Thread: Amazon Unlocks Fire Phone & Slashes Price
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Old 12-11-2014, 05:52 AM   #211
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Originally Posted by rcentros View Post
I don't know about that. What is the cost of the hardware for their $199 phone? I know the labor is probably in the neighborhood of $4 or $5 a unit (if that).
According to IHS, about $201.

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The BOM of the Amazon Fire Phone equipped with 32 gigabytes of NAND flash memory amounts to $201, according to a preliminary estimate by the Teardown Mobile Handsets Intelligence Service at IHS Technology. The cost of production rises to $205 when the $4 manufacturing expense is added.
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