Nokia to close its Romanian factory by the end of the year

29 September, 2011
No more "Made in Romania" phones, Nokia is closing its factory there, leaving 2200 people unemployed.

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  • pit
  • LHj
  • 29 Sep 2011

Poor Nokia and Nokia fan boys ...I can see only dust.

    • q
    • q8phantom
    • d%q
    • 29 Sep 2011

    [deleted post]Maybe it's dead in Kuwait, but not everywhere, also, don't know the future, at least if it's dead, the N9 is a real great phone!

      • S
      • Shahzad
      • KIY
      • 29 Sep 2011

      Come on nokia......wake up u old fallow......GET ANDROID.. again be young and strong....

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        • MEA user
        • 3JF
        • 29 Sep 2011

        [deleted post]Well, i see this as positive news more of negative... the whole restructuring, even in MEA Region is for a reason, mainly cost saving initatives... the finnish bear has woke up :) even bit late but stil better than never..

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          • AnonD-15246
          • 0Ut
          • 29 Sep 2011

          that's a dumb decision.Romanians are really inventive, so I guess you're just loosing ground dumb Nokia :)

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            • Anonymous
            • svk
            • 29 Sep 2011

            [deleted post]N9 is actually Maemo.

              • V
              • Vic
              • F%J
              • 29 Sep 2011

              Nokia either need a strong person who can vision the future or sell the company to Microsoft.

              I wish Symbian gets the goodness of Microsoft Productivity and UI like Andriod. I wish to see you live longer Nokia..

                • ?
                • Anonymous
                • 0nd
                • 29 Sep 2011

                "Nokia promises to help those people find new jobs though." - good one!

                  • ?
                  • Anonymous
                  • Nhn
                  • 29 Sep 2011

                  [deleted post]"You love this news",what about all the people that will be losing their jobs and income and you lauphing and have the nerve to say you love this news.You should be ashamed of yourself.

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                    • AnonD-8044
                    • nFe
                    • 29 Sep 2011

                    [deleted post]I dont have to deal with it,meego is alive and am getting N9 somehow even if i have to import it to UK.You say you hate Apple but you have proved you hate Nokia too..You also hate lg and Samsung and BB you definatly hate S/E from all your comments on other forums..So why do you bother with gsmarena if you hate smartfones/mobile fones??

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                      • AnonD-8044
                      • nFe
                      • 29 Sep 2011

                      [deleted post]Little child of the forum its bedtime..

                      Everyone has a right to argue as long as its a valid point and true..Its when things are so far fetched and untrue that it gets unfair..You can make assumptions and forecasts but not fairy storys and outright lies..Meego is the most poerfull computing platform of all the O/S .

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                        • Anonymous
                        • 9CH
                        • 29 Sep 2011

                        nokia come on ! befor two days i get samsung galaxy s PLUS :-) yes it is fast and it has great applictions :-) . but i am sure symbian belle is better than android only symbian belle missing high space and great applictions . like YOUTUBE skYpE video call.00.

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                          • asas
                          • t7X
                          • 29 Sep 2011

                          ctzn of Cluj #2, 29 Sep 2011for me, Nokia doesn't exist anymore!, i'll stop buying this... moreFor you nokia doesn't exist anymore??? So you should just ignore any article regarding nokia in the 1st place, don't you?? Then why did you comment on a news article regarding a company which is, for you, doesn't exist anymore? Think of it man! Lol! You are so funny, funny, funny!! Haha!

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                            • AnonD-8044
                            • nFe
                            • 29 Sep 2011

                            Nokia/Microsoft make money by doing nothing at all,

                            http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/business-15106889

                            So thats nokia, microsoft, apple against samsung/htc.HTc is very low in monetry worth and samsung has its fingers in many pies..By this i mean appl and microsofts wealth alone could buy out sammy and htc and rule the smartfone world..

                            Just one thing,,please get rid of android its just going to trip up on itself..If it takes dualcore 1.2GHZ proccessors and 1 GB of RAM and a potent MALI GPU to get the smoothness of iphone 4 with single core and 512MB RAM then the O/S is lazy and very corruptable..Android will fail in 2 years gauranteed and W7,BB and IOS will succeed with a resurgence in symbian belle and Meego will be the O/S of next 5years.

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                              • AnonD-1082
                              • kJX
                              • 29 Sep 2011

                              Nokia is closing its Romanian factory and will open up a new factory in Vietnam next year. Nokia is just doing what is right and it would save them money in the long run. This article is biased against Nokia and portrays Nokia as slowly dying when it's not. I bet this article was written by an Android fanboy.

                              http://www.telecomistan.com/2011/03/nokia-to-open-new-factory-in-vietnam/

                              Nokia will rise again and they will be making a major comeback similar to what Apple did last decade. Nokia will be the Apple of this decade and will single handedly cause Android's decline with its WP lineup.

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                                • AnonD-8044
                                • nFe
                                • 29 Sep 2011

                                Nokia still sell millions of fones a day,,its all in your heads that nokias a gonna.Plus only a few hundred people use gsmarena so out of 5billion people your silly comments wont ever get heard,,nones interested..Nokia is far from dead its just in transition just like all firms go through..

                                and soon "i need to argue" will get banned of this site,,how can you be on everyones side yet hate every company..As your name suggests you are a stirrer and the world hates stirrers and i cannot put the name of what you suffer from here on this forum. You stifle ideas and help by descending the forum into arguments which helps no-one trying to get help or answers.

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                                  • AnonD-1166
                                  • 3cY
                                  • 29 Sep 2011

                                  Why close a factory in the country where nokia is the market leader? The windows move was very stupid. I hate winaows on my computer, why use it on my phone?! I was thinking of buying a nokia n9 but now i wont. I had over the past 10 years 8 nokia phones and liked only 3 of them, largly beacouse of the battery lifetime. I was a nokia fan but when i bought my first android device in february i was blown away by the distance between the os's. hate you nokia for ruining my day.

                                    • r
                                    • random guy
                                    • 39k
                                    • 29 Sep 2011

                                    [deleted post]kid, do you understand THIS is not about some fanboy stuff, 3500 PEOPLE will be on the street, without a job, you like that too?

                                    pathetic!

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                                      • alumni
                                      • 0Um
                                      • 29 Sep 2011

                                      This was an expected move from Nokia. They were producing low-cost phones for underdeveloped countries. There was no point of doing this anymore since the prices of smartphones are dropping lower and lower and producing a smartphone becomes cheaper than a normal phone.
                                      According to the financial daily "Capital", the plant will be taken over by Huawei, Ericsson, Dell or IBM:
                                      http://www.capital.ro/detalii-articole/stiri/afla-ce-companie-ar-putea-veni-in-locul-nokia-la-cluj-153740.html

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                                        • Anonymous
                                        • mw5
                                        • 29 Sep 2011

                                        What they wait to fire this incapable of ceo too with all his mafia from microsoft