Made By Nokia <-----> Made In xxxxxx

[mindhacker]

Hey.
I've been buying Nokia phones for years, and I don't have ANY idea what is the difference between Made by Nokia cellphones and Made in Finland, Germany, Hungary, etc.

Help? :)

[quartus]

It´s stands Made in Finland, Germany, Hungary etc. when the phone is made in one of these countries and it says Made by Nokia cellphones when the phone is made by children in Africa and Asia...
No, actually I don´t know. Maybe it is some laws regulating that kind of thing.

[ipodee]

made by nokia = made in china, dunno why nokia wont put china

[zalameh1]

Originally posted by ipodee
made by nokia = made in china, dunno why nokia wont put china
well its kinda obvious why they dont put "MADE IN CHINA" .. since everyone thinks that made in china stuff are really cheap...

[ipodee]

Originally posted by zalameh1
well its kinda obvious why they dont put "MADE IN CHINA" .. since everyone thinks that made in china stuff are really cheap... they are, anything made in china by exploiting the cheap labor there ... and marked up incredibly high. doesnt really matter

[know future]

if there weren't any clothes Made in China, most people in Australia would be walking around naked :)

[Mainframe AI]

Originally posted by know future
if there weren't any clothes Made in China, most people in Australia would be walking around naked :)


damn china

[TheZodiac]

it says nokia because they dont out-source their manufacturing I would guess... they own the plants - weather in an asian country or not... and actually make most of the phones that arent Moto's sonys and I believe one other company or two that fail to enter my brain this morning :)

[Dynamoo]

Our company sells a lot of the components that Nokia use to make phones (although I don't deal with Nokia myself). Their main plant is at Salo in Finland, and I understand there are operations in Germany, Hungary, Mexico, Brazil, China and South Korea.

A quick poll of the two Nokias I have about the place are that one is Finnish, the other German.

Nokia is an important employer in Finland.. I think the political consquences of ever shutting down production there would be very unpleasant indeed.

[kristof.vanriet]

the 7200 and the 6255 are made as ODM in Korea (the same factory that makes the other mostly unknown clamshells for Korea), so they outsource sometime, invisting in a new plant cost a lot.

[kristof.vanriet]

Max Wang, Taipei; Chinmei Sung, DigiTimes.com [Monday 21 April 2003]


Nokia was recently rumored to have chosen a mobile phone maker as its first Taiwanese ODM outsourcing partner. Companies on the final list were Arima Communication, BenQ, Compal Communications and Quanta Computer.

Nokia and all four Taiwanese companies denied the news.

The deal was said to involve two clamshell phones, which the Finnish vendor has yet to introduce, with a launch time likely to fall in the first half of next year.

BenQ and Quanta are the two front-runners, but most speculation went to Quanta and ruled out BenQ, citing Quanta’s experience in developing fold-up handsets and BenQ’s close partnership with Motorola. Quanta has been shipping the 8008 clamshell handset for Siemens and is likely to begin shipping a camera phone, also in a clamshell design, for Germany-based T-Mobile International next month.

Nokia outsources only 15-20% of its phone manufacturing.

[ErikInUSA]

kristof.vanriet :

Your comments about process of Nokia choosing an "ODM" are interesting, and I'm tempted to think you have some inside information since you use term I hear is preferred by the Finns, "ODM,” instead of the more commonly used outside Nok: "OEM."


However,

"..the 7200 and the 6255 are made as ODM in Korea "

Is absolutely untrue, and you wrote that with such confidence.

I hear on the street that Telsin did make a short-lived flip branded by Nokia to sell in South Korea. Nokia also had an ODM do a flip in Japan that was short-lived.

Someone comments Nokia “owns” all the factories in which it makes phones, even in Asia. This is not true with respect to some Asia factories, which is public information in the Nok financial reports.

Comments on other posts:

Regarding the "Made in XXXX" I'm surprised nobody has stated the well-known reason behind this. Most countries' tariff laws require products to state country-of-origin. Regarding putting something other than “Made in China” on a Chinese factory-originated Nokia phone, that would be very illegal in every country Nokia does business and you can be very sure Nok does follow such laws.

I see some posters implying that 6255 is evolution of 7200. This is not the word-on-the-street. One is CDMA and other is GSM and besides a little birdie told me each originated from a separate design center, located on different continents.

[cdover]

@ErikInUSA

No chirping? No 'birdies'?

[ErikInUSA]

*chirp*
*chirp*

[smilewarrior]

Help please. My sister just bought a finland "eurasian" nokia 6600. According to the dealer (ABC store) it's a phone made in Finland mean't to be sold in China. ( I can't understand why they try to sell these type of phones in the Philippines, is it because it's cheaper?). Just after 24 hours, the phone hanged and she had to have the phone's OS fixed. According to dealer, bugs in the Nokia 6600's system caused this. Have you guys also experienced this?

We were also warned to make sure that the phone's memory capacity is not used up or the phone will also hang. Is this true?

The phone's pc suite is in Chinese with no option to convert it to English. We'll probably have to resort to downloading the pc suite from nokia's website.

[6600]

Mine's MADE IN FINLAND!!!:D

[mindhacker]

Nokia 6600: 2 cases
1) MADE IN FINLAND, 0 issues, everything work perfectly.
2) MADE BY NOKIA, usually built in low cost countries like China, alot of bugs, reboots, and general UI problems.

[fox]

don't forget

3)made in finland, a lot of bugs, reboots, and general UI problems

this is what most people have!

:D