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Old 07-30-2010, 05:32 PM   #28
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Originally Posted by brecklundin View Post
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...
I take iSuppli's numbers with a huge grain of salt.
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