Where do iPhones produce? What you need to know when buying an iPhone.

I welcome everyone! Let's answer today from any instructions, reviews, stop and talk about where your iPhone or iPad comes from. Why did I even decide to devote this article to this issue? Everything is simple - after spending a small survey among your friends and acquaintances (many of which use I-devices with pleasure) I am surprised to find out that it's hardly all of them are convinced - iPhones produce and collect where only you can, but not in China.

This country is still associated with poor-quality goods and does not fit with the perfect (of course, with small reservations) Apple technique. And in vain, because in addition to small factories - where the main consumer goods are produced, in China is located a large number of Production of various world-class companies. But let's not hurry, run forward, hurry, and start in order ...

If strongly (very strong) simplify, then the entire process of production of iPhones can be divided into two stages.

1. The initial stage is the development of the device, software, the creation of prototypes, etc.
2. The final assembly process.

Interestingly, they occur in absolutely different territories. Where? Now let's talk about each separately and everyone will learn.

Where is the production of iPhones begins?

And all begins with a head office apple companies In Cupertino (American California), no wonder on the back cover of your gadget, you can see the inscription: Designed by Apple in California.

It is in the USA that ideas of new devices are born, design is being developed, appearance, software (, IOS, and much more). Here are to be expressed simple language - Brain and head of the company. And it means it can be clear enough to say that the main part of the iPhone is produced in Cupertino. And, in my opinion, the most important part. Who does not agree, willing to argue, comments are waiting! :)

So the statement that the iPhone is made in America is by no means unreasonable, and of course, with some reservations, this can be safely talking about all.

Where is the help of iPhones?

Here, if you did not know this in advance, there will be a small surprise. All original iPhones are collecting where? Solely in the PRC (China). Moreover, it was always with all models. Remember, there is no iPhone Finnish, Malaysian, Taiwanese, American assembly. No such and there was no! If the seller or the store convinces about the opposite, do not believe - you are cheating and it is not original phone ().

Updated! Apple launched an iPhone assembly in India. However, now the production facilities of this plant do not go to any comparison with China. So, at the moment, the chance to meet the "Indian" iPhone is very small (but it is still there). Remember this and, if that, do not be surprised :)

By the way, looking at rear panel Smartphone, we will see "Assembled in China". That in the literal translation means - "assembled in China."

Why there? There is a large number of reasons to choose China as a "producer country" iPhone.

Let's take a look only for some of them:

• Cheap labor. With such a population, the lack of working hands is clearly not felt.
• Ayphons are in colossal demand in order to cover it, it is necessary to produce them in huge quantities. In China, this is possible.
• If you build an assembly in another country, for example, the United States, then the cost of issuing the 1st unit of products will grow several times (insurance, wages, logistics), and the price of the final product will increase accordingly.
• Production tax is one of the lowest.
• The extraction of rare-earth metals (used in the production of equipment) is about 90%, that is, in the rest of the world - only about 10%! Also, the state limits the export of these elements.

Of course, this is not all the arguments and arguments in favor of China as the country of manufacturer. Although these are enough with interest to understand why the most technological and wanted gadget is going to the PRC.

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What is there behind the scenes?

For loud applause, calculated to the smallestly presentation, stylish design and ability to submit your product in an elegant snow-white package, there is a work tens of thousands of people. To each iPhone put the hands of workers of one of the most large-scale factories in the world - factory Pegatron..

Journalist edition Bloomberg. Visited one of the most secret objects of Apple. Factory, which is responsible for the production of iPhone.

Pegatron doors were not accidentally opened. The corporation was repeatedly accused of and unbearable working conditions: the absence of due protection for workers, violation of safety standards and a number of other points that are not allowed in a civilized enterprise.

Hard account

At the entrance you are waiting for a man and a woman in the hands of which metal detectors for checking things and the presence of hidden cameras; Turnstiles and special scanner.

The factory introduced a rigid registration system: the fact of the arrival and leaving from the workplace is fixed in two seconds.

