Best Cell Phones Not Made in China

Best Cell Phones Not Made in China

Last updated December 1, 2023. Previously updated July 6, 2023

Where I last left off in July, there were a lot of things in motion. Samsung had announced that it was completely out of China, and Google and Apple were promising to move out of China into Vietnam and India, respectively. Did those things ever happen?

Samsung – Samsung is still the only major smartphone brand that has unequivocally moved out of China. Today they make most of their phones out of Vietnam, with factories in South Korea, India, Brazil, and Indonesia to serve local markets. While Samsung still does make some accessories out of China, there is not one new Samsung smartphone being made there.

Google – Neither Google nor Apple have been nearly as decisive as Samsung. Google announced with great fanfare that they were moving production to Vietnam, but when my wife purchased her Pixel 7, it was made in China. Bottom line, Foxconn is rapidly building more manufacturing facilities in Vietnam, but the plants in China are still very much alive, so it’s basically the luck of the draw whether you get one from China or Vietnam. If you must get a Google phone, go to a physical store and check the box yourself.

Apple – Back in 2021 I was excited by all the news I read. “Apple is leaving China!” “Apple will be manufacturing out of Vietnam by the end of next year!!” “Your next iPhone will be made in India!!!”. The reality is, Tim Cook sank $275 billion into China to—literally—build cities that would manufacture iPhones. I’ve come to the conclusion that most of the news that Apple and FoxConn are leaving China are just PR from Apple, giving Apple fanatics (like myself) hope that their next iPhone wouldn’t be made in China.

It’s true that iPads, MacBooks, and AirPods are moving to Vietnam, but I haven’t found one iPhone sold in the US Market that wasn’t made in China. They have cried wolf one too many times. When my iPhone 12 gives up its ghost, I’ll be switching to Samsung.

By the way, you’ll hear a lot of hype about both Google and Apple moving manufacturing to India. In most cases, these factories are being set up to serve the local Indian market. Why? Because India was one of the only countries smart enough to see the growing threat from China. They require all online retailers to divulge country of origin on their products, and they do not hesitate to put tariffs on imports that threaten the national security of India. American lobbyists cry and moan, but let’s look at what happened. Apple and Google are moving manufacturing INTO India to avoid these tariffs, and retailers operating in India (including Amazon) haven’t gone out of business after being forced to divulge country of origin. I only wish that American politicians had more of the backbone that the Indian government does.

The rest – ASUS and Sony remain on my list as brands that will we can be pretty confident will not be sourcing to China–I’ve updated their listings with their newest phones, all of which use the same Snapdragon 8+ Gen1 processor which Samsung and Google put into their latest phones..

Original post follows:

老大哥在看着你

If my Google skills are up to par, that line above says “big brother is watching you” in simplified Chinese. And that’s an apt way to start this particular post.

When George Orwell wrote 1984, he imagined a world where there telescreens were used by Big Brother to monitor the actions of its citizens and to feed them a steady stream of propaganda to control them. When I read the book in the 1980s, I thought to myself, this is ridiculous. No citizen in any country would ever let it get to that point where every single room in every single house is wired up for a central government to watch.

And yet after only a few years, it happened. And we built it ourselves. I had a Palm Pilot, which became a Blackberry, which became an iPhone. And we didn’t need Big Brother to force us to provide every bit of information about ourselves to him–we happily told our little phones who all our friends and acquaintances are, where we live, what our daily habits are, what we purchased, what we ate, what our deepest darkest secrets were, what we liked, what we hated, and how our health was.

It’s bad enough that companies like Apple and Facebook have this information. But can you imagine what the likes of Hitler, Stalin, Mao, Pol Pot, or Idi Amin would have done with this kind of information as they tried to isolate and even murder any subversives?

You don’t even need to imagine what the Chinese Communist Party would do with this information. They’re already using it to keep their own citizens in line. And yes, they’re already exploiting our openness to create chaos, stir up dissension, and manipulate our elections. If you don’t see that, you need to open your eyes wider.

