HMD to begin manufacturing Nokia phones in Europe from Q3 of 2023
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Anonymous, 27 Feb 2023You think only hardware is important but software is just a... moreJust the other way!
HMD is a Finland based company, partly owned by Nokia Corp., that has granted a license to use the Nokia name on the HMD phones.
HMD starts manufacturing in Europe Q3 -23.
Read the details here: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/HMD_Global
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- 04 Sep 2023
AnonD-1037771, 27 Feb 2023But buying a Nokia phone doesn't support the European ... moreHMD is a Finnish company, with headquarters in Espoo near Helsinki, Finland.
Nokia has a major stake in HMD.
The first Made In Europe-Nokias are going to be launched Q3 2023.
Please read more here: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/HMD_Global
It is an illusion that Samsungs would be made in Korea, or iPhones in the US.
For what I read many Samsungs are made in Vietnam and practically all iPhones are made in China. Don't know about Sony.
Gigaset has several models that are made in Germany and is the only European manufacturer at the time of writing (Sept 4 -23).
In the unlikely case that I do not like the future European Nokias I'll go for Gigaset:
The phones get 5 years updates, are repairable and the battery can be easily replaced.
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- 17 Mar 2023
Made or assembled in Europe in electronics section , means financial agreement for taxes and others ,with each government for based facilities .Most of them provided in East Europe only in Poland ,Czech republic ,Slovakia ,Hungary (Nokia made phones there in the past) Nokia also made phones in the great past in Germany, Finland with same conditions.
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- 10 Mar 2023
Dj , 28 Feb 2023Nokia we want 5.9inch display size phone with qualcomm cpu.... moreForget it that HMD is going to make a flagship device anytime soon
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- 02 Mar 2023
Carol, 26 Feb 2023I can understand that everyone here is winning about the cp... moreLol, you call that "superior in every way" 🤣
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- 01 Mar 2023
AnonD-1037771, 27 Feb 2023But buying a Nokia phone doesn't support the European ... moreSamsung is mostly owned by Chinese people and they also make stuff in China. Korea is just a tag these days. Kind of like Nokia. These days no matter which phone you buy, you support the Chinese economy.
I don't care where the phones are made, if I am paying more then quality is my first priority.
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- 28 Feb 2023
Nokia we want 5.9inch display size phone with qualcomm cpu.
What about the price range and software support ?. We like 5years security updates only and 1 year os upgrade also.
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- 27 Feb 2023
AnonD-1037771, 27 Feb 2023But buying a Nokia phone doesn't support the European ... moreHmd chinesee. Great knowledge
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- 27 Feb 2023
hmm, 26 Feb 2023Your talking about ancient history when there was only bran... moreWe were asking for "Made in Finland" Nokia phones because there were TONS of chines replicas. A friend of mine actually bought one from Vodafone and asked me to update the software. The moment I tried it, the phone died. I sent it to service center and guess what I was told: stop buying chines replica phones
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- 27 Feb 2023
Anonymous, 26 Feb 2023I will. It's time to start using your money to show th... moreBut buying a Nokia phone doesn't support the European economy, it supports the chinese one. Better go buy Samsung, Apple or Sony. That's how you hurt them: By buying from the competition (which is not chinese)
The real Nokia doesn't make smartphones anymore - HMD does - which is chinese. The real Nokia makes telecommunications system etc, not smartphones.
And yeah, I'd also pay more for a smartphone made 100% in Europe by European /American/South Korean/Japanese brands.
I used to not care about where a product is made, but now I spend tons of time checking every single product that I want to purchase from any kind of store. That includes software too.
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- 27 Feb 2023
Not every european country is a developed nation, lot of east european nation have lower income than China.
Imagine paying 800 Euro for Nokia with Unisoc chip, and it was made from Albania/Moldova, only for "European" label.
