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...more companies are coming around to Lheem's thinking. Near Hyundai's plant, Nokia opened the first phase of a $150 million mobile-phone factory in March. In the state of Orissa on India's east coast, South Korean steel giant Posco plans to construct a $12 billion mill. SemIndia, a company formed by chip-industry executives, will break ground in June on a $3 billion semiconductor factory in the southern state of Andhra Pradesh. Others are coming around, too. Dell Computer recently announced its intention to build a factory in India, joining those it already has in China...
...with the pace of reform accelerating, India is beginning to change in ways similar to those that helped China attract foreign investment in manufacturing. India's rising middle class means companies now see the country as an important source of consumer demand. India has joined China as one of Nokia's five largest markets. According to tech-consulting firm Gartner, mobile-phone sales in India grew 42% in 2005 to nearly 30 million units, and sales are expected to quadruple by 2009. With so much potential, Nokia decided India was the best option for a new factory. "We became eager...
...almost killed when his father learned his son was gay and invited a group to lynch the boy at his school. Months later, witnesses say, police egged on another mob that stabbed and stoned a gay man to death in Montego Bay. And this year a Kingston man, Nokia Cowan, drowned after a crowd shouting "batty boy" (a Jamaican epithet for homosexual) chased him off a pier. "Jamaica is the worst any of us has ever seen," says Rebecca Schleifer of the U.S.-based Human Rights Watch and author of a scathing report on the island's anti-gay hostility...
...website. The screen resolution is an impressive 800x480 pixels, which means if you have great eyesight you can see entire webpages across the 4-in. widescreen. If you're having trouble, fear not, for two buttons on top will zoom the picture in and out. Although Nokia clearly thought the screen issue through, it still represents a tradeoff...
...help you in other ways, too. If you don't have Wi-Fi access, but have a Bluetooth phone with a good data plan, you can easily connect the 770 to the Web through the phone. Right now, the 770 doesn't have any built-in telephony, but Nokia says that they will soon make it compatible with some voice-over IP services. When that's fully operational (and it could be any day now), a Bluetooth headset would come in handy...