You can buy high bandwidth bridge controllers on street corners there…literally. This isn’t too far fetched.

This is where China’s attitude and disregard for intellectual property seems to help them and hurt us.

I’ve also seen terabytes of ISO ANSI IEEE JIS of stolen standards documents available on Chinese web sites for one tenth their price of their normal distribution channel.

I wouldn’t be surprised if these Nokia schematics as well as others weren’t part of a leaked or copied larger industrial espionage cache of documents that was government run.

How can U.S. and EU companies compete when Chinese companies have access to proprietary designs and don’t respect intellectual property?

Example: To find the schematic depicted in this this blog entry’s picture, just search for ‘nokia n95-8g service manual’.

Anybody got schematics or service manuals for Motorola phones?

@david sutherland – by using a business model that doesn’t rely on secret designs?

*shrug*

Google and china… so thats Chinese people are not always allowed on the interweb? they can buy it on the street!
(not rly)

interesting,could this be purchased outside of china ,or be sent outside?[or scaned]
@unic0rn can you put links to that rs files?

Lol, god I love Shenzhen, It’s the only place where you can buy a spicy grilled snake on street corner, and right next to him will be a guy selling idustrial size transformers, and next guy over has every possible “switch” you could want to buy. Right next door to a Jade trader…..mmm Shenzhen … the “Snooker Club” is the best :P

Meanwhile over here in the west you have to pay $30+ for pdf’s with international (and government) required safety standards :rolleyes:

@Agent420: Google fake N95. It does not need to leak. It will be copied. It may look like N95, it may work like N95, but inside it will be nothling like N95.
It is actually good that someone posted schematics of original mobile phones to the public. The factories cant be hurt by this, the customers can only benefit from this.

It looks the type of schematics used in repair.
It’s in Chinese and English the original nokia design schematics should be in Finnish.
Also along side each labeled component there is a description of what failure of this component will cause.

As for helping clone phone manufactures the firmware and PCB layouts are just as important in making a functional product as the schematics.

Tachikoma, I beg to differ.

With the schematics above and a legitimate phone to dump the firmware from, I believe it would only take some quantity of hours to properly reverse engineer and re-create a clone phone.

There was a very interesting TedTalk that touched on this. There are Chinese companies that will reverse engineer the phones and sell the manuals to people who want to repair the phones. There are people on the streets that will repair your phone while you wait. http://www.ted.com/talks/lang/eng/jan_chipchase_on_our_mobile_phones.html skip to the 10 minute marker.