Difference between N95 “Made by Nokia” and “Made in Finland”

Ever looked under the battery, while buying or after buying a nokia mobile. Well !! i always did … even before buying my N93, I told the shopkeeper

“If its not Made in Finland , I am not gonna buy this piece”

I always used to wonder this and most of you might have even guessed it correctly. “Made by Nokia” to my assumption was “Made in china “. And guess what .. its true. I read this article giving a nice comparison between Nokia n95 ; One “Made in Finland” and one “Made by Nokia” .

The article gives a quick facts between the two which are as follows.

• The "Made in Finland" model gets developed as it says in Finland Europe, while the "Made by NOKIA" in Hong Kong China.
• As stated the retail Box is different.
• Both models are coming with 1GB microSD card* (*some countries are excluded)
• The "Made by NOKIA" box includes a Nokia Case.
• also the "Made by NOKIA" box includes a Screen Protector.
• Both of them are coming with firmware version: v10.0.018 installed
• The "Made in Finland" model has the bug and doesn’t switch to "Silent" Profile when you press and hold the # key. "Made by NOKIA" model doesn’t have that problem. (Tested also with the latest firmware)
• Built Quality for the "Made in Finland" model is better. At least to our case. We notice that the "Made by NOKIA" models have a loose slider. "Made in Finland" models feels much more stable. Thats based in seven different devices three of them was "Made by NOKIA" and the other four was "Made in Finland". Only one Made in Finland has a noticeable loose slider.

Cover Difference

Model Difference

Article even states that the 5MP camera of the model “Made by Nokia” stopped working after some time. But since it was covered by warranty, he got the replacement.

One should be very careful while buying these high end mobiles by taking into consideration all these things . Many a times we dont check or just try to convince ourselves that these things hardly matters. You may find a price difference between “Made in Finland” and other makes upto nearly 50$ to 75$ in high end mobiles. But dont get carried away with that . After all its your hard earned money . So guys be careful about the make before buying any mobile and specially nokia’s.