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- 27 Feb 2023
Carol, 26 Feb 2023Custom ROM's do not împress, and apparently not to man... moreYou think only hardware is important but software is just as important. Google copied most of the features from custom ROMs. They would just go to XDA and copy stuff year after year. Sort of like freeloading or maybe even stealing. Apple did the same with Cydia but that is another thing. Technically speaking, Xiaomi has done more for Android than Nokia ever will since the OS is not changing much these days.
HMD is not a sister brand, it is more like mother. It owns Nokia and the only thing left of the old Nokia is the name. HMD also got the website when they bought the name.
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- 27 Feb 2023
Sinnaoi, 26 Feb 2023You are the one who is in serious need of geography lessons. Geographically speaking, Europe and Asia are one continent divided by culture.
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- 27 Feb 2023
hmm, 26 Feb 2023Do you know what continent means ? Since when China is not... moreMan china is china iwas speaking about Europe not Asia.
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- 27 Feb 2023
AnonD-1037771, 26 Feb 2023Except for the brand name, there's nothing Nokia about... moreMan Nokia is still Finnish company as they always was even 170 years ago when they began as a company to use and manufacture from wood.
And HMD is chinese and Foxconn is making out of the two third which produce phones.
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- 26 Feb 2023
Anonymous, 26 Feb 2023Actually Xiaomi does have a history as far as software is c... moreCustom ROM's do not împress, and apparently not to many were impressed. hmd might not be the original nokia as a company, but their backbone and support comes from original nokia. Hack even if you want to buy a nokia phone direct from "manufacturer" you will be able to buy on nokia official site only, suport repairing troubleshooting are on official nokia website to be found. So yeah, nokia is still behing it all and hmd is just sister brand. I dare to say, that hmd was made to protect nokia assets in case of bankruptcy, so it cannot affect the "mothership" incomings no matter what happens.
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- 26 Feb 2023
hmm, 26 Feb 2023You reply to the most biggest fan of Nokia on this page and... moreFan does not mean, m. And am not the biggest fan, i am tough one of the most here who can think for himself, also one of those who do not buy devices based on hardware only. Also, i mostly answer aggresive to idi...if somebody really has something to say, i can agree, disagree or agree to disagree.
Anyways i presume that the prices won't go up very much, EU maybe will support their initiative, so i presume that, at least at the biginning they will get some serious tax subventions. A device like x30 would probably cost about 630euros, still ok minding the fact that this is how it should have been, and not how it is right now. With most of chinese brands apple or samsung. People need to start to learn to appreciate what they have and not make everything a piece of garbage in half a year.
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- 26 Feb 2023
Anonymous, 26 Feb 2023If they moved away from china then they will double their a... moreMinding the fact that the prices are between 480$ and 530$ is more like almost 500 dollars, and not almost 600 as you claim.
And if the prices go up by 100 i have nothing against it, i would still like to support their strategy. If Fairphone can survive with way less sales, so can hmd. Even tough am pretty much sure that they won't build the devices in Germany or Finland, more like Hungary or Romania, where the people are still better paid then in china, but not that good as in Germany. But well, one never knows. I wish them all the best and to stay strong and relevant, would make me very sad to only be able to only chose betwenn chinese (mostly garbage) brands or google. So i myself give them all the support i can,
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- 26 Feb 2023
hmm, 26 Feb 2023Do you know what continent means ? Since when China is not... moreYou are the one who is in serious need of geography lessons.
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- 26 Feb 2023
Anonymous, 26 Feb 2023If they moved away from china then they will double their a... moreYou reply to the most biggest fan of Nokia on this page and expect anything realistic from him ?
The amount you need to pay for worker in EU is like 5 times more then in China plus all the tax for everything. People move to produce there product to China so they get profit for there product as thanks to local work standards and how much you need to pay for workers and everything like that make the product cost so much that you cant get much profit from there.
With there moto with reusable materials are used for the phone that is more expensive cause it's not cheap to reuse plastic and all the process that goes to make it. Now move to EU and Nokia be next Apple with there prices but give you total trash for it. From Chinese brands you get 2 flagship hardware phones while from Nokia you get maybe 1 middle class hardware phone for the same money