On account each second.
"Big John", John Sheu, President Pegatron

After passing the control, the string of workers rises along a huge staircase, which is protected by a soft grid to avoid accidents and prevent suicide attempts. Then every worker puts on Rob: hairs for hair, slippers with abrasive soles, pink bathrobes and, necessarily, Badi.

Smooth at 9 o'clock 20 minutes Conveyor lines running. Six-minute roll call and time to go to the machine. In the absence of any of the employees, the arrangement of the conveyor belt is reorganized.

City - production

Pegatron is a huge complex whose area is comparable to 90 soccer fields. It employs 50,000 people. Fire part, police station, cafeteria, lawns, weathered in the characteristic style of Chinese architecture, huge corps are a full city.

But the impressive scale of the buildings are not related to the wage of an ordinary employee. It still remains too low.

Despite the desire of a number of workers to work overtime, the Pegatron administration is forced to refuse such a petition (by official version). Nevertheless, according to the reporting period from September to October, the factory still has cases of overtime.

The reason for such workshop is an insufficient level of payment.

Wage

Back in 2013, the average labor norm in the plant was 80 hours a week. Now this indicator is reduced up to 60 hours. For a lunch break now stands out for 50 minutes. The electronic pass and taking into account the work of each employee, and regular tight checks on the side of Apple.

Only over the past year on the territory of factories collaborating with the company, about 640 inspections were carried out and the working conditions of about 1.6 million workers around the world were considered.

Let's go back to the question of the average wages. The Pegatron administration is proud that the financial part has become much more transparent, and the size of the salaries of ordinary employees is slightly, but grew.

The worker of the automated conveyor belt, the task of which lies in tracking the information board, receives about 2020 yuan per month (about 20,700 rubles).

The responsible for assembling the iPhone (Pegatron is collaborating not only with Apple) workers get from 4,200 to 5,500 yuan (from 43 100 to 56,400 rubles) depending on overtime. For comparison: the cost of iPhone 6S in China is 4488 yuan (46 000 rubles).

The administration of the plant actively undertakes to improve the working conditions of its employees. I would like to believe that 12-13 hour working hours, forced night shifts and an extremely low level of wages - problems that remained in the past. And it did this administration not only because it is afraid of inspections and control by the authorities, and with the understanding that human labor should be grateful.

Who knows, maybe the era of comfortable campuses with relaxing rooms, a swimming pool and restrooms will sooner or later get to the workshops of the Pegatron plant. [Bloomberg]

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Apple is one of the largest and most famous companies for making smartphones, laptops and other techniques. Most of the owners of the iPhones are confident that their apparatus is produced in America. No wonder the back on the lid there is an entry on english language With their production in California. However, is it really? And where do smartphones really produce for Russia, Belarus, Ukraine, Kazakhstan and other countries?

Delegated production of iPhone

Today, the production of delegation and division of labor is observed. What does it mean? This means that the full cycle plants today are crowded as unprofitable. Thus, asking himself a question where one or another product is produced, we must understand that there is no such place where the development would be carried out, the details and components would be made and ready-made devices were collected.

The most important principle of companies - profit. Therefore, only the benefit is calculated. Where it is more profitable - there is a production. The exception can only be the main office of the company - the reputation assumes its location in the major city of economically developed country. So confidence in the company will be higher.

Therefore, there is nothing surprising in the fact that the development of iPhones occurs in one place, the details and components are made at the factory elsewhere, and the assembly of the finished product is in the third.

Where do real iPhones come from

There are two opinions from where original iPhones come to Russia.

Apple main office in California

The first opinion is optimistic - devices come to us from America. This is hard to disagree with this, because Apple's head office is located in Cupertino (California, USA). Design is being developed here, decisions are made on launching lines and equipping new iPhones, software equipment is being developed. You can say, in America there is a heart and mind of the company EPPL.

