Kodak gets Boeing and friends to fire a rocket at the moon with a Kodak flag on board, then sues NASA for "trespassing on their property since 1969 at least". That's the mentality of the patent barons.

that Kodak's patent IS infringed. You can find it here http://preview.tinyurl.com/yefhk5t and it specifically talks about using a custom ASIC for preview mode and a general purpose CPU for capturing stills. My guess would be that the iPhone uses the same GPU processing path for both stills and video preview. If it doesn't then it shouldn't be a hard job to make it so.

Their case may or may not have merit. If it does, things could go badly for Apple and RIM. Unlike RAMBUS, SCO and a few others I could mention, I don't remember Kodak being prone to filing silly, baseless lawsuits or motions.

Too late. I already have my Blackberry and I'm not giving it up. Sue away, Kodak. Every cell phone has a digital camera now. You going to sue everyone and claim that you invented the digital camera? Good luck with that.