Difference between Made By Nokia and Made in Finland E61

That was funny....

In terms of the actual question though, it seems to be as I suspected, plenty of valid educated theorizing about possible potential differences in build quality due to a myriad of imaginable factors, but nothing observably concrete to indicate that such a difference actually does exist, as opposed to could conceivably exist.

So I'll take that as the overall reality of the matter for the time being. If anyone ever actually does or has encountered anything solid on the subject I'd still love to hear it, but for now I'll assume all the light's been shed that can, and that the question's mostly hypothetical conjecture at this point.

All replies though (past and future) are much appreciated... and hopefully the thread stays open for additional contributions in the event that something of note on the subject comes to light.
 
I'm in the market for a new N73 and I'm shooting for a "Made in Finland" model just to humor the idea since my current N73 is "Made by Nokia". Should I find a decent priced N73 with the Finland tag, I'll post my findings regarding build quality or anything else.
 
Johnny, I would certainly be interested in hearing your observations on this matter if and when you do end up acquiring a second N73. Since posting my original message a little while back I've searched forums and done further checking into people's rationale for the Finland/Elsewhere speculations.

Let me tell you, finding anything substantial has been very challenging. Time and time again I'll go into threads on the subject and read reasons such as: "Well, you just know that in Nokia's home country they're going to take more pride in their product since it represents them as a nation", and "the Finland plant is located closer to Nokia's international headquarters, so they're probably overseeing manufacturing quality more carefully in that location." Plenty of entirely presumptive, speculative postulates that may or may not be true, but are based on nothing but the poster's wild-guess hypothesizing.

I've also seen equally facile arguments on the other side, such as "At a manufacturing plant in a country where the workers get beaten if they do a bad job, you are more assured that they will get every detail right." This to me all seems the equivalent of laymen trying to solve the entire Kennedy assasination case based on nothing but what they've seen in Hollywood movies. Very little fact, and an abundance of jumping to conclusions founded on extremely simplistic logic. Plenty of reasoning out why something might be the case, but nothing to suggest that it actually is.

Shorter people might naturally make better floor-repair tradesmen because they are already closer to the ground and can more easily see what they are doing... then again, they might not. Just a (potentially feasible) theory, but no factual evidence to back it up. Is there *anything* besides and beyond pure guesswork to this whole issue?

I would still like to leave this question open for any additional input anyone can offer. I'd also like to ask if anyone knows where this whole Finland/Elsewhere business originated in the first place. It seems so baseless yet has risen to such mythical, superstitious status and I can't imagine how it got off the ground in the first place. Did Paris Hilton make some kind of ridiculous comment at some point, and everyone else jumped on the bandwagon? I mean, I don't see too many posts comparing Sony Ericsson phones made in Japan versus those made in Australia... Siemens handsets made in the United Arab Emirates versus ones made in the Federated States of Micronesia. Please...

Where did all this stuff originate?
 
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