Re: Not to state the obvious...
What I'd like to know, is who holds the patent (or is it a public standard) for TRRS connectors, and when did those come into existence, because in effect, that's what the patent is for... Is it not? Whether the port appeared on the phone should pretty much be irrelevant as taking a TRRS port and putting it on a phone hardly seems patent worthy and that would be grounds for smacking down the patent (obviousness). Worth noting though, is that I couldn't find a patent filed before 2006 with TRRS connectors mentioned explicitly as TRRS. Enough ramblings from me.
Biting the hand that feeds IT
