Meizu in trouble... with M8 at Cebit / Hannover

gkai · 03-05-2008

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Originally Posted by chengdude

That wouldn't be a surprise; SISVEL is notorious for chasing down anyone they think is violating the patents they are charged with enforcing. They've gone after SanDisk on German soil before.

Thanks for clarification

This makes much more sense than iPhone plagiarism...
And it is probably limited to non-M8 player, as I guess mp3 patent will be included implicitely into WinCE6...LOL, I guess it is not good news for Meizu, but also for CEBIT: the number of exhibitor may decrease even more next year, I guess other european consumer electronic shows should rejoice

my zoo · 03-05-2008

Good news:

Meizu has opened their booth again (showing the m8).

a meizu manager told the german press, that they have trouble because of licenses for an mp3 player (which had to be removed).

Source (german):

heise online - CeBIT special - Polizeiaktion gegen mutmaÃŸliche Produktpiraten [Update]

nice2know_u · 03-05-2008

Thank God!

But what mp3 player? Interesting...

kadajawi · 03-05-2008

Guess M3 or M6.

@tangmu: What now, will you still stay away from CeBIT or will you go there, now that they stay?

roelandb · 03-05-2008

can somebody make a higher resolution video of the m8 prototype, instead of the bad quality youtube video?

nice2know_u · 03-05-2008

LOL, it would be a little weird if it's the M3 or M6 after one or two years of the release :D

Pytak · 03-05-2008

The M7!
...but wait, there was no M7 on the expo...

Yeeze · 03-05-2008

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Eine Managerin von Meizu sagte inzwischen der dpa, bei der Polizeiaktion sei es nicht um das Handy, sondern um ein anderes Gerät der Firma – einen tragbaren MP3-Player – gegangen. [...] Am späten Nachmittag war der Messestand der Firma wieder besetzt, Mitarbeiter stellten auch das Smartphone wieder vor, nicht jedoch den MP3-Player.

This says: A Meizu manager told the press, the raid was not because of the smart phone but because of a portable mp3 player. In the late afternoon the booth was opened up again and the smart phone was presented again but not the mp3 player.

So it must be because of one of Meizu's mp3 players, I think they had earlier series of mp3 players.. My guess would be they had them there too and had problems related to licensing mp3 licenses... Just my thoughts though...