Smartphone is 1st Made in America

Texas Factory is now using smartphones and Americans. On manufacturing employment issues, our team made in America is back tonight with u. S. Workers who have made the world's first smartphone created here at home.

 They are issuing a challenge to China to assemble their phones abroad. David Muir shows how these Americans call the world to say that we're back. Reporter: 8000 miles way tonight, new smartphones, iphones - runs assembly lines in China addressed this tile factory. About to leave the line and they are the first to see it. Where were these phones made before? China. Now they are made here. Right here. Reporter: Arguing that makes business sense to make these smartphones here. Shipping costs in China reduced. Chinese wages rising. DeBose tabitha veteran looking longer work. It was boom, boom, pop. I have a job. Now you are running the place. Reporter: 14 lines already. They are still hiring. 2,000 jobs in late August? Correct.

 Reporter: In a factory actually built 20 years ago for cell phones old school. Those jobs outsourced to China. This factory was dark? Of course. Reporter: latest phone from Motorola, made in America. This looks like it belongs in the Smithsonian. Reporter: The old beside the new. This is a slight upgrade. Reporter: What about all those small parts, thousand semiconductor inside the smartphone. Either they did here? Oregon, Utah, Texas, Massachusetts and Maine. Lots of America on this phone? Yes bike is x you can see here on the fact u. S. You're seeing it here before they are sold. Reporter: Sylvia, another new hire. You're the last person touching the phone before it comes in the box? Yes Reporter: One more point of sale. Who has not lost the ball with your smart phone. All you have to do is shake twice, the camera zooms in and you're ready.

A new smartphone photo made in America.