Casio Hitachi Mobile phones of Japan is the manufacturer of ALL Casio and Hitachi branded or trademarked (as the G'zOne trademark belongs to them) phones. UTStarcomm is the distributer in North America but has absolutely nothing to do with the manufacturing process. This phone is pure Casio design and Casio Hitachi made. UTStarcom does the distribution here because Casio does not have the service network set up and is not willing to meet the marketing requirements Verizon imposes on all manufacturers (Verizon forces all manufacturers with branded phones on their network to match a percentage of the total value Verizon spends on marketing the phone with their own marketing dollars) who wish to self brand their phones.
Casio may self brand in the future and introduce more of their products depending on how well this series of phones does. They are merely taking the cautious approach
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Casio Hitachi Mobile phones of Japan is the manufacturer of ALL Casio and Hitachi branded or trademarked (as the G'zOne trademark belongs to them) phones. UTStarcomm is the distributer in North America but has absolutely nothing to do with the manufacturing process. This phone is pure Casio design and Casio Hitachi made. UTStarcom does the distribution here because Casio does not have the service network set up and is not willing to meet the marketing requirements Verizon imposes on all manufacturers (Verizon forces all manufacturers with branded phones on their network to match a percentage of the total value Verizon spends on marketing the phone with their own marketing dollars) who wish to self brand their phones.
Casio may self brand in the future and introduce more of their products depending on how well this series of phones does. They are merely taking the cautious approach