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[durnygbur]

Nokia licensed their mobile brand and now it's some Chinese producer slapping the logo on the devices. Probably on pair with Xiaomi and Huawei.

[commoner → durnygbur]

I don't think this is accurate. Microsoft acquired Nokia in 2014, but then spun off the brand to HMD Global (a new Finnish company) in 2017. HMD and Foxconn have a partnership in which both companies co-design the Nokia phones that are then manufactured by Foxconn in Taiwan.

https://www.anandtech.com/show/10879/hmd-closes-nokia-brand-...

[summm → durnygbur]

probably below Xiaomi even: they promised an open bootloader once, but broke that promise and every bootloader after that was fully locked up.