US factory means buyers can customize Google phone (MADE IN THE USA!!!!)

[Omaha Steve]

http://apnews.excite.com/article/20130801/DA7TD33O2.html

Aug 1, 5:22 PM (ET)

By PETER SVENSSON

NEW YORK (AP) - With its first smartphone designed completely in-house, Google is demonstrating one of the benefits of moving production from Asia to the U.S.: It's letting buyers customize phones to give them their own style.

Workers at the factory in Fort Worth, Texas, assemble the custom phone and Google ship it to the buyer's door within four days.


The Motorola Moto X smartphone, using Google's Android software, is shown, Thursday, Aug. 1, 2013 at a press preview in New York. (AP Photo/Mark Lennihan)


The Moto X is going on sale in about a month at all four national wireless carriers - Verizon, AT&T, Sprint and T-Mobile - starting at $200.

Initially, only AT&T will offer the customization option, but Google said it hopes to make it available across all carriers soon. The company will offer 18 different back covers ranging in color from "spearmint" to "cabernet," a choice of black or white fronts and seven different metallic accents for details like the volume button. That makes for 252 possible style variations of the phone.

FULL story at link.

[MADem]

1. Do they keep the workers in 12 to a room dorms with nets to prevent suicide?

How nice that something is being made in USA.

[Electric Monk]

2. Anyone else find the timing of this latest roll-out a teensy bit ironic?

[bhikkhu]

3. Did they have to build it in Texas?!

Oh well...but if I ever buy a smartphone I'd go for the US made, definitely.

[msongs]

4. great google can data mine everything you do on your phone directly, making sale of you info much

easier and more profitable