[MTCB Android Head Units Q&A] ptclabs:
It would be bad for some importers to let everyone know the name. Anyone with google and a day to waste could figure it out though I think. Just keep calling and asking companies which ones they make until you find the right one. Some get defensive and you have to get the sales people to talk to their engineering department to say it is not dangerous to let a customer know what mcu version they are using. If they cannot answer the question more than likely this "factory" you are talking to is actually 3 sales people sitting in a rented apartment, that makes nothing.

Then you have to weed though the people saying they are making them when they are actually buying them from a different factory. Once you get to a factory that has several hundred people working there ask them what they actually produce as far as cases injection molding etc. If you find one that does everything, you just found the real maker. Except not the software maker, motherboard etc and it continues. It is pretty much how every business transaction is with china...I have been doing this crap since the 90s it gets old.

I am not saying buying from a reseller is bad but it causes problems. While a ebay reseller can add about 100$ profit per item. A chinese reseller selling to another reseller can only add about 5$ per.The problem comes when a unit is broken. They cannot refund it as it was more than they made on the order.

If you want to know who it is, just spend the time to find them. They are out there. If someone has a reason to know who they are, just pm me. This one through me for a loop because their name has nothing to do with GS.

Ahh screw it. The cases are made, and the units are assembled by Zest. If you can tell me how Zest has anything to do with GS let me know. They do not make the motherboard memory or software. They do make pretty much everything else. They also sell components to other factories, which is why you are seeing similar faceplates and such. I have not sent someone to put eyes on their factory yet, but they do not seem to be deceitful. I will ask one of my friends to swing by there though. Is it possible that they are lying about making the components trying to get a sale? oh yeah like I said welcome to China.

Now I have to convince them to let me speak with their component makers, which they are extremely defensive about for good reason. So this goes up through their chain of command to get approved on why some idiot from Japan wants to speak to their motherboard and software suppliers....It is a process. The poor sales girl yesterday was so frustrated she was almost in tears. "I do not know how to handle this".... They are defensive about this stuff as everyone is trying to copy everyone else in China. I used to design manifolds for Turbo cars in Japan. It would literally be three months until 3 other factories already had it copied (sometimes poorly) and selling on ebay. It happens so fast because their workers quit and start their own company taking the knowledge with them, or move to another factory with stolen cads to start with a "bonus". China has a huge labor problem, it has for a while.

How did all these spin off brands get started like KLD etc? Well just in the way in the last paragraph. This is how business is conducted in China. For good or for bad.