Apple – American
Samsung Mobile – South Korean
Nokia Mobile – Finnish
Google Pixel – American
Sony Mobile – Japanese
LG – South Korean
BLU Products – American
Lava – Indian
Sharp – Japanese
Fairphone – Dutch
Philips Mobile – Dutch
Yotaphone – Russian
BQ – Spanish
Acer – Taiwanese
Asus – Taiwanese
HTC – Taiwanese
Essential Products – American
Cherry Mobile – Philippino
DoCoMo – Japanese
Panasonic Mobile – Japanese.
Afrione – Nigerian
Mara Phone – Rwandan
Librem – American
Thanks, but you've listed where those companies are headquartered, not where their devices are manufactured or where their main suppliers are located.
I wasn't able to track down the country of origin for many of them, but at least Fairphone is open about it, and 75% of its components are manufactured in China[1].
Apple devices are still mostly produced in China, with some smaller scale operations in India[2].
I would like to see Fairphone levels of transparency from all manufacturers, but until then it's safe to assume that any electronics are partially sourced from countries with existing manufacturing facilities and cheap labor such as China. It's a cost cutting measure that makes it unfeasible to move production elsewhere, even for giants like Apple, and downright impossible for smaller companies.
> Thanks, but you've listed where those companies are headquartered, not where their devices are manufactured or where their main suppliers are located.
Indeed, I forgot about that. $2k is an exhorbitant price to pay for those specs, and I consider the non-USA version expensive as well, but it's the cost of local manufacturing and I applaud Purism for the effort. Hopefully that overhead will start to diminish once more manufacturers start doing the same.
Micromax in India assembles phones locally. Parts and design however are sourced from China.
Yotaphone is primarily a carrier/networking tech company. The mobile arm that created the Yotaphone e-ink/LCD phone went bankrupt in 2019. Their last device was the China-only Yotaphone 3 in 2018 [0].
