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New Generation Mobile

Italian mobile phone manufacturer

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Record originEnglish Wikipedia
Text licenseCC BY-SA 4.0
Source revisionMay 30, 2026
Entity authorityQ3869511 ↗
Source-derived summary

New Generation Mobile, commonly known by the acronym NGM, is an Italian electronics manufacturer.

Founded in 2003 by Stefano Nesi and Sergio Pancanti, its products include smartphones, television sets and smartwatches.

Sponsorship

NGM sponsors the football clubs Bologna F.C. 1909, and Empoli F.C.; during the 2013-2014 season it was main sponsor of the Serie B league. Its logo appeared on the jerseys of all players.

Editorial summary

This brief starts where responsible research should: with the source description of “New Generation Mobile” as italian mobile phone manufacturer. Everything that follows is an evidence route, not borrowed authority.

Editorial reviewA practical starting point whose main value is the path it opens into stronger specialist and primary sources. The current lead gives the account dated anchors—2003, 1909, 2013, 2014—that can be checked directly. The linked authority record independently contributes the date 2003. The account is most persuasive where Generation, Mobile and Italian can be independently traced.
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Why this record matters

The subject matters to the general reference register because the source frames it as italian mobile phone manufacturer. Its deeper value depends on whether names, dates, institutions and citations support that framing.

Evidence profile

Vocabulary and entity names are the principal evidence signals here, because they determine the precision of every later search. The source revision retrieved here is dated May 30, 2026. The linked authority identifier is Q3869511. 2 of 2 selected statements include explicit references; 1 carry qualifiers and 0 use preferred rank. The first chronological checks are 2003, 1909, 2013 and 2014.

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The absence of detail may reflect summary conventions rather than a lack of surviving documentation. The lead is largely declarative, so disagreement and counter-evidence require a deliberate search beyond the opening account. Authority statements aid reconciliation but still require their own references, qualifiers and ranks to be checked.

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This entry incorporates text from “New Generation Mobile” on English Wikipedia. Contributors are listed in the page history. Text is available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 License. Selected authority identifiers and statements are retrieved from Wikidata under CC0; their references and qualifiers remain part of the verification path.