.

We’ve seen connected shoes before from companies like Under Armour and Altra, but the Iofit sneakers look to take a different approach. Whereas past smart sneakers focused on activity and run tracking, Salted Venture’s shoe is all about improving balance and body posture.

The shoe is equipped with built-in sensors to measure pressure and movement. It also includes Bluetooth connectivity to communicate with a companion app that will provide coaching to enhance your strength training and your golf swing.

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The app displays results in real time and can provide audio coaching to help users fix their form. You can also video record your workouts to receive customized coaching and analysis, as well as the ability to compare your video side-by-side with another. The company highlighted in a press release how this feature could allow users to work with a trainer regardless of their location.

A crowdfunding campaign will be launched later this year for preorders. The fitness sneakers are expected to cost $149, while the golf shoes will cost $199. Salted Venture has also said that it is actively seeking partnerships with footwear companies to embed the technology in third-party products.

We will learn more about the Iofit sneakers at Mobile World Congress next week in Barcelona.

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Samsung-branded stores are opening across Europe in time for the S5.
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With the Samsung Galaxy S5 hitting shop shelves this week, Samsung has opened the doors on more branded stores in Europe today in readiness for the new flagship phone.

Following 19 stores already open in Europe, the first British shops have opened in 7 UK cities, selling Samsung’s full range of mobiles, tablets, laptops and wearable gadgets. The magnificent 7 are just in time for the S5, which goes on sale across the world on Friday, 11 April.

Samsung plans to stick its name on a multitude of shops operated by high street phone-slingers and retail rivals Phones 4U and Carphone Warehouse.


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Phones 4U already runs Samsung-branded shops in London, and will open 15 more in the UK. Carphone Warehouse will open 60 stores across Britain, Ireland, Germany, Spain, Portugal, Sweden and the Netherlands.

The first stores opening today are run by Carphone Warehouse and are located in Bournemouth, Bradford, Cardiff, Liverpool, Manchester, and Newcastle, and on Oxford Street in London.

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An analysis by Nikkei Electronics has confirmed that the processor inside Apple’s iPhone 5S is made by Samsung, confirming the warring companies’ ongoing relationship.

The iPhone 5S’s Apple-designed, Samsung-made A7 chipset.
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First discovered by Chipworks and iFixit soon after the iPhone 5S’s launch, the Nikkei Electronics results show that the iPhone 5S is using a system-on-chip manufactured using Samsung’s latest production processes, despite the ongoing legal stoushes between the two mobile giants.

According to Nikkei, the Samsung-made chip is constructed using a 28-nanometre process, one generation ahead of the 32-nanometre process used in the Apple A6, also manufactured by Samsung and used in the iPhone 5. The A7 uses a dual-core CPU and a quad-core GPU.

While Samsung is building the chips for the iPhone 5S, Apple is looking elsewhere for its future processor production. A source told CNET that the Cupertino, California-based company is developing its relationship and working with Taiwan Semiconductor Manufacturing Company (TSMC), the largest chip-maker in the world.

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A Samsung-made Google Nexus Two will launch on 8 November and be sold exclusively through the Carphone Warehouse, if various reports this week are to be believed.

The first suggestion of a sequel to the Google Nexus One was from London free paper City AM, which reported an ‘industry source’ saying the second Google phone will hit the UK before Christmas, and only be available from Carphone. It said the phone was expected to run the new version of Android, Gingerbread, and that “rumours surrounding a Samsung model are believed to be untrue”.

A day later, however, Android and Me confused matters with a post suggesting Samsung was building the Google Nexus Two, and it would be launched at a press conference on 8 November — a week on Monday. The blog agreed the Carphone Warehouse would be the exclusive retailer.

Popular gadget blog Gizmodo backed this up, going as far as to suggest that ‘a friend’ had played with the Nexus Two, and it looked very similar to the Galaxy S. The Nexus Two apparently has a 4-inch AMOLED screen, a curved back and a front-facing camera.

This contradicts what Google boss Eric Schmidt told the Telegraph
in July. “The idea a year and a half ago was to do the Nexus One to try
to move the phone platform hardware business forward. It clearly did.
It was so successful, we didn’t have to do a second one,” he said, as the Nexus One was discontinued.

The Nexus One was the first phone to come with Android 2.1 software, with the hardware provided by HTC. Its Android OS was pure, with no user interface skin like the manufacturer-branded phones. While Samsung did a bang-up job with the Galaxy S hardware, as our four-star review shows, its proprietary software was rather annoying. The Nexus Two could be the best of both worlds.

An unsullied Google-branded version of Android also has the huge advantage of being updated as soon as it’s ready, rather than waiting for manufacturers and networks to update their skins.

We’ve already seen some of the extra features Gingerbread will give to Android phones, but we were surprised to hear Google could be using the Samsung Galaxy S as the template for its new flagship device. It’s a good phone certainly, but we rather hoped something new and Earth-shatteringly different would be the first to run Gingerbread. What do you think?

Image credit: Gizmodo

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