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dtplink
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Visors made by Flextronics

In the current Wired Magazine there is an article about outsourcing of manufacturing. Handspring makes none of their own products and it seems doesn't actually design them either. Flextronics makes Visors and probably Visorphones in plants around the world. Visors are probably made in Mexico. Flextronics has a big influence in the design (I think Ideo does design for some of them). Flextronics makes the XBox, HP printers, and Nokia cellphones. They crank them out at low cost and high speed. We get to do the quality control. Handspring is a marketing, sales and cusotmer service organization. If they fail at customer service they will be banta poodoo. I've so far been happy with my treatment.

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MarkEagle
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This isn't surprising... many "big name" companies outsource design and manufacturing., especially in the electronics field. I remember several years back reading that, at the time, there were only 3 actual manufacturers of laptops in the world (I'm sure that number has grown), yet everybody seemed to be selling them.

As for Handspring, I knew that Ideo designed the units (if I remember correctly, they (Hawkins) publicly stated it), based upon parameters supplied by HS (Ideo also designed several of the Palm units as well). My own VDx, purchased in January 2000, was manufactured in Malaysia.

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This isn't surprising... many "big name" companies outsource design and manufacturing


I know the feeling - my company has the competition making a product which we slap our sticker on and ship. I have also been told that kicker boat motors are all built by the same company - so I bought cheap - so far so good.
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