Editing VTech (section)

==Core businesses==
===Electronic learning products (ELPs)===
VTech was among the pioneers of the ELP industry, beginning in 1980 with a unit designed to teach children basic [[spelling]] and [[mathematics]].<ref>{{cite news|title=The VTech phenomenon|url=https://www.forbes.com/global/1998/1019/0115044a.html|newspaper=Forbes|date=19 October 1998}}</ref>

Today VTech makes both individual standalone products and platform products that combine a variety of [[Virtual console|console]]s with different [[software]].<ref name = "Silicon's Search For Youth" />

Its [[V.Smile]] TV Learning System, which was launched in 2004, established what the company calls platform products as an important category within its ELPs.<ref>{{cite web|title=V.Smile TV Learning System for kids|date=21 January 2004 |url=http://www.gizmag.com/go/3098/|publisher=Gizmag}}</ref> Latest additions to the platform product range are MobiGo,<ref>{{cite web|title=VTech MobiGo 2 and InnoTab 2 Now Available for Pre-Order |url=https://www.vtech.com/en/press_release/2012/vtech-mobigo-2-and-innotab-2-now-available-for-pre-order/ |publisher=VTech |access-date=2020-07-20 |date=18 Jul 2012}}</ref> InnoTab Max,<ref>{{cite web|title=VTech Welcomes 4th Generation Children's Learning Tablets to Award-Winning InnoTab Family, Including First to Feature Android Learning Content|url=http://www.vtech.com/en/press/press-release/2014/676-vtech-welcomes-4th-generation-childrens-learning-tablets-to-award-winning-innotab-family-including-first-to-feature-android-learning-content|publisher=VTech|date=5 June 2014}}</ref><ref>{{cite news|title=VTech brings teacher-endorsed Android games to its InnoTab Max tablet for kids|url=http://www.gizmag.com/vtech-innotab-max-android/32451/|newspaper=Gizmag|date=8 June 2014}}</ref> Kidizoom [[Smart Watch]]<ref>{{cite news|title=There Is Now a 'Smartwatch' for Kids|url=http://mashable.com/2014/02/17/kidi-zoom-smartwatch-for-kids|newspaper=Mashable|date=18 February 2014}}</ref> and InnoTV (StorioTV in Europe Excluding United Kingdom).<ref>{{Cite web|url = https://www.vtech.com/en/press_release/2015/vtech-introduces-innotv-perfect-first-educational-gaming-system-for-preschoolers-packed-with-educator-supported-learning-games-for-under-us70/|title = VTech Global Site| date=12 October 2015 }}</ref><ref>{{Cite web|url = http://www.vtechkids.com/brands/brand_view/innotv|title = VTech Toys US Site}}</ref>

===Telecommunication (TEL) products===
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VTech introduced the world's first 900&nbsp;MHz and 5.8&nbsp;GHz cordless phones in 1991 and 2002 respectively.{{fact|date = April 2024}} As of 2014,  the company was the world's largest manufacturer of cordless telephones, according to [[MZA Ltd|MZA]] (as reported by VTech).<ref>{{cite web|title=Annual Report 2014|url=http://www.vtech.com/images/stories/vtech/pdf/reports/AR2014_eng.pdf|publisher=VTech|pages=5}}{{better source|date = April 2024}}</ref>{{third party inline|date = April 2024}}

As of 2014, VTech, in its sale of both AT&T and VTech branded phones and accessories, was the largest player in the industry <ref name="auto"/>{{Clarify|date=September 2019}}, in North America, according to [[MarketWise Consumer Insights]] (as reported by VTech).<ref>{{cite web|title=Annual Report 2014|url=http://www.vtech.com/images/stories/vtech/pdf/reports/AR2014_eng.pdf|publisher=VTech|pages=4}}{{better source|date = April 2024}}</ref>{{third party inline|date = April 2024}} Outside North America, as of this date,{{when|date = April 2024}} VTech mainly supplied products to [[fixed-line]] telephone operators, brand names, and distributors on an [[original design manufacturing|ODM]] basis.
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===Contract manufacturing services (CMS)===
VTech started manufacturing products for other brand names on an original equipment manufacturing [[Oem|(OEM)]] basis in the 1980s and CMS became one of the company's core businesses in the early 2000s.

VTech has been identified as one of the world's top 50 [[electronics manufacturing services]] providers,<ref name="MMI">{{cite web|title=The MMI Top 50 for 2014|url=http://www.mfgmkt.com/mmi-top-50.html|url-status=dead|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20060317151305/http://www.mfgmkt.com/mmi-top-50.html|archive-date=17 March 2006|access-date=8 June 2015|publisher=Manufacturing Market Insider|df=dmy-all}}</ref> providing electronics manufacturing services for medium-sized companies. VTech's CMS has focused on four main product categories: professional audio equipment, [[Switched-mode power supply|switching mode power supplies]], wireless products, and [[solid-state lighting]].<ref name="Reports">{{cite web|title = VTech Global Site|url = https://www.vtech.com/en/our-businesses/contract-manufacturing-services/|publisher = VTech}}</ref>