VIDEO: Nokia N97 in factory action

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• I'm quite surprised at how 'hand made' these phones are, I personally thought they were pretty much entirely produced by robots nowadays? Posted by Martin, England
• I became interested in Nokia because of (1) a local news review of the Nokia 97n
  mobile 'phone. Also this week was (2) a news article in the Miami Herald about efforts to attract businesses to Mexico. The Nokia assembly plant at Renosa was an example of utilization of cheap labor for products shipped to NAFTA markets.
  
  Further, the DW-TV channel (WHDT - Miami) featured a video about a Nokia plant
  being closed in Germany, the operation being moved to rural Romania where labor is cheap. It described the work; mostly female workers, standing at their
  stations during a 12 hour shift.
  
  From what I see in the video shot a the Salo plant, the Nokia management has
  not invested a great amount of money in automated machinery. And the price in Miami for the 97n 'phone is US$699, sales tax not included. I conclude that this is a huge mark-up for the Nokia organization whose blueprint appears to be to
  create assembly points in cheap labor areas while marketing devices in the so-called "advanced areas" of the world.
  
  This appears to be very similar to the plan of the ill-fated Mexican economic development along that country's northern frontier with the United States.
  The problem is that it is un-sustainable in the long term. Posted by Michael Smith, USA