Foxconn plant in China

The second opinion is pessimistic. More than once I had to hear that the Russian, Belarusian and Kazakhstani market phones come from China. And this opinion also has the right to life. The fact is that the final assembly of the phone is really in China at Foxconn plants, Pegatron and Wistron, so all iPhones originals can be called chinese. Reasons why we get phones collected in China, several:

• inexpensive production;
• cheap labor (amazing, but a person who collects the most expensive devices receives no more than $ 300 per month);
• low taxes;
• proximity of minerals necessary for the production of phones - rare-earth metals;
• only in China it is possible to produce products in such huge quantities.

About Foxconn

Do not think that Foxconn is a plant that makes exclusively Apple products. In fact, this is a huge production of the Taiwan company Hon Hai Precision Industry Co. This giant is among the ten largest employers in the world. Smaller factories and enterprises of this company are scattered around the world - they can be seen in the Czech Republic, America, Great Britain, Brazil, India. In 2010, a small plant opened in Russia.

The plant in China has repeatedly criticized for non-compliance with the rights of workers. The inspections have repeatedly revealed bad working conditions, it was also confirmed that Taiwanese owners used child labor. Were difficulties with the provision medical care employees. But, despite all the difficulties, only here you can make such a volume of complicated equipment.

Foxconn collect not only iPhones. From here, the prefix PlayStation from Sony, Canon cameras, e-books Amazon Kindle and PocketBook, motherboards For Intel and much more. Xiaomi, OnePlus, Infocus, Huawei, Nokia produce their phones here. In 2016, Foxconn bought a 66% stake in the Japanese company Sharp.

Pegatron: another collector

Taiwanese company Pegatron is also one of the production partners Apple, which has repeatedly participated in production smartphones iPhone.. They were Contract collectors iPhone 5C along with Wistron plants, and also received orders for the mass production of the sixth flagship.

WISTRON production in China

C 2017 Release apple smartphones Wistron plant was engaged, which is also located in China. To ensure the necessary production volumes, the plant financing was increased in the Chinese city of Kunshan from $ 135 to 200 million. In the past, iPhone 5C was already collected on the Wistron conveyors.

By the way, at the Wistron plant in China does not always happen smoothly. Despite the fact that only 20% of the iPhone 8 Plus is produced here, the recent scandal led to the company's share of 5%. Recall that, after which I ordered to suspend the minimum for 2 weeks the release of smartphones. Large fines received many members of the governing staff.

WISTRON production in India

In India, the iPhons are collected at two enterprises, right only one thing works, and the second is just being prepared for launch. Since 2017, the plant for the release of iPhones belongs to the Taiwanese company Wistron Corp. It is located in the Indian state of Carnatak in the south of the country. The first batch of the iPhones of the Indian assembly has descended from the conveyor in mid-May 2017. Photos of Indian assembly devices were published in The Indian Express. This is about models iPhone. SE with a 4-inch screen. It is very cheap phone Companies. The price of devices collected in India differs from the cost of produced in China. Local production allows Apple to sell an iPhone SE for only $ 220.

The second plant is based in the same state of Karnataka - in the Indian Technology Center in Bangalore. Here on new facilities will be released not only by iPhone SE, popular in the markets of developing countries, but also iPhone 6S and other models.

What is the original iPhone from America

We have already figured out which country produces an iPhone. And they found out that iPhones can not be called a purely American product, as the company positions. We will figure it out now, as things are doing with the originality.

There is an opinion that each company keeps all its development in great secret. It would be logical to assume that the image of iPhones is conquered by the fact that all the details of these devices are original and produced Apple. But how are things really?

Order for the manufacture of A11 Bionic processors for iPhone 8, 8 Plus and iPhone X received Taiwanese company TSMC

Not only are telephones collect in China with cheap workforce, so it turns out, and each component of the iPhone is created at the factories of other companies. It is exactly the screen for your favorite iPhone. A11 BIONIC processors for iPhone 7, iPhone 8 and iPhone X are made in Taiwanese factories. Also, TSMC received 100% of orders for Apple A12 single-chip systems, which will be the basis for new iPhones this year. The cameras do the same Samsung. It means that the brand is not at all American.