I’m sometimes a bit astounded at how naive we can be in the West, and especially in the United States. Back when the federal government imposed rules on Hwawei and TikTok, my boss at the time made a comment to me about how terrible it was that our government was being so racist towards the Chinese. I suppose he made a point to tell me this because he assumed I’d somehow be offended. I told him straight out that even though I’m Chinese–actually especially because I’m Chinese–I fully supported those actions. Because if information is power, our enemies in the CCP know a lot more about us than we know about them.

I know you came here to find a cell phone not made in China, and I’ll get to that 🙂 But clearly, this is much more about finding a product that won’t break or helping our own economy. This is a matter of national security. I have a background in Computer Science and technology. Do you know how easy it is to plant a small piece of code into telecommunications equipment or computer software that will let you infiltrate it in the future? And do you remember how every company that wants to do business in China must enter into joint partnership where they share all of their intellectual property with their China counterparts? And of course, the CCP is embedded not only in state-owned enterprises but private enterprises as well.

And in the interest of being able to buy cheap things on Walmart and Amazon, we’ve been cheering them on for 30 years, throwing our money at them the whole time. It’s time to stop it.

Are any cell phones not made in China?

Happily, not only are there a lot of them, but a lot of really good ones. The best brands to look out for are Asus (made in Taiwan), Samsung (made in South Korea), and Sony (made in Japan). Sadly, LG recently made the decision to discontinue their mobile phone business.

There is one Android phone that clearly stands out. It’s listed on every major “best cell phones” list each year, including CNET, PC Magazine, The Verge, Wirecutter, Tom’s Guide, Tech Radar, Forbes, T3, and more. It’s the Samsung Galaxy and Galaxy Ultra. And it’s manufactured in Vietnam and South Korea.

We’ll run down other great phones from ASUS and Sony as well. China-based brands like OnePlus, Huawei, Oppo, and Xiaomi are going to get very aggressive with pricing in the coming years (no doubt subsidized heavily by the CCP) to try to snare uneducated consumers. And beware of Motorola Mobility; while many Moto phones are manufactured outside of China, don’t expect this to last–Motorola was acquired by Lenovo, who themselves are a 100% China company, headquartered in Beijing.

But by continuing to buy the best from the best, you can do your part to keep those China brands where they are.

But wait–aren’t the parts all made in China?

Yes, a lot of them are. But that’s not the point here.

The point of looking for a cell phone that’s not made in China is to try to slow down the speed at which China is taking over this sector, just as it monopolizes manufacturing of so many other sectors like sporting equipment and coffee makers. Right now, the parts that are manufactured in China are largely cheap parts like cases and buttons. But China has never forgotten its Marxist roots, and has its eyes set on dominating the entire “means of production”, which means eventually having the capacity to make everything themselves, from motherboards to semiconductors to video cards and displays.

A lot of that is done out of Taiwan right now, which means Taiwan is employing its own citizens and collecting its own tax revenue. But if Taiwan continues to go the way of American companies by having amoral, psychopathic executives outsource everything to China to boost their stock prices, even if it means giving up their secrets? Well, that will spell the end of everything, up to and including the end of Taiwan as a democracy and the beginning of the end of the United States militarily as China gains an insurmountable military advantage by being able to surveil every American citizen–all bought and paid for by those same American citizens.

Those who do not remember the mistakes of the past are condemned to repeat them. I have to say I am astounded at the speed at which members of Taiwan’s Kuomingtang Party (who are behind most of the big Taiwanese companies that are outsourcing to China) have rushed to enable the same Communist Party that murdered and imprisoned their own parents and grandparents. Let’s hope the spanking they got at the polls and what they see with their own eyes happening in Hong Kong wakes them up so they start to diversify their supply chain.

What about Apple?

