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Google beats Apple to the punch

May 30, 2013, 6:00am PDT Updated: May 31, 2013, 11:08am PDT

Google beats Apple to the punch: Building the world’s first made-in-America smartphone


Google-owned Motorola will build the world's first made-in-America smartphone later this year. Motorola chief Dennis Woodside (pictured) made the announcement Wednesday.
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Google-owned Motorola will build the world's first made-in-America smartphone later this year. Motorola chief Dennis Woodside (pictured) made the announcement Wednesday.
By Luke Stangel
Google-owned Motorola is working on a new smartphone that is made up of the things you’d expect: It’s lighter, thinner and faster than its predecessors, with cool new sensors capable of knowing if it’s traveling in a car, or accidentally dialing someone from your pocket. However, the differentiator that’s getting the most buzz is its manufacturing—the phone will be assembled entirely in the U.S.
Motorola's manufacturing partner, Flextronics, will build the phones out of a 500,000 square foot manufacturing facility near Fort Worth, Texas, using chips from Taiwan and OLED screens from South Korea. The phones could ship as soon as October, and is one of several new devices the company is working on.
The announcement came Wednesday at the D11 conference, with Motorola chief Dennis Woodside calling the Moto X the company’s “hero phone.” The company later confirmed the news in a statement.
Motorola was once a dominant player in the feature phone space, but saw its market share evaporate with the advent of smartphones. Google bought the company in 2011 for $12.5 billion.
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