Despite the enormous popularity of iPhones, many potential buyers have no idea how to choose the right model. After all, in addition to gigabytes of memory, color and cost matters and on cellular networks of which countries it is adapted.

Therefore, before buying a new or used iPhone, we strongly recommend finding out, in which country it was purchased (or was originally intended). If the seller does not have such data, you can find this information yourself, having studied it service numbers. They mean on the back of the box, so even if it goes sealed to the factory film, you can not open it to check the entire feeder. In the case with a used iPhone, be sure to check the data indicated on the box and prescribed in the settings of the smartphone itself. You can find them in the appropriate menu.
You can also find IMEI on the phone itself. The iPhone 6s, as in the old models, IMEI is registered on the SIM card slot. 6 or 6 Plus - on the revolving part of the case.
Plus to all "break"IMEI yet You can typing universal for all phones combination: * # 06 #. When this code is not determined, it is likely that this iPhone They tried to "unlock" (ie, untie from a biennium contract with a specific foreign operator), and the attempt was unsuccessful. Such a device cannot be used and it makes no sense to buy it. Now it will suit except like a donor of spare parts.

If at least one of the mentioned codes prescribed in different places does not coincide, then this iPhone probably repaired and it is not known how serious damage was. It is uniquely better to refrain from buying such a smartphone, even when the cost of it is very tempting.

We analyze the data

So, the initial data we found and checked. Now proceed to the study of information hiding behind codes.

First we enter our serial number - F2LnCrWBG5QR in search engine on the site - http://www.chipmunk.nl/cgi-fast/applemodel.cgi. As you can see this iPhone produced in 2014 at the Chinese Foxconn plant. So it is definitely an original device.

Used gadget can be additionally checked by connecting to a computer, and running the company application - iTunes. Select the iPhone in the device list and click the Overview tab. The program will issue basic information about the smartphone.
But what gives checking on a special resource of the manufacturer - checkcoverage.apple.com. Here you can enter the search field as IMEI and the serial number - the data issued by the system will look like the same.
Green tick near the first point of the list - warranty that this iPhone purchased legally. True, the period of one-year technical support on it is already expired, and therefore the smartphone was bought and activated over a year ago. When buying 6S, the guarantee must be valid, because Iphones of this series came out quite recently - in mid-September.

In addition, at the serial number, you can immediately identify the restored smartphone (or refurbished) - in this case standard Coda The prefix is \u200b\u200badded - 5k. At such gadgets often make an additional discount, and if the restoration work was performed at the factory - the manufacturer - do not fear. However, if such a gadget does not match the IMEI ciphers on the housing, box and in the settings, it is possible that it was assembled illegally from several broken or recessed original devices. It is not even necessary to speak about the reliability of his work, but about buying - especially.

It also makes sense to find out, for the conditions of which country, the selected iPhone is adapted to understand whether such a gadget will work in your homeland.

So, for example, the models created for the markets of mainland countries support 16 LTE networks, European or Asian models-and 20 LTE, and these are almost all world operators.

So, to find out for the market of which country is made by the phone - we are looking for the model / batch number (again, on the box or in the settings of the iphone itself).
We are interested in letters before the fraction at the end, in our example it is RU. It is easy to guess what Russia is meant. So, this smartphone has been checking for compliance with the requirements of PCT and will certainly work with all national operators. To determine other countries, use the table below. Based on the table, considered as another example of an iPhone, with the asscription LL - next to the model number, created for sale in the US market. Finally, we note that automatic free Services Do not always correctly display information about iPhone. But this does not mean that all other methods described are also unreliable. For funny confidence, apply all possible test methods to make sure to eliminate the likelihood of purchasing a fake or blocked (stolen, repaired) apparatus.

Country of purchase and warranty

The clarification of the acquisition location is also important if the time for free warranty service has not yet passed, and you apply for it. We draw your attention to the fact that if the country of purchase and the place of service is not coincided, you may refuse the services, referring to the Apple's liability location. Here is the writing from the official source: In other words, where the iPhone bought - there and repair. It is clear that such a policy is associated with essential inconveniences for the user. Calculated for the fact that no one wants for a long time Wake up and forwarding the device over the ocean. Most likely, the buyer will incur gadget to local service centerAnd for the same money, without extra nerves, will quickly eliminate breakdown.