Sorry Apple fans, but all iPhones are made in China. You’ve heard the horror stories of Foxconn manufacturing plants where workers are locked inside under sweatshop conditions (some even driven to suicide). But Chinese citizens still stand on line to get those jobs and American citizens still stand on line to get those phones, so Apple executives and their shareholders are happy.

But let’s put the human considerations aside. Even though Apple has a reputation for excellent craftsmanship, let’s think about something. Apple phones are well engineered, but not well manufactured. How can I say this? Here’s a list of Apple products I’ve owned, and things to go wrong with them.

* MacBook Pro 13 2018 – Battery swelled up and Keyboard keys repeat. Apple said they would fix the keyboard for free–but only after I paid $200 to fix the battery. Thanks “Geniuses”.
* Apple iPhone X – Lightning port stopped working completely after warranty expired
* Apple iPhone 6 – Became unusable after it constantly crashed, despite purportedly being supported.
* Apple iPhone 4S – The last iPhone I ever owned that was perfect from beginning to end. Also happens to be the last iPhone where Steve Jobs saw through production from beginning to end. Coincidence?

Apple’s recent success is largely due to the legacy that Steve Jobs left behind, but sadly, Apple is showing cracks in the armor. I have had nothing but negative experiences with Apple Store “Geniuses”, who increasingly are smug in their polo shirts but devoid of any real technical knowledge. They’re not trained to fix problems, they’re trained to use every defect as an excuse to sell AppleCare. “Hey! You know your Apple product is going to break, so why not pay us an extra $200 now so that you don’t have to pay us $600 later? Unless we say the problem is your fault, which we will most of the time”.

Sadly, Apple is doing its best to lose me after being a customer of their for 40 years. And their continued reliance on China manufacturing may be just the thing to get me to switch. Love or hate the last presidential administration, but they did the right thing in establishing harsher tariffs on China–reportedly Google and Apple have started to look more towards India and Vietnam to diversify its manufacturing base. Let’s hope the current administration holds the line so that this positive trend can continue.

Best Cell Phones Not Made in China

1. Samsung Galaxy S23 Ultra – Best Overall

Just about every Web site, blog, and magazine that reviews Android phones lists the Galaxy S23 Ultra as the best Android phone (and in many cases, the best high-end smartphone overall) you can buy. There is very little not to like about this phone.

Its photo and video features are the first thing that set it apart. It boasts four professional grade rear-facing cameras, including a 12 megapixel (MP) ultra wide camera, a 200 MP wide-angle camera, and two 10-megapixel telephoto lenses. It also has a 12P front-facing camera for selfies. Your photos will look like they came from a professional grade digital camera (which they did), and advanced features like 30x and 100x zoom, night mode, and AI optimization of the picture based on faces, natural lighting, angles, and direction help you ensure that you’ll never take a bad shot.

The 5,000 mAh battery lasts well over 22-26 hours, even using 5G and video, and it supports wired charging at an astounding 45W and Fast Wireless Charging 2.0 at 15W. Your phone can even act as a wireless charging station itself to charge Qi-compatible earbuds, watches, and even phones. Its Snapdragon 8 Gen 2 processor is the fastest ever in a Galaxy. And of course, it supports 5G.

Samsung of course is known for consistently having the best displays of any smartphone, and this trend continues with their dynamic AMOLED 2X panels, which feature better colors, deeper blacks, and better power efficiency than traditional OLED screens.

The Ultra starts at a whopping $1200.

If you don’t need the high-end features (or price) of the Ultra model, the Samsung Galaxy S23 is certainly more affordable, starting at $800. It’s essentially the same phone, just without a lot of the high-end

Galaxy Z Fold5: This phone isn’t cheap at $1800, but It is demonstrates how Samsung has clearly moved far ahead of Apple in terms of technical innovation. It’s a screen that “folds” out to double the size of a traditional smartphone screen, giving you a large screen that works like a tablet.

The Galaxy Z Flip5 is a phone with the same concept that you can “fold” to fit into your pocket like an old-school flip phone. It starts at $1000.

