Motorola: UK manufacturing a possibility Motorola's flagship Moto X is already made in the USA, and Mr Woodside said "products at a higher price point can support the cost of being manufactured in the US." Apple is also making some of its computers in America, and is reportedly intending to move some chip manufacture to New York. Google, which owns Motorola, has also indicated that it wants to make devices in its home market. "One of the big problems we saw coming in [to Motorola] about the industry is the cost of high quality devices," he said. Access to the mobile internet is really vital yet the quality of devices at reasonable prices is really bad. He said typical consumers with £150 to spend on a mobile phone were forced to use software that was two or three generations out of date and ran on cheap hardware. We really built this to compete with the iPhone: it's got a 25per cent bigger display than the iPhone 5s, Qualcomm's latest quad processor, 18 different combinations of backs and a guaranteed update to the latest Android experience. He claimed 10million Britons would be looking for a smartphone for less than £200 in the next year, and argued that while the Moto X had been focused on American audiences, the Moto G would be the first "truly global" product since Google bought the company, and said it could move the price of mobile phones.