• Meldrik@lemmy.wtf
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    2 days ago

    I thought HMD Global was a Chinese company, that had “rented” the brand “Nokia” from the actual Nokia company?

    Edit: I am remembering completely wrong

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      I I recall well, while Finnish, most of the R&D, and of course the whole manufacturing process, was done in China. That how they got their “Chinese” reputation.

      I think it is undeserved, but it is also true that their smartphone got some annoying problems, like a very fragile usb-c port on my now defunct Nokia 8.1.

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        22 hours ago

        That’s quite interesting, I also assumed they were Chinese. Them being EU based should be a bigger deal

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          20 hours ago

          A subsidiary of Foxconn has a pretty big stake in HMD and are also the manufacturer. They’re Taiwanese, but that may explain it.