iSuppli’s estimated breakdown cost for the Palm Pre prompted no small amount of discussion late last month, with their prediction of $138 in hardware and a further $32 in software and IP licensing costs. Now the analysts are back, offering their full Palm Pre teardown report for the bargain price of $1,999.
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We might be called My Pre, but that doesn’t mean we’ll stint on any other webOS smartphone Palm throw our way: that’s why we’re so interested to see what looks to be the company’s second handset to use the new platform. The Palm Eos was most definitely leak of the week, a candybar QWERTY handset [...]
We’re used to seeing gadgets torn apart and the sum value of their parts totted up, but it’s only the most hype-producing of tech that prompts such estimations prior to actual release. iSuppli have analyzed the known specifications of the Palm Pre, and come up with a build cost of just $138.
Given the assumption is [...]