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Video: How the Apple iPad is made

Marketplace Shanghai Bureau Chief Rob Schmitz was recently given the opportunity to see how Foxconn builds iPads for Apple. He is only the second journalist to be allowed to visit Shenzhen’s Longhua factory floor. The video below gives us a short glimpse at some of the assembly process as well as the lives of the some 240,000 people who work […]

WSJ: Next iPhone to be thinner and lighter but more complicated to manufacture?

The Apple iPhone rumours continue to swirl. Citing “some suppliers of components to Apple,” The Wall Street Journal is reporting that the next iPhone will be thinner and lighter than the iPhone 4 and come with an 8MP camera. It will also use wireless baseband chips from Qualcomm rather than the Infineon chips found in the current iPhone 4. One […]