Almost everyone dreams of acquiring an apple gadget, but for some, the price becomes an insurmountable obstacle to the dream. Many users buy phones not official dealers Apple. This is due primarily to the fact that the price of such gadgets is much cheaper, and in addition, you can get a cherished iPhone much earlier than it appears in official stores.

But do not forget that buying an iPhone through Apple's website or in the official store, you will definitely get PCT - a device that is specifically adapted to work in your country. If you purchased a phone with a "gray" dealer, then you may have a number of problems.

Where to look for an iPhone model

To determine the country for which the iPhone was made, we will need its serial number. Narrow it we will know and where the device itself comes from.

You can do this directly in the store, looking at the information on the back of the box from the iPhone. Although we recommend checking the model number directly through the phone menu to exclude any inconsistency (such cases are not uncommon).

To do this, you need to enable iPhone, go to "Settings", find the "Basic" section, and further to the item "On this Device".

After you found a serial number you can go in two ways:

1. A light way to determine the "homeland" of the apple gadget is to use the site. You only need to enter the full number of the model of your phone, and find out all the information you need about the origin of your phone and the presence or absence of binding to a specific operator.
2. If there is no possibility to check the phone through the site, you can learn the information you are interested in yourself. The model number of the device consists of four letters and three digits, but, in order to determine which countries your iPhone arrived from which country, you will need only the last two letters. For example, if the model number looks like this - MC354LL, then you need to pay attention to the letters ll.

Decryption of the iPhone Model Number

• A - Canada
• AB - UAE, Saudi Arabia
• AE - UAE, Bahrain, Kuwait, Qatar, Saudi Arabia
• AH - Bahrain, Kuwait
• B - United Kingdom or Ireland
• BZ - Brazil
• C - Canada
• CH - China
• CN - Slovakia.
• CZ - Czech Republic
• D - Germany
• DN - Holland, Austria, Germany
• E - Mexico
• Her - Estonia
• ET - Estonia
• F - France
• FB - Luxembourg
• FS - Finland
• FD - Liechtenstein, Austria, or Switzerland
• GR - Greece
• HB - Israel
• HN - India
• IP - Italy
• J - Japan
• KH - China, South Korea
• KN - Denmark or Norway
• KS - Finland or Sweden
• LA - Peru, Ecuador, Honduras, Guatemala, Colombia, Salvador
• Le - Argentina
• LL - USA
• LP - Poland.
• LT - Lithuania
• LV - Latvia
• LZ - Paraguay, Chile
• MG - Hungary
• My - Malaysia
• NF - Luxembourg, Belgium, France
• PK - Finland, Poland
• PL - Poland.
• PM - Poland.
• PO - Portugal
• PP - Philippines
• QL - Italy, Spain, Portugal
• QN - Denmark, Norway, Sweden, Iceland
• RK - Kazakhstan
• RM - Russia or Kazakhstan
• RO - Romania
• RP - Russia
• RR - Russia
• RS - Russia
• RU - Russia
• SE - Serbia.
• SL - Slovakia.
• SO - South Africa
• SU - Ukraine
• T - Italy
• TA - Taiwan
• TU - Turkey
• UA - Ukraine
• X - Australia
• X - New Zealand
• Y - Spain
• ZA - Singapore
• ZD - Germany, Belgium, Luxembourg, Netherlands, Austria, France, Switzerland, Monaco
• ZP - Hong Kong, Macau

Iphon check on unlock

In many countries, the iPhone is sold specifically locked under a specific telephone operator. In this case, the use of the device in other countries may be limited. There is an opportunity to eliminate this problem and use a new phone, but one way or another it requires additional time and money.

To make sure your iPhone will function on the territory of your country normally, it is better to check when buying from where your apple gadget is brought, and whether it is locked on some particular operator.