Motorola's Moto X phone to be made in the U.S.

[tammywammy]

Source: CNN

Rancho Palos Verdes, California (CNN) -- Motorola says it will produce the first smartphone manufactured in the United States.

Called Moto X, the phone will be assembled at a 500,000-square-foot plant near Fort Worth, Texas, that will employ about 2,000 people. The majority of smartphones today are manufactured in Asia.

The Moto X is scheduled to hit the market by the end of the year. It's the first new phone to be designed entirely under the ownership of Google, which bought Motorola Mobility last year.

Dennis Woodside, CEO of Motorola Mobility, announced the news Wednesday at the D11 tech conference being hosted by AllThingsD, the tech-news site.

The phone is packed with new features that can anticipate users' needs such as "when to fire up the camera," Woodside said. For example, sensors in the phone will let it know when it's being pulled out of someone's pocket, he said.


Read more: http://www.cnn.com/2013/05/30/tech/mobile/motorola-moto-x-phone/index.html

[Marrah_G]

1. Nice!

[Gin]

2. Where will it be manufactured?

Rancho Palos Verdes, California (CNN) -- Motorola says it will produce the first smartphone manufactured in the United States.

Called Moto X, the phone will be assembled at a 500,000-square-foot plant near Fort Worth, Texas, that will employ about 2,000 people. The majority of smartphones today are manufactured in Asia.


From what I read.....the assembly is in Texas........maybe I missed where it will be made.

[tammywammy]

3. From the article:

He said that 70% of the phone will be assembled at a Texas facility that once made Nokia phones, although some of its components will be built overseas.

I think the article is using manufacturing and assembling interchangeably. I think some parts will be manufactured at the Ft Worth facility, but of course some components will obviously come from other sources.

[Sen. Walter Sobchak]

4. It's Foxconn,

It is the factory at 5650 Alliance Gateway Freeway,

[tammywammy]

6. No, it's Flextronics.

Flextronics, a huge Singapore-based electronics manufacturing firm, will operate the facility for Motorola at 5650 Alliance Gateway Freeway. The building, once occupied by the cellphone maker Nokia, is owned by Hillwood Properties.
http://www.star-telegram.com/2013/05/29/4893031/motorola-to-build-smartphone-at.html

Flextronics is out of Singapore.

[Sen. Walter Sobchak]

7. Interesting, Foxconn was in there until recently.

[Heywood J]

8. As long as there's a way to turn all that extraneous stuff off,

and not have the phone substitute its judgment for mine or report home at every opportunity, I'll put myself in line.

[Kingofalldems]

9. Where do I sign up?