Macworld has a great collection of quotes from different experts offering their opinions on the Cisco and Apple settlement. The general consensus appears to be that Apple won by a landslide, and we found this quote particularly humorous:

The rule in Silicon Valley is that if Apple leaves the table smiling, the other guy got screwed,” said Rob Enderle, an independent analyst and principal of the Enderle Group. “And Apple left the table smiling on this one.

MacDailyNews keeps up their highly-entertaining stream of quotes from iPhone rivals followed by their own analyses, this time with the head head of Palm weighing in.

By way of Gizmodo, we found this hilarious brick-style cell phone with modern features. Imagine a cell phone from years ago–giant external antenna and all–but with a color LCD, MP3 ringtone support, a GSM SIM slot, and other modern niceties. All in a package that won’t quite fit into your Member’s Only jacket. Outstanding.

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