[dhughes]

You would think Samsung could sue Apple for making a phone that plays music the Samsung SGH-M100 was released seven years before the iPhone.

I wanted a Samsung SGH-M100 so bad but there were rumours the battery would vet hot, swell up and possibly explode.

[yardie]

I believe that Ericsson and Nokia own a few patents on ringtones. A phone that plays music, like an MP3 player may not be all that patentable, but what counts as a novel idea now is really different than a decade ago.