All the stories tagged with: foxconn
Foxconn hacked in protest against poor working conditions
02/09/2012, There is right now the moral question of whether Apple should be doing more in their capacity to help raise the working conditions of those at Foxconn, one of Apple’s major manufacturing partners, but this rather sensitive ground is not [...]
iPhone 5 details leaked by Foxconn employee?
01/25/2012, Another day, another iPhone 5 rumor. This time it’s supposedly from a Foxconn employee, claims 9to5mac. The website reported that the iPhone 5 is currently “geared for production”, with sample devices floating around. The sample devices reportedly feature a 4+ [...]
Foxconn set to double iPhone plant size
12/26/2011, Foxconn is about to hit a new world record – that is, doubling the size of its iPhone plant so that it ends up being the biggest in the world. Yes, the very same China-based Foxconn that saw several cases [...]
Foxconn producing next generation Kindle Fire tablets?
10/19/2011, While Amazon’s Kindle Fire tablets have yet to reach the hands of consumers, it looks like Amazon is already working on releasing the successor to the tablet. According to a report by Taiwanese industry insiders, DigiTimes, Foxconn Electronics has secured [...]
iPhone 4S (N90A) for real?
10/03/2011, Gizmodo has exclusive images of what could very well be the iPhone 4S, which frankly, remains under the “unicorn” category for many people since most of us out there would be craning our necks to see an iPhone 5 instead.
Amazon selects Foxconn to manufacture rumored 10-inch tablet
09/30/2011, Amazon might have set the tech world ablaze with their recent tablet announcement, which is the Amazon Kindle Fire (check out our hands-on), and we have word that the company’s next tablet which is a 10.1″ model that is tipped [...]
Another fire at Foxconn, no casualties reported
09/27/2011, If there’s one manufacturing plant that can’t seem to get enough of the press, it’s got to be Foxconn. Famous for manufacturing the iPhone and the iPad, but at the same time it is infamous for its workers’ harsh working [...]
Foxconn churns out 150,000 iPhone 5 handsets each day
09/07/2011, Talk about productivity – it seems that the iPhone 5, being one of the hottest keywords in search engines in recent weeks, will be out very, very soon – which is why anything associated with the iPhone 5 would have [...]
Foxconn to ship 20M iPads to Apple in Q3 2011
09/01/2011, The third quarter of the year will see Foxconn deliver up to 20 million iPads (when we mention iPads these days, obviously we’re talking about the iPad 2 and not its predecessor), at least that is what Taiwan-based DigiTimes claims. [...]
iPhone 5 proximity sensor spotted?
08/05/2011, While we can’t confirm if and when the next-generation iPhone will be arriving (some say September, some say October), what we have here is apparently a photograph of a component of the iPhone 5. To be more specific it’s the [...]
Foxconn to replace workers with a million robots
07/31/2011, Uh oh. It looks like a number of Foxconn workers days in the company are numbered. The founder and chairman of the company, Terry Gou has been reported as saying that Foxconn has plans to replace an unspecified amount of [...]
Another Foxconn worker commits suicide?
07/20/2011, I’m starting to wonder whether the Foxconn factory has some sort of nefarious powers behind it which tend to cause humans who work there to take their own life – after all, the most recent case where a worker fell [...]
Sharp and Chimei Innolux LCD manufacturing joint venture
07/19/2011, When it comes to the LCD display market, Samsung and LG have been known as the “big 2”, while other manufacturers such as Sharp and Chimei Innolux have been left behind. For those unfamiliar with Chimei Innolux, they are a [...]
