Thursday June 19, 2008

- The iPhone costs Apple only $100.- - Lionel - 23:13:55

Source : EETimes

It is a product at the center of all the attention, the iPhone 3G, which makes it the object of all criticisms and all attention.
The latest analysis is the estimate of the manufacturing costs of the device. It is estimated to be less than $100 compared to the $170 for the first offering.
The details of this estimate are not given, but one can suppose that since its initial release the price of the touchscreens, the most expensive part has significantly dropped, while the plastic back must allow the savings of a few cents compared to the aluminium back, and also that the price of the Flash memory has fallen.
By extrapolating this to the iPod Touch of which we speak in another news during the day, it could see its price quickly reducing, at least in the price of the entry level, since the cost of the chips memory falls the capacity is ever increasing capacity.

[translation by crispin]