Bloomberg: Google is looking to move Pixel phone production to India

21 June 2023
Google is reportedly in talks with Foxconn, Dixon Technologies and Lava International as potential partners.

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Alex9, 23 Jun 2023Seeing the comments it seems Chinese severely lack the curr... moremajority of gsmarena readers are Indians and rest of them are just from other countries. its natural, an Indian would defend his country. but here people praising China for its manufacturing capabilities are random, not only from China. China is way more advanced in tech than India and it would probably need half a century to catch up to. I am neither Chinese nor Indian but it is what it is.

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    • Anonymous
    • t5U
    • 23 Jun 2023

    Thank you Google. You are whole heartedly welcome in India.

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      • Alex9
      • U@a
      • 23 Jun 2023

      S, 22 Jun 2023Well they will assemble the parts not manufacture anything ... moreIndia already manufactures a lot of mid level components for smartphones manufactured in india
      Some of them are - Display,camera modules,phone Chassis ,PCB, speaker modules, Battery packs, fingerprint scanners, flex cables,vibrator motors, some electrical components like resistors, micro capacitors,chargers etc etc

      Its not fake nationalism, it just your grossly outdated knowledge about current manufacturing capabilities of indian electronics manufacturing sector and some visible biases
      , In fact as per Realme CEO a few days ago, the average localisation in a indian smartphone is around 30-35% in 2022 compared to 40-45% in a Chinese one compared to 10-15% in a Vietnamese one

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        • Alex9
        • U@a
        • 23 Jun 2023

        Seeing the comments it seems Chinese severely lack the current data/knowledge about the current manufacturing capabilities of indian electronics sector

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          • Anonymous
          • y2g
          • 22 Jun 2023

          S, 22 Jun 2023Well they will assemble the parts not manufacture anything ... moreWell everyone starts somewhere and these ongoing years are the time for India.
          We cannot stamp everything as fake nationalism propaganda and be in denial that we can't do anything.
          India is not only workforce of agriculture, there are many domains which you missed from S/w, Pharma, Nursing, Doctors and their numbers are highest in the world. Quality vise we were bad under our earlier govt. regime but things are different now.
          So, hardwares are the only part left and in next 15 years the picture will be different.
          Also, to let you know we do have chips and PCBs developed in house, it is just not catering to consumer products like mobile sensors, mobile cameras, x86 or arm architectures cause the patents are held by other companies.

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            • Anonymous
            • X}B
            • 22 Jun 2023

            Amazing! Google is most welcome here!
            Hopefully this will translate in lower prices for the Pixels.

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              • txE
              • 22 Jun 2023

              Why not Indonesia so we can also get Pixel here? 🤣 /jk

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                • txE
                • 22 Jun 2023

                Casio, 21 Jun 2023so nobody informed Google that Apple is going to move the p... moreI don't understand with people that say "Google is failing on the smartphone market" while in fact Google doesn't even have as much market as Samsung or iPhone.

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                  • 22 Jun 2023

                  Anonymous, 22 Jun 2023Very nice move Google! Move all production to India and Vie... moreWell they will assemble the parts not manufacture anything here in india.
                  As per my knowledge indian govt is charging highest import duties on mobile imported from other countries but not charging more on importing of components.
                  So, all companies are importing components and then doing the assemble part.
                  Thus made in india.

                  I know there are some kids who will object my view.
                  To them, just think and answer - 1) who makes the processors, 2) who makes those different sensors used in so called smartphones, 3) who makes those memory modules, 4) who makes those batteries, 5) who makes those PCB, 6) Who makes those displays, etc. and the big question is WHERE THEY MAKE THOSE COMPONENTS.
                  Almost every components used in mobiles comes from china, that's for sure.
                  Other countries like vietnam might have some production capacity but they do not have the scale like china.
                  China has highest manufacturing capacity including highest workforce of 800 million people.
                  India has about 400 to 500 million workforce and most of them are in aggriculture related product.
                  India has around 300 to 500 million 18 - 24 year old young people who are probably playing BGMI or earning money from youtube, that is the true young indian economy.
                  All desktop and laptop computer parts also belongs to china.
                  Those who know just don't do vow vow.
                  Others will just fall prey to the marketing gimmicks and fake nationalism propoganda.
                  Keep dreaming.

                    Anonymous, 22 Jun 2023Ah the spotted the indian with the strawman argumentThat's the truth my friend and everyone knows about it.

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                      • Anonymous
                      • q}r
                      • 22 Jun 2023

                      Anonymous, 21 Jun 2023Now army of dedicated CCP employees will start praising Chi... moreAh the spotted the indian with the strawman argument

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                        • Anonymous
                        • 86a
                        • 22 Jun 2023

                        Very nice move Google! Move all production to India and Vietnam or other south east nations or Africa, we don't want any part made in chinah

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                          • Anonymous
                          • raQ
                          • 21 Jun 2023

                          Anonymous, 21 Jun 2023Oneus and xiaomi phones made in India are same compared to ... morethen why poco x3 pro india didn't have nfc but poco x3 pro for global have nfc?

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                            • Anonymous
                            • YQW
                            • 21 Jun 2023

                            Most of the people commenting here will not have access to the Indian made units yet they still say they won't buy it blah blah.
                            Some of these might be the ones saying I won't buy phones manufactured in China, a decade ago.

                              Anonymous, 21 Jun 2023So the quality will drop cause there is no experience in th... moreAccuse of spying?
                              China's Communist party is openly doing it, right from breaking all the copyrights and developing products in its local market so no lawsuit comes to them. Cars, mobiles, electronics and whatnot are copied.
                              People are good, it's their evil government which is really a pain in the ... for the whole world.

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                                • Anonymous
                                • vaS
                                • 21 Jun 2023

                                Anonymous, 21 Jun 2023What about Vietnam? What is made in Vietnam is high quality.Harder to lowball Vietnamese over Indian laborers. But is it not funny how these corpos will one day develop mechanisms to totally replace the people who helped them through the non AI days?

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                                  • Anonymous
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                                  • 21 Jun 2023

                                  TheLastOracle, 21 Jun 2023Samsung's Note 7 had components from China that caused... moreOneus and xiaomi phones made in India are same compared to China.
                                  It is about poor QC, not chinese pieces.

                                  Learn to read ...

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                                    • Anonymous
                                    • Ids
                                    • 21 Jun 2023

                                    Kriegsherr, 21 Jun 2023But Chinese people are one of the hardest working people on... moreWhat about Vietnam? What is made in Vietnam is high quality.

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                                      • EU0
                                      • 21 Jun 2023

                                      The issue is that the quality will drop again and it might be noticeable enough that they might move to the US. And with that the cost might increase noticeably.

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                                        • Anonymous
                                        • rKx
                                        • 21 Jun 2023

                                        Casio, 21 Jun 2023you surely dont know anything about india..Can you elaborate what you know about india?