Compal and Nokia ...
"Lumia 800 was Compals doing, mostly because we wanted to get out of the phone quickly and they had the experience of Qualcomm’s chips We’ve always had a variable number of contract manufacturers, which are to ease the load, and also bring special expertise. ... Already the next Lumia 710 was made in a Nokia factory. There is nothing dramatic in this. We believe still that smartphones and basic phones in particular we will have advantage on our own production" – Niklas Savander, Nokia EVP: February 2011 - talouselama.fi
Zax,
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Compal manufactured the 1st lot of Nokia Lumia's (the Lumia 800) in October and into early November 2011. Compal had previously partnered with Nokia to ship Nokia's 1st 'Booklet' PC. As a supplier to Motorola they had manufacturing experience with PC boards and Qualcomm MSM's which Nokia had never used. I believe that final quality assurance and test as well as shipments to customers was handled by Nokia while they were readying, testing, debugging and documenting processes for their own production lines for WP7 Lumias at 3 of their own facilities (Beijing China, Masan South Korea, and Salo Finland, that manufactured Symbian smartphones and preparing for customer staging at 2 others (Komárom Hungary, and Reynosa Mexico).
Row upon row of the Nokia Lumia 800 being produced at various stages [in Salo:11/2011]
The Nokia Lumia 800 undergoing some checks [in Salo: 11/2011]
Tested, boxed and getting ready for shipment. [in Salo:11/2011]
Final assembly of the 2nd Lumia model to ship (the Lumia 710) was done in Nokia facilities. Those shipments started in December 2011. To the best of my knowledge the original Nokia 800 was the only Lumia manufactured by Compal which may produce some components or modules for Nokia.
Taiwan News is rather notorious for publishing misleading purported fact.
FT isn't, but some folk will be burned on the Huawei rumour they fueled which caused an unwarranted NOK1V/NOK pop earlier today, methinks.
- Eric - |
