IPhone: Country-producer. How to determine?

IPhone today can be called the most popular gadget. The world is experiencing a real "apple" boom - millions of people have already acquired a new device, as many dream about it. Such fame he acquired through quality and prestige. Some iPhone need only to maintain the image of a rich man in the eyes of society. Such people buy it only on the Apple website or in the company store. Others, seeking to save money, acquire "apple-apple" through gray dealers. What is the difference, we will discuss later in the article.

How it all began

The country of the iPhone manufacturer is America, everyone knows it. The world famous Apple company and the legendary Steve Jobs released and developed this gadget. They conceived it and implemented it. And what about serial production?

When the iPhone became popular, the producer country had very few people interested. In Russia, he was heard about at the stage of release of the fourth generation of the phone, when it was purchased by ex-president Dmitry Medvedev. And since then, within six years, the demand for a gadget has only grown on domestic spaces.

Meanwhile, the creators, in order not to lose relevance, release all new series of "apple" gadget.

Chinese analogues

After the release of the iPhone 6 market, the smartphone market has replenished with Chinese flagships. The quality of materials and technical equipment of the sixth series repeated the original model, but the price was more affordable. The owners of the American version looked squeamish at the "Chinese", believing that the eastern factories can not raise anything worthwhile. And here they were wrong. Many models in this segment deserve praise and have quite worthy characteristics.

"IPhone 6": manufacturer

The country that produces the gadget of this model is Taiwan. The company that collects "iPhone 6" is Foxconn (Taiwan). Its enterprises are in China. And in addition to Apple products, it makes cameras for Canon, popular game consoles, mobile phones of a number of well-known brands. Also the company is engaged in the production of motherboards both with its own logo, and for the glorified Intel.

Foxconn, created back in 1974, began with the creation of small plastic parts for TVs, and after fourteen years it grew to the opening of its own factory in China. Now it has subsidiaries, it cooperates with large electronics companies and components for it.

Why is the iPhone, the producer country of which is geographically located in the other hemisphere, is being collected in China? It's all about scale. Foxconnt City - this is a whole town with a workforce of two hundred and thirty thousand people, working schedule which is twelve hours a day and six days a week. There operates a whole system with certain rules and working schemes. And in the US, there simply is not a lot of unemployed engineers. As research shows, it will take about a year, while it will be possible to collect the necessary number of workers, in China it will take two weeks to complete.

Small clarification

The iPhone (whose manufacturing country is in fact Taiwan, but with manufacturing facilities in China) can not be called completely Chinese. There are also purely American components in it:

1. Glass is produced at the Corning plant in Kentucky.
2. The software is developed by the data center (North Carolina).
3. Semiconductors are manufacturing a factory in Texas.

How to determine the country of the manufacturer of iPhone?

If you bought your smartphone not from an authorized dealer and after reading interested in its origin, information about the device will help. On the iPhone package you need to find the serial number. If you have not found it, refer to the phone menu. In the "Settings" (the "Basic" tab) there is a sub-item "About the device", it contains a number, usually consisting of numbers and four letters.

To check the country of origin, it is important for us to remember the last two letters. The Internet will easily find a list that decrypts all their combinations. For example, if the number is MC352LL, then LL says that the phone came from the USA. The Chinese copy will be given the designation CH.

Earlier it was believed that the IMEI code helps to calculate the country where the iPhone was manufactured. For this, a special service was used, where the device code was entered from fifteen characters. As the results showed, the region's data contained in the IMEI differ from the information on the iPhone's batch number. In this regard, Numberingplans will help determine only the brand and model of the phone, it is useless to identify the country of origin.

Budget devices

As mentioned the iPhone (whose country of origin is Taiwan or China) is a very high-quality copy, as these countries are directly involved in the production of the original. Therefore, there are many Chinese, but worthy of the executed "apple-phones". Outwardly, most of the replicas are virtually identical to the original Apple. If you just want to show off with an iPhone, then it's unlikely that someone will convince you of a substitution without holding it in your hands.

But you can issue a copy:

• Materials, which in relation to the American version of lower quality and cost;
• The name is some Goothone i5s, for example;
• The inner shell of the smartphone, which is noticeably weaker than the real one and works on the "Android" platform, stylized under iOS;
• External arrangement of the device (quality of plastic, metal and glass);
• Quality of the camera.

Finally

How to check the country of an iPhone manufacturer on UnLock? Many countries sell iPhones with UnLock mode for a certain telephone operator. This makes it impossible to use the device in another country. Before the summer of two thousand and eleven, knowing the name of the country for which the gadget was made, anyone could determine whether the phone was unlocked officially or not. Now it is difficult in connection with the launch of the sale of devices from Apple with the category , ранее считавшейся строго залоченным под определенного оператора. Factory Unlocked , previously considered strictly locked under a certain operator. Some mobile communication companies that officially sell "apple" products began to provide services to remove the lock (each on its own terms).

To be sure that your gadget will function fully where you live, the first thing you need to know when buying: from where the iPhone is brought (the country, the manufacturer) and whether it is designed for a certain mobile provider.