Thread: Nexus 7: Is lack of SD card port a deal breaker for you?
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Old 07-03-2012, 10:41 AM   #141
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Originally Posted by afv011 View Post
Margins are very tight. Once a company I worked for was even looking at the number of screws used on a mobile phone to reduce costs - and a screw costs way less than $2, so $2 is not an insignificant amount of money, especially if you expect to ship large volumes of devices. I also would prefer to have SD slot, but I understand that some sacrifices have to be made to reach the $200 price point, and I rather they sacrified the SD slot than skimp on the CPU or screen or RAM.
Fewer people use the front camera (not "no people", just "fewer people") and it is a more expensive component than the SD slot.
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