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A comment on HMD Global Starts Manufacturing in Europe with the ‘Made in Hungary’ Nokia XR21.

Re:HMD Global Starts Manufacturing in Europe with the ‘Made ... by mimsee on Tuesday October 03, 2023 @07:43AM (#37750545)
I wonder where they've set the bar in terms of security. Are the phones 99% manufactured in China, but ship two pieces, screw them together and call it 'Made in EU'. Are the phones shipped in some tamper evident bags or have anti-interdiction like Librem 5[0]? Have they build any advanced security features for the phone, or is it mainly for ticking a box in some compliance 'yes yes, a local made phone'.

[0]: https://puri.sm/posts/anti-interdiction-on-the-librem-5-usa/

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Re:HMD Global Starts Manufacturing in Europe with the ‘Made ... by Maakuth on Tuesday October 03, 2023 @08:14AM (#37750833)
The current HMD models are being manufactured by Foxconn in China and there's also a wide range of Foxconn middleware running on the phones. Foxconn also has a factory in Hungary, so probably the manufacturing partner is the same for these European made models too. I don't know if there's any difference in the security posture.
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Re:HMD Global Starts Manufacturing in Europe with the ‘Made ... by adev_ on Tuesday October 03, 2023 @08:44AM (#37751117)
Foxconn is Taiwanese.

I would take Taiwanese hardware made on European ground over stuff made in the PRC anytime.

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Re:HMD Global Starts Manufacturing in Europe with the ‘Made ... by nwah1 on Tuesday October 03, 2023 @09:51AM (#37751931)
True, but Foxconn has factories in the PRC
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Re:HMD Global Starts Manufacturing in Europe with the ‘Made ... by stuaxo on Tuesday October 03, 2023 @08:47AM (#37751135)
The Nokia phones were "Android One" at least when the one I'm typing this was made so should be straightforward Android.

The main change I do is to use Niagara launcher and Firefox browser.

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Re:HMD Global Starts Manufacturing in Europe with the ‘Made ... by gen3 on Tuesday October 03, 2023 @10:58AM (#37752820)
Purism doesn't do anything to secure the connection between their supplier and themselves, so I don't think I would consider them the best example: https://www.reddit.com/r/Purism/comments/my8u2l/psa_librem_1...
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