I just remembered Nokia recently finished a factory in Romania (yay, patriotism). Labor is not that cheap here though, so it may be just one of those last-mile places.
I see no problem with things made in china as long as they're made by serious companies. Keep in mind that while humans are just as incompetent anywhere, they're just cheaper in some parts of the world. Generally generic products by chinese companies are bad because they're badly designed, badly manufactured and badly quality-checked, all with cheapness in mind. When a big company comes in, they bring in their designs and make sure the chinese slav....aaa workers don't screw up

Yup it's the same way with Japanese cars in America. They're not produced in Japan and shipped over anymore, they're made right in the USA.

Nokia (in Finland) has told a Finnish magazine that the N900s are being produced in Korea. Pre-productions models were built in Finland (at Salo factory).

Link to the original article (in Finnish):
http://www.prosessori.fi/uutiset/uutinen2.asp?id=54649

and link to translated page:
http://translate.google.com/translat...istory_state0=

Nokia's factory workers in Finland are going on strike. Their union seems to be on warpath.

Good thing N900s weren't made over here, or the wait would have been even longer.

I thought the N900 was being made in far north Lapland, the north pole actually, by Santa's team of Elves... which is why they're a bit late to market due to global warming melting the snow and ice so that the elves' sledges couldn't get them to the factories.

I would prefer to support workers at Salo by purchasing devices made there instead of in China.

Well, that one was in Germany before (not a low cost country at all).

My 770 was from the factory at Bochum.

Kluj, Romania was much cheaper than Bochum, Germany.

Love the new avatar..nuknuksuksuk

if you search for 'Nokia TMC' in google maps you'll see the actual place of the factory where teh g00ds are nao.