HMD Global is a smartphone and tablet company that surged from Nokia and now has smartphones and tablets. They outsource the manufacture mainly to China and India, but they are now starting to maufacture its 5G models in Europe: https://www.hmd.com/en_ae/press/hmd-begins-manufacturing-5g-smartphones-in-europe

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[–] [email protected] 10 points 1 week ago* (last edited 1 week ago) (3 children)

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

[–] [email protected] 9 points 1 week ago (1 children)

They indeed got the license from Nokia, but are Finnish themselves too

[–] [email protected] 2 points 1 week ago (1 children)

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

[–] [email protected] 5 points 1 week 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.

[–] [email protected] 5 points 1 week ago

HMD are Finnish. I think their phones are assembled in China but that's the case for many smartphones (e.g. iPhones).

However I noticed that some HMD phones use Unisoc CPUs, and Unisoc are Chinese. I don't know how much that matters. Other HMD phones use Qualcomm CPUs - Qualcomm are American.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 1 week ago* (last edited 1 week ago)

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.