If you’re on a budget, Samsung’s Galaxy A series are also not made in China.

The Galaxy A54 is their “highest of the low end”, starting at $449.99. You might be able to find it cheaper at a retailer like Amazon. Other affordable options include the Galaxy A23 at $299.99, Galaxy A14 at $199.99, and Galaxy A03s at $159.99. These models tend to focus more on being phones with cameras instead of supercomputers or entertainment centers.

Anything in the S series is guaranteed not to be made in China. I’ve heard varying things about the A series; you’ll probably want to go to a physical store to check the box before you buy one of those, just to make sure you’re not getting a counterfeit or old China-made model.

2. ASUS ROG Phone 7 – Best Phone for Gamers

ASUS is a company based in Taiwan. I’ll be posting a separate blog post that lays out the difference between Taiwan and China, but all you need to know is one thing. Taiwan are the good guys.

The ROG seres is ASUS’s flagship line of phones, specifically geared towards gaming applications. This isn’t much of a surprise, as ASUS is one of the leaders in gaming PCs and monitors, so it’s in their DNA as a company. And if you spend any amount of time playing games on your phone, you’ll appreciate the detail they put into making this line of phones the choice for gamers.

Gaming on mobile devices has come a long way since Angry Birds. The processing power of mobile phones has gotten to the point where your smartphone can rival game consoles and PCs. And this phone has features that gamers of all kinds will appreciate, from those in intense battles in Fortnite, to those catching their favorite monsters in Pokemon Go.

The ROG 6 is the successor to the highly successful ROG 3, ROG5, and ROG 6. The ROG 6 upgrades the processor from the Snapdragon 8+ Gen1 to the 3.2 GHz Snapdragon Gen 2 chip, so it’ll give the maximum performance and power efficiency available, comparable to other smartphones like the Samsung Galaxy S23. The AMOLED display (which happens to be built by Samsung) has a 720 Hz touch-sampling rate. Put another way, the touch screen will respond immediately with latency that’s hardly perceptible. It has a 165 Hz refresh rate to provide a crisp, clear HDR image, and the glass itself is protected by Corning Gorilla Glass Victus, so it can withstand tapping, pounding, banging, and the occasional toss across the room (although that last one is not recommended).

Great picture deserves great sound. The unit has symmetrical 7-magnet dual speakers with sound optimized by audio specialist Dirac so you’ll be immersed in stereo sound as you hold your phone in landscape orientation. And here’s something amazingly innovative that you won’t see in many phones–a headphone jack!

The ROG series has three unique ways to use your phone as a controller. The AeroActive Cooler 5 clip-on cooling fan not only keeps your CPU cool, it has two physical buttons too use as a controller. It also supports 10 different motion controls such swiveling your phone, pushing it forward, and so on, for games that support them. And there are ultrasonic sensors on the side of (the top when holding it in landscape mode).

The 6000 mAh battery comes with something else you won’t find in many cell phones today–a 65-watt HyperCharge charger. The battery lasts over a day, and the design of the phone even makes sure that the battery cells are separated and spaced properly in the unit to ensure that the heat doesn’t become uncomfortable.

Time doesn’t permit me to list out all the other bells and whistles for gamers, but suffice it to say if mobile gaming is important to you, this one is the best. Check Amazon to check availability.

ASUS also makes a compact phone called the Zenfone, which had been on previous versions of this list. But sadly, ASUS is making the Zenfone 9 out of China and there are reports that the Zenfone 10 will be the last model of this series. All the more reason to support ASUS and buy the ROG, which appears to be stubbornly holding on to its Taiwan roots in manufacturing.

3. Sony Xperia 1 V – Superior Video and Audio

Xperia is Sony’s entry into the smartphone space (if you’re keeping score at home “Xperia 1” refers to Sony’s top-of-the-line brand of smartphone, while “Xperia 5” refers to its compact version). It’s made in Thailand.

