The Lumia 900 is a hell of a phone. It’s also cheap, but it’s not for lack of quality parts: iSuppli crunched the numbers and determined it costs $US217 to build and manufacture. That’s more than the iPhone.
Oh, analysts! You can somehow make the wackiest ideas ever sound somewhat reasonable. Never change! Like the latest projections from iSuppli, which claims that Windows Phone 7 market share will overtake iPhone in 2015.
That jaw-dropping $US79 price point on Amazon’s new Kindle just got a little nuttier: It turns out the thing costs a $US84.25 to manufacture, according to an exclusive report to Mainstreet by serial gear teardowner iSuppli.
Six generations on, and the cost of materials has decreased dramatically from the first-ever iPod Nano, which cost $US89.97 – for just 2GB. The 8GB version that came out recently has parts totalling $US43.73.
iSuppli has already revealed that the Nexus One parts cost $US174.15 and the iPhone 3GS $US178.96 (including manufacturing), but the Droid? Thanks to a recent teardown, we now know Motorola’s more generous, with parts totalling $US179.11.
Google Nexus One Carries $US174.15 Materials Cost, iSuppli Teardown Reveals El Segundo, Calif., January 8, 2010-With its new Nexus One, Google Inc. has taken many of the latest smart-phone innovations and combined them in a single product that manages to be both cutting edge and cost competitive, according to a teardown conducted by iSuppli Corp.
