Could someone please tell me where this phone is manufactured? I'm seriously considering it and it will come down to which company hasn't outsourced manufacturing to the lowest bidder. Thanks!
Nokia N95? Where is it made?
Anyone?
Mostly China, though don't think for a second that Finland or anywhere else can do it any better than the Chinese. Aside from the Assembled in or made in Finland sticker, which has very little actual meaning, the guts of the phone will still be made in China, Taiwan, the Philippines, Japan, Malaysia, or anywhere else that semiconductors are commonly mass produced. Plastic injection moulders are the same on both sides of the world, raw materials are also chemically identical.
It comes down to bragging rights only, these days the phones are identical no matter where they are made. The lowest bidder is a bit of a myth too - product quality matters as far as it helps the bottom line, Nokia will buy parts and materials at the levels and professionalism required for consumer expectations of the end product and price points.
Aside from that, I quite like the thought of some hot asian factory drone squiggling their OK on the little QC sticker. Asia rocks. Hot naked tribal chicks do too, though they are more difficult to find.
dchky wrote:Mostly China, though don't think for a second that Finland or anywhere else can do it any better than the Chinese.
Well, let's not compare the average quality of Finnish and Chinese products 😉 (NO offence intended towards the Chinese, of course... but Finland, after all, is a Scandinavian country, comparable to Japan when it comes to quality control.)
Mine (T-Mo UK) has the "Made in Finland" sticker. Rock solid device, no slider or any other problems.
(Some?) parts of it, however, may indeed have been manufactured in China - dunno.
Ok thanks, good to see Nokia still using high-quality European manufacturing. I consider European goods higher quality than Japanese, particularly Scandinavian and German products.