Researcher, iSuppli has confirmed that Nokia N8’s components cost is similar to a 16GB iPhone 4. iSuppli who did the tear-down analysis claims the complete N8 hardware costs $187.47, which is same as iPhone 4’s $187.51. The most expensive component in the phone is N8’s 3.5-inch AMOLED display and touchscreen that costs $39.25, followed […]
Each Palm Pre costs $170, says iSuppli
iSuppli, popular for giving down the estimates of gadgets has now set its eye on the yet to be released Palm Pre. By comparing to the Q2 component and assembly pricing, they have concluded that Pre takes around $170 to make, which includes $138 of hardware cost, under $10 of manufacturing and basic test […]
iSuppli: iPod Shuffle costs $22 to build
The company that has developed a habit of calculating the hardware costs of devices has surfaced again, this time claiming the costs of the third gen iPod Shuffle. As with any other previous estimates given by them, this one too excludes the R&D and marketing expenses. Anyways, here’s the figure. It costs just under […]
iSuppli: Blackberry Storm hardware costs come at $203
You know, deriving price of the handsets on the basis of hardware purchases is actually baseless but iSuppli loves to do it, and so do we. This time they have stripped down Blackberry Storm and calculated the cost of each component present in the device. The study says that $203 is the total cost […]