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Originally Posted by wodin
That being said, I’ll look closer at the NC when the guys at XDA-Developers have and alternative OS to the NC’s crippled one.
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Based on the review of the XDA developers, the NC screen is even better than the Galaxy Tab while web browsing response is on par. They think by hacking this baby, with a price tag of $250, it will easily become the “Tablet of the Year”. With that being said, the hackability of NC is still to be worked out. Out of curiosity, I looked at the Bills of materials of the Galaxy Tab from iSupply and it costs $205 for just materials. Comparing NC and Galaxy Tab features and specifications, I estimated the cost for the NC as below:
item description....................................... ...Galaxy Tab...Nook Color
Screen (comparable IPS)..............................$57............. $57
Memory (Galaxy 16GB/1GB, NC 8GB/512MB).....$51............$25.5
Mechanical Components (similar)....................$15.22.......$15.22
User Interface (Similar control, NC no Gyro)..... $13.87.......$10.00
Battery (similar 4000mAh)............................. $10.6.........$10.60
RF/PA (NC WiFi only, no 3G).......................... $9.09.........$5.00
APS Processing (Galaxy 1 GHz, NC 800 MHz)..... $8.84.........$6.00
Blue Tooth/GPS (NC none)............................ $8.96..........$0.00
Camera (NC none)....................................... $7.95..........$0.00
Accessories (Similar charge, adaptor, cord)...... $7.11......... $7.11
Power Management IC (similar).......................$5.51......... $5.51
TOTAL MATERIAL COST:............................... $205.22..... .$152.1
The material cost doesn’t include manufacturing, inventory and other overhead attached to produce the device. Galaxy Tab 3G is selling for $600 and WiFi for $500; the Price to material cost ratio is ~ 2.92. The Nook Color is priced at $250 with a much lower price to material cost ratio of $1.64. The device is a huge bang for the buck based on the hardware. If the NC comes unlocked with full capability, at this price point, it’ll blow all the tablets including the Galaxy Tab away. Barnes and Noble is selling the hardware at an extremely low profit margin with the intent of selling more emagazines, periodicals and other e-content. With that in mind, they might try very hard to lock down the device so it can’t be easily hacked. They certainly don't want the competitor app such the kindle to be installted in their darling device. It’ll be very interesting to see what the XDA developers and the Nookdev community can do.