The Xperia 1 V is powered by the Snapdragon 8 Gen 2 which keeps its performance on par with the big boys of Google, Apple, and Samsung. But if you’re a professional photographer and videographer, its features actually surpass them.

If you’ve ever owned a Walkman, Trinitron, Bravia, Alpha, or Handycam, you won’t be surprised to find that Sony put a lot of attention into sight and sound. Its photography features were developed in conjunction with the same engineers who build its professional Alpha 9 series of cameras, and include ZEISS optics. One innovation with the Xperia 1 V is a sliding optical sensor from 85mm to 125mm, meaning all stop between those two zoom distances will be optical and lossless. Prior to 85mm you still have 16mm and 24mm lossless stops, with everything else before 85mm being digital. If you’re a professional photographer and want a DSLR-like experience in your phone, this is the one for you.

Software features like Real-Time Tracking and auto-focus, burst shooting with auto-focus and auto-exposure, low-light capabilities, and a dedicated shutter button. They took learnings from their Handycam business unit to build superior wind-filtering into their mics.

The 6.5″ OLED display supports 4K HDR at a 120Hz refresh rate. Dolby Atmos sound gives you a movie-going experience on your phone (with a headphone jack!). And for gamers, your Playstation Dualshock controller will pair seamlessly. You’ll also get 256GB of storage and microSD support (yes, microSD!).

The unit has an upgraded 5,000mAh battery that lasts over a day and maintains its health even after 3 years (are you listening, fruit company?) And as with the Samsung, it not only supports wireless charging, but can double in a pinch as a wireless charging station.

5. Nokia 6300

Just need a phone that lets you use it as a phone, and not a gadget that walks your dog, waters your plants, and cooks you breakfast? Boy do I have the phone for you.

It’s the Nokia 6300. Yes, I said Nokia and no, you haven’t time-traveled back to 2007. Although buy this phone and you’ll feel like you have.

It’s a phone that looks like the phone so many of us had in those glorious days of yore when phones were still phones. It has real buttons (remember those?) and a tiny screen. Sure, it lets you read emails and watch YouTube and chat on social media. But this is a phone that hearkens back to a day when smartphones were gloriously small, light, and used sparingly vs. permanently affixed to your brain.

Nokia does have higher end models that are made in China, but those aren’t really worth talking about. But this (and the similarly retro Nokia 225) are happily made in Vietnam.

An interesting bit of trivial is that Nokia phones are no longer owned by Nokia, but by a company called HMD Global, after Microsoft purchased Nokia’s phone business in 2014 and sold it back to this new company (made of former Nokia executives) in 2016. The phones are manufactured by FIH Mobile, a subsidiary of Taiwanese company Foxconn. As part of the sale from Microsoft, FIH Mobile acquired a factory in Vietnam, which explains why certain phones are still being made there.

6. Purism Librem 5 USA – Made in the USA, including the supply chain

Talking about 1984 at the beginning of this post probably turned off a lot of people–like the proverbial boiling frog, millions upon millions of our fellow citizens are all too happy to trade in every aspect of their privacy in order to get free access to free mind-numbing games or even more mind-numbing social media. If the NSA or the CCP can track where you are any minute of any day of the year, no big deal, right?

But if you take your privacy seriously, consider the Purism Librem 5. This is a company that’s gone completely out of its way to create a smartphone whose #1 priority is privacy. This means using PureOS, a GNU/Linux-based open-source operating system that is free from the prying eyes of Apple and Google (who if you let yourself think about it have power that is much more frightening than the US or China governments). Open source means that no government agency or marketing department will be able to sneak a line of code into the OS to track you without the open source community seeing it. And they even source the supply chain to use as many USA-made components as possible.

7. Google Pixel 8

I’m putting Google last mainly because in 2022 I read a lot of press coverage about how they were moving production of the Pixel 7 from China to Vietnam. I convinced my wife to get a Pixel 7a, only to be shipped one that was made in China. My conclusion is that the news was being pushed more by Google’s PR department than anything else.

Reports online are mixed. A lot of users are reporting getting Pixel 8s that say “Phone made in Vietnam”, while others are reporting some Pixel 8s continuing to be made in China, as well as all production of models like the Google Fold (an idea Google shamelessly stole from Samsung).

If you’re in the market for a new Pixel, make sure you send a message to Google by specifically asking for one made in Vietnam.

You’ll probably notice that Apple is conspicuously missing from this list. That’s because despite all the PR and all the “exclusive” news reports from the biggest news outlets, most notably the New York Times, every single iPhone continues to be made out of China. If you’re lucky, you may stumble upon a made in India one that was intended for the Indian market.

Do you know of other cell phones that have avoided the China trap? Let us know in the comments!

32 Comments

    1. Why the celebration of a phone made in Viet Nam? It was communist when I was on the ground fifty years ago and it is still communist. China controls the countries around it as an hegemony and Russia still has favored status in Viet Nam since it was their client state during the war there.

      What phone do I use? I have all types but use an older iPhone solely because my children and their children dislike green bubbles. Ask Apple if they certify all iPhones made in China as free of tracking chips and software….no answer as they are busy paying their lobbyists to keep their government friends from asking just that question.

      1. Viet Nam is not trying to control the rest of the world, economically or otherwise, as China is nor, is it a threat to it’s neighbors or does it want to invade a de facto independent nation. Not North Korea or Iran or Russia is our worst enemy but China is.

      2. Great question! I thought of the same. I unfortunately have stayed a Moto fan but now that Japan sold them to Lenovo I need to look at Samsung. Too bad Apple is all about profit and people fall for “iPhone is safe because they don’t let the US government unlock it… Unfortunately CCP might be…

  1. Thanks for writing this . It makes sense. The more that know the truth and acknowledge it , the better our future will be.

  2. Thanks a lot. Really pleased to have a list provided, so don’t have to check all manufacturers. I will not buy from China

  3. I also dislike a lot of what the U.S stands for in general but China is on another level down. Now, I add to their badness, new cooperation with Russia, a country out slaughtering civilians in Ukraine.

    I have an iPhone 12. If Apple doesn’t have all of their manufacturing out of there by when I buy a new phone, I’ll definitely buy one of the nonChina ones. We already try and avoid all Chinese made products, a difficult task.

  4. The Nokia 6300 4G runs Kai OS as its operating system. Kai OS is developed by KaiOS Technologies (Hong Kong) Limited; a company based in Hong Kong, whose largest shareholder is Chinese multinational electronics conglomerate TCL Corporation.

  5. what a great article and so very true, china makes absolute garbage and i am so fedup with what they do they test everyone out, at first the phones, vapes, what ever they make , start of fairly decent, then they get weaker and weaker and people keep buying it,even though they will even say themselves oh no made in china ,Ive said for years to give the market to India or Taiwan

  6. Thanks for this!

    I also found a company called FairPhone, they are a phone company with a human and environmental rights mission. Their impact page (https://www.fairphone.com/en/impact/) says that their final assembly manufacturer is Arima, which is in Taiwan.

    Interestingly, FairPhone also publishes the full supply chain of all the component parts to their phone. As you mentioned, a lot of parts are made by companies in China. However, I think their transparency in the supply chain is commendable given the current reality of making phones, and hopefully it will incrementally pressure more companies to have more transparency. We cannot divest the supply chain from China without knowing what the supply chain is.

    FairPhone’s goals of fair labor practices is also in line with why many people would try to not buy from China, and might make it so that FairPhone uses more non-China companies than other brands (I don’t know, I don’t have another phone supply chain to compare to). At least, FairPhone would probably source from companies in China with less abusive labor practices.

