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
So, it’s Nokia. Sensible to rebrand I suppose.
It’s not.
It’s a Chinese corporation wearing the dead skin of the former Nokia.
They’ve lost the engineers and definitely with the change in ownership they’ve lost the values once may have had.
Nokia used to manufacture in Salo, a city some 100km from Helsinki. I was working at a taxi dispatch center back then. Literally almost every 10 calls would have a taxi ordered to Nokia Visitor Centre. Sometimes like a third of the calls during busy hours.
Fast forward three years the manufacture has largely moved and the city is in trouble. Fast forward another ten to now and the city is dead. No work, no housing market nothing sells, stores dead. Unemployment was 20% in 2015.
I don’t believe it’s in any ways equivalent to the former Nokia.
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
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.
