Samsung Mobile President Shin Jong-kyun has said that the Galaxy Nexus smartphone, the first device to run on Android Ice Cream Sandwich, has avoided using technology contained within Apple’s patents. “Now we will avoid everything we can and take patents very seriously,” said Jong-kyun.

Samsung is expected to release the Galaxy S II smartphone in the U.S. next month according to Samsung’s president of mobile business and digital imageing Shin Jong-kyun. “We expect to release the Galaxy S2 in the U.S. market sometime in August,” stated Jong-kyun during a media briefing. Samsung launched the Galaxy S II in South Korea this past April. Then it was released in Japan and Europe shortly after. The Galaxy S II sold about 3 million units in under 2 months of the debut. [Yonhap News]