The Librem costs a lot! BLU was more reasonably priced. Not sure if they're still putting out new products.

https://shop.puri.sm/shop/librem-5-usa/

https://www.bluproducts.com/home/

Also relevant (since most iPhone manufacturing is not done in the US.)

https://fee.org/articles/a-made-in-america-iphone-would-cost...

Of course, that's a different goal from "making chips in the USA", which is done today, including the best-selling personal computer chips.

are we talking about assemble in the USA? any low labors cost country can assemble the phone. it doesn't have to be China. Foxconn already have a factory in India and Samsung in Vietnam.

design can be done in the USA like Apple. component like corning gorilla glass is made in the USA. chips can be produce in the USA with Intel IDM 2.0 or TSMC in Taiwan.

it will cost the same since you can outsource assembly

> are we talking about assemble in the USA?

No. Did you read the thread before asking?

> they both have semiconductor fabs!

>So how much do USA-made mobile phones cost?

this is your question and I asked if we are talking about assemble the phone in the USA or not. if not assemble in the USA then the cost won't change much.

USA-made is not USA-assembled.

> component like corning gorilla glass is made in the USA

Unfortunately, most GG in the world is made in China.

> any low labors cost country can assemble the phone

FYI, some parts of USA had already for a few years lower skilled labour costs than South China.

>Unfortunately, most GG in the world is made in China.

Corning manufactures Gorilla Glass in the United States, Japan, and Taiwan. - corning website:

https://www.corning.com/gorillaglass/worldwide/en/faqs.html#....

>FYI, some parts of USA had already for a few years lower skilled labour costs than South China.

good? not really sure what you trying to say. companies will always go to the low labor cost countries.

Corning has a huge plants in Hefei, and in other parts of China. All uncut GG I saw had "Made In China" on its packaging.

> good? not really sure what you trying to say. companies will always go to the low labor cost countries.

The point I wanted to make was exactly that they don't, even with US lower taxes added to that.

Samsung has a fab in Austin, so many of their devices have USA-made chips.

They’re talking about chips, which is the topic of the article. Not complete consumer electronics devices.