Nokia is huge. Everyone knows it's the world's largest mobile phone manufacturer, and so that automatically makes it huge. But how huge is huge? Well, try getting your head around these figures:

Nokia manufactures 1 million or so mobile phones a day. To do this, it must handle 275 million components every day - that's 100 billion individual components a year, managed across 10 manufacturing plants spread around the globe! 100 billion - now that's huge!


With different mobile phone operators demanding different spec'd phones, Nokia splits these components into those that go into a generic platform, called an 'engine', and those that go into custom-designed aspects of a phone that differentiate it from other models, and from other mobile operators.

Factor in the differences needed for software across the range of phones, and the different countries in which the phones are sold and their resultant different languages and cultural preferences, and the order of complexity of Nokia's entire operation is just mind-boggling.

What's even more amazing is that Nokia achieves all tihs itself - it outsources none of this process. Nokia....Finnish for huge and impressive, obviously!

[Source: Mobile Tech Today]

Original Source: Mobile Mentalism