iSuppli, of all companies — you know, the teardown people — is reporting that Nokia has stopped using outside contractors altogether for manufacturing its hardware. Nokia has always had a good deal of in-house manufacturing capability, but certain products — including its upcoming MID, allegedly — have been contracted out to ODMs like Foxconn and its contemporaries, so this calls a whole slew of initiatives into question. Notably, many of its recent CDMA devices are made outside of Nokia proper, so we’ve got to wonder — does this mean they’ll be taking up the slack internally, or is CDMA once again on the outs for these guys? See iSuppli’s full press release after the break.
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