Nokia – Quality Made in China

Many a times I get queries from my friends and readers about Nokia phones made in China .  My answer to them is Nokia made in China is as good as Nokia made in any European country . China is not the same since past decade , it’s now the manufacturing hub for big trusted brands like Sony , Panasonic , HP , Dell and even Apple   and is single handedly responsible of providing low cost quality electronics to the world . With it’s cheap and technological advanced labor and low operating costs China is able to drastically bring down the cost of production which would have been impossible given the exorbitant labor costs in the west resulting in an inexpensive quality product for the masses

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Nokia has also launched their largest manufacturing hub in Beijing China , environmental friendly built with 10 % recyclable material , 95 % areas accessible o sunlight Nokia China building is the Greenest building the world and has even won Large Office Category at Contract magazine’s 2009 Interiors Awards  along with the acclaimed Leadership in Energy and Environmental Design (LEED™) Gold Certificate by the United States Green Building Council      ,  We have already disucssed the building in detail at Nokia Proudly Made in China

Recently Nokia introduced a series of 4 Videos highlighting their Chinese operations , it’s Diversity , the quality of manufacturing , the design and creativity aspects and also the tests being conducted on mobile phones .  In many aspects the Nokia China facilities if not exceed are equivalent to their european counterparts and now is responsible for the Nokia’s mains smart phone portfolio including N97 ,  N97 Mini and  E72 to name a few .

The Videos are named

• Diversity
• Responsibility
• Innovation
• Reliability

and covers total Nokia operations in China in less than 3 min episodes

Diversity gives a brief glimpse of Nokia’s operations in China including their manufacturing and testing and shows different teams with different backgrounds working within the factory , people from FInland to India are all here making Nokia the no 1 Mobile company in the world

 

        

Responsibility -  shows Nokia’s commitment to the environment where ever they operate from environmental friendliness processes and designs to pooling their 20 major suppliers around their manufacturing plant to reduce carbon emission associated with long distance trucking and hauling,  even the parts are moved between plant to plant in a gas powered train vehicle and the waste is recycled .  It’s not only the plant where Nokia is going environmental friendliness , Nokia has recycle boxes at every Nokia Care center where consumers can drop off their unwanted accessories like outdated chargers and also phones and they are recycled .  The extent of this project –  Nokia collects about 30 Tons of phones and accessories to be recycled every year and with an average phone and accessory weighing a little more than a 100 gms that’s a lot of phones

 

Innovation ,  shows the latest in technology Nokia is employing to design their phones  from top of the line designers who are working round the clock to come up with innovative ideas to their Doodle Wall where designers can draw their designs to a 3D molding machine which could manufacture a dummy phone with exact specifications straight from the drawing board giving a physical outlook to what’s being seen on the screen .

Reliability -  The last of the series covers the quality aspects of Nokia phones , from Blue Jean test , where a phone is kept between Levis Dark Blue Denim and constantly moved in it to see the color rub out on phones to a machine whose job is to press every key on the phone thousands of times to check the keypad life .  Some tests are sadistic for a phone aficionado like me  like the heat test where phones are kept in high heat and cold conditions to check their operability in different environments to humid and saline conditions and the worst of all the high drop test , where a phone is dropped from a height to check it’s durability. The video gives me nightmares as they torture the phones but does enhances  the trust I have on all my Nokia phones

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Do watch the videos as they open up one of the finest , greenest and quality conscious plants in the world and if still in doubt just think the country which is now manufacturing Air Bus  , for them a quality phone is such a small feat