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[โ€“] laz@lemmy.dbzer0.com 12 points 3 weeks ago (1 children)
[โ€“] MiDaBa@lemmy.ml 8 points 3 weeks ago (3 children)

HMD is Chinese but owns a lot of former Nokia intellectual property that was related to is phones. (NOKIA had a lot of other business assets that they didn't buy)

[โ€“] vaionko@sopuli.xyz 8 points 3 weeks ago

They are headquartered in Finland

[โ€“] SkunkWorkz@lemmy.world 5 points 3 weeks ago

HMD is founded by a former Nokia exec called Jean-Francois Baril. A French man. And the company is operated out of Finland. So if HMD is Chinese, because they manufacture in China, then every phone maker is Chinese.

[โ€“] ripcord@lemmy.world 3 points 3 weeks ago

I may be missing it, but I see no evidence that they are Chinese, other than using Foxconn manufacturing.