Fair enough. But that contradicts your original post when you claimed:

They won't be making any profit if they're selling more units, but each of the units at a loss.


Most of the factors that contribute to the higher cost (institutions in European, structure of taxes, etc.) are completely outside of enTourage's control. As for the rest, there is an added cost to supporting devices halfway across the globe and ~$100 seems about right (again, probably conservative).

Again, I don't think that the eDGe will penetrate European markets at it's current price, and I doubt that they're expecting very many European sales... but I'm pretty sure that there isn't much opportunity for them to lower their costs in order to pass them onto consumers.

And as robot has noted, electronics in Central and Eastern Europe are much more expensive than the US, even from major manufacturers. My future roommate is coming from Bulgaria and we briefly discussed whether it made sense for her to wait to buy a laptop until after she arrived. When I sent her prices and specs on what something basic for a student would cost in the US, she was convinced that one of us was making a currency conversion error.