Nokia ends phone assembly in Europe
 

Hardly surprising, sad anyway, Another European "manufacturer" leaves Europe for good and assembles phones solely in Asia.

For me it is just another reason to see Nokia as what is it, a large faceless corporation without soul.

Washington Post Article:
http://www.washingtonpost.com/busine...LyQ_story.html

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The "funny" part is that they think that relocating their assembly to Asia will make things right...

... as if they've lost all that market share just because the competition's assembly costs are lower :cool:

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I've always seen Nokia that way. Just the same as any other corporation. I've never understood the misty-eyed view of Nokia that some have.

The rich shaft the poor. That's the way it's always been, and always will be. Ordinary workers are paying the price for Nokia's strategic failures, whilst the people responsible are still in their cushy jobs. Same sh1t, different day.

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Not surprising especially since the 900 will be offered at $99 when it is released through at&t in a few months.

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This makes the transition to Tizen phones easier for me. I was reluctant to buy an Asian plastic phone because Nokia hardware was so much better quality.
Now that this might be no longer true, I may as well go for other plastic phones. Thanks Nokia!

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u think that roumanian workers are better payd as the assian ones?
i totally doubt that.
and if their cost with work in roumania it is because they hired a work plassament company, and they "lease" the workers from them. :)
so, just another method to steal some money from someone else, or... just bad management.

in two years i'm afraid that nokia will be so small, so small. and samsung will buy them.:(

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It's not so much the workers' salary, as the vast automated assembly and production lines the Chinese have set up all these years.

Noone can compete with them any more in speed and quality without skyrocketing the costs

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It's not even the workers costs alone, petty much all of Nokia's sub-contractors are in Asia, like every other manufacturer from Samsung, Apple, LG, SE etc etc.

It was matter of time.

Well you are going to get the Asian plastic phones from Tizen, if there will ever be anything.
Around 90% of Nokia phones where already made in Asia, so it's not like much is going to change from past 6 years.

At least 4 out of 6 Nokia major R&D hubs are in West, something you can't say about the other companies. And this soul talk is just funny. :D

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Lumia 800 is made in far east, the quality is 1:1 to N9...

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Lumia 800 is the worst phone since n97 and n97 mini.