Thread: Price of N900 Crazy or just me?
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ColonelKilkenny is offline ColonelKilkenny
2009-08-29 , 15:53
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Originally Posted by Milhouse View Post
5MP lenses, OMAP3 processors instead of OMAP2... components that costs a few dollars, do they really justify a $300+ price hike?
We do not know what the parts cost. We do not know what does it cost to create a handset. However, