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Kodak, one of the biggest names in the digital imaging game, has just inked a deal with Nokia to cross-license each other’s patent portfolios. The deal wasn’t exactly explained in the kind of detail that we’d prefer to see, but the patent cross-licensing deal apparently “provides significant benefits to both companies, [and] is royalty bearing to Kodak.”
Kodak recently put their name on the Motorola MotoZINE ZN5 5-megapixel cameraphone. Interestingly, Kodak only provided the camera control UI on the ZN5, with the actual image sensor sourced from a third party. Could this deal between Kodak and Nokia be the first steps toward a future Nokia cameraphone sporting Kodak image sensors? Could we see Kodak’s camera UI gracing the next generation of Nokia Nseries handsets?
Your guess is as good as ours.
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Will Park
Will hails from The City of Angels - Los Angeles, California. He spends his time playing with his numerous gadgets and looking forward to seeing what future holds for mobile technology. An avid promoter of a fully "digital" life, he promotes the widespread adoption of truly mobile, paper-less living. He dreams of the day when he can go completely digital. No more snail mail, paper receipts, bound books, notepads/spiral notebooks, credit cards, hard currency. He's a digital warrior - fighting for the converged life. He is an idealist and a realist - he has a perfect view of what the world should be but knows that the world is not perfect. Can we ever hope to see Will's dream become reality? We'll see...