    Finally, FairPhone’s environmental emphasis on longevity and repairability means that you hopefully won’t have to buy a whole new phone soon. The best way to buy less from China is to buy less and reuse more.

    Very unfortunately, FairPhone currently does not sell to the US. However, European visitors to this website might be interested in their phone, and they recently started selling in Taiwan.

    Side note: Purism claims to try to have more USA-based parts, but I can’t find a published list of manufactures to see how much this actually is (e.g. if it’s just the Taiwan manufacturing being moved to the US). The closest I got is https://puri.sm/posts/manufacturing-the-librem-5-usa-phone-in-the-united-states-of-america/, which is still an interesting read. If anyone finds this information, please let me know. I will also try to contact them.

  7. Not sure why you continued to buy Apple products after the first one failed you, as I have banned anything from Toshiba after their laptop caught fire while sitting on a table top, but other than that it was a good read.

  8. Thank you for this list. I am done with Apple products. I am actually trying to go 100% non-Chinese made anything. It’s a challenge for sure but I will NOT give a penny (if I can help it) to an enemy. China is now making moves to support Russia in it’s war on the Ukraine and that’s the final straw. I can no longer justify giving my money to Apple. I should have quit them a long time ago.

  9. You make some excellent points, and while I agree with the majority of them, if we don’t check our own fascist shifts in the west, we will end up where we’ve been before.

    The rise of communism and fascism have the same sources, the idea that we need to hate some other identifiable group or system in order for us to be “best”

    My last 3 phones have specifically been not made in china.

    1. I could not agree with you more. Perhaps what’s more pernicious about the West than a communist nation like China is that their tyranny and human rights abuses are out in the open for everyone to see, while in the West it’s hidden.

      But anyone with discernment can see fascism for what it is: using force to silence anyone who believes something different than you. Whether that force is the point of a gun vs. the wielding of political power and social rejection the end result is the same, the death of freedom.

      I hope everyone reading this blog sees it not as a propaganda tool for any side, but as a counter to the extreme and lopsided propaganda that the CCP puts out. But as I’ve written many times on this blog, it’s corrupt Western politicians and corporate executives that have gotten us into this mess much more than the CCP, and ultimately those corrupt leaders get their power from us, the consumer.

  10. I took this list as a guide for my new cellphone: I bought a 128/8GB silver Zenfone 8, MFD 2023.1 from the Asus Shop (i.e. Digital River)

    Unfortunately, it says Made in China.

    1. Ugh, thank you for the update, Dr. Yelo. I see a corroborating review on Amazon dated 9/1/22, so I will be removing this phone from the list. It seems that after I published the list ASUS changed their manufacturing location, which is especially ironic given they are a Taiwanese company.

      I will be updating this article shortly, and I’ll have some fresh research with up-to-date manufacturing data.

  11. Glad you made this site, time I switched from Moto to maybe Samsung. BUT I do wonder about the safety of VIETNAM phones???? Sad there’s too many idiots who don’t know the difference between evil CCP and honorable Chinese workers living under CCP oppression or that shareholders and users would rather have high profit, low prices from the CCP devil than pay an extra $300 for a Chinese made Iphone etc…. Plus Iphone is always lagging behind Android in features

  12. Thank you for what you do. Here is a brief that you will find topical on what ChinaCCP is now up to. I reference your site for purchasing decisions and am grateful for your work.
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  13. My concern is not only the “made in China” issue but, now, all new smart phones support Beidou. I’m not a super tech-savvy person but from my research, GPS is typically 1-way communication – the satellite tells you (your phone/device) where you are. But China’s Beidou is the first and only that is 2-way communication – your device also tells the satellite where you are. I don’t fully understand all the repercussions, but I sure don’t like how that sounds. When will we get phone choices that don’t support Beidou? Or when can we figure out how to disable/block Beidou without having to turn GPS off altogether? Would love to hear from anyone who can get to the bottom of this issue.
    One of the great things about America used to be that we had choices. Now we don’t get a choice anymore.

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