Another finn wote about an urban legend:

Actually I am not sure I would want to credit this to my countrymen, RAZR is actually not that great of a phone... But the urban legend is out there - from quite reliable sources - that the Motorola RAZR technical hardware design was originally done in Heinola, Finland at the facilities of a global contract designer-manufacturer Flextronics. The design was then offered to Nokia who refused it mainly based on logistical problems associated with the manufacturing process for this type of a slim design where the components are stacked one after the other horizontally. After that Motorola saw the light and picked up the design, raising certainly some eyebrows in the Nokia organization.

Urban legend or not, but Flextronic has never had an office or factory in Heinola (in Finland though).

tags: nokia

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