After Oppo and OnePlus stopped gross sales in Germany final summer time, following a lawsuit from Nokia, vivo is now closing down its on-line retailer as nicely. Again in April, the German courtroom dominated in favor of Nokia as vivo has apparently infringed a Nokia patent associated to the WLAN connections in vivo’s smartphones. The identical purpose why Oppo and OnePlus needed to briefly pull out from the German market.
With out a lot of a warning, vivo’s web site is now closed and German customers can now not purchase a vivo smartphone within the nation. The German department now greets you with a brief assertion that vivo’s merchandise will not be accessible in the mean time, however current vivo smartphone house owners will nonetheless get customer support and software program updates.
Notably, the patent lawsuit comes from the Finnish department of Nokia associated to the gear provider and never HMD World, which now runs Nokia’s smartphone enterprise.
