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According to media reports, Nokia plans to invest about
150 million US dollars in this plant to manufacture mobile phone. In
addition, Motorola, Flextronics and Foxconn have plans to further
expand their production facilities in Chennai.Wintek
is scheduled to enter mass production by the fourth quarter of 2007 and
capacity will eventually reach nine million pieces per month.According
to DisplaySearch, Wintek was the leading supplier of MSTN displays and
was third in CSTNs in the second quarter of this year, shipping mainly
to Motorola and Nokia.Source: Digitimes
Building manufacturing facilities in an emerging market. Think about that for a second folks. You have workers going to their job at Nokia, making Nokia phones, so that their family can purchase … wait for it … Nokia phones. Smart business move.
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Stefan Constantinescu
Stefan Constantinescu (@WhatTheBit on Twitter) has loved technology since as far back as he can remember. It started with computers, but in the past few years his passion has turned to mobile devices. As a mobile phone enthusiast who lives and breathes devices that connect to the internet, he knows he is not alone with this radical fascination of all things wireless. He is strongly opinionated and enjoys a good debate so leave comments in his posts and he’ll get back to you! Stefan began blogging as a hobby in the fall of 2006 and joined IntoMobile in the summer of 2007. Later he got a job at Nokia in March 2008, but as of June 2009 he has rejoined the IntoMobile team. He is currently based out of Helsinki, Finland.
