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Originally Posted by kjk
I'd be very surprised if they are even breaking even at that price point, unless their quarterly order volumes are in the millions.
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Ya might wanna refresh your memory on the iSuppli teardown costs of the K2 done well over a year ago now. Back then WITH 3G and it's associated overhead, the teardown was around $185 and the reader was something like $359 or whatever, so if the 3G is running ~$40 still and other components obviously dropping in price as well as R&D recovery since then, it could easily be that the K3 wifi device costs under $80 to build, even with the new display. FYI the cost of the wifi is likely under $2 hardware and all...