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Originally Posted by booklover6
In that case, even your quoted price of $249 seems very, very high, when you can get the Fire 6 for $99-$119. But I guess it all depends on one's device needs.
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It's not really high, because it costs Amazon around $205 just to build one.
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Amazon may have sold its first tablet at a slight loss to gain traction in the market, but the online retail giant appears to be going a different route with its first smartphone, the Amazon Fire Phone.
In fact, Amazon looks to be making a tidy profit on its first generation of Fire Phones, right in line with phone makers selling handsets at similar prices, according to IHS Technology.
The research firm did a teardown of the Amazon Fire Phone, which retails at the unsubsidized price of $650, estimating a bill of materials (BOM) of $201 for the handset. Tack on an extra $4 for manufacturing and Amazon is still pocketing a tidy $445 per phone sold, according to IHS.
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