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Nokia preventing multi-users on Android smartphones?

article published on 30 October, 2012

Is Nokia patent limiting multiple users to tablets? TechCrunch has an interesting write-up about the limitation on the use of multiple accounts with Android Jelly Bean 4.2. It muses that a patent held by Nokia may have forced the feature to be limited to tablets, and not become available for smartphones. The "Multi-user mobile telephone" patent describes a mobile device "designed to ... [ read the full article ]

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pmshah
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_ 		2. November 2012 @ 00:28 _ Link to this message    Send private message to this user   
Are they talking about something like different user accounts on your desktops / laptops with different configurations and application access ?

You are sadly mistaken about a family sharing a single mobile phone in third world countries. The prices are so ridiculously low, sim cards free and the service so cheap that except for homeless people everyone can afford their own. I can buy a monochrome Nokia phone for under US $ 20/= and get 1 year all incoming free + about 90 minutes of talk time for US$ 2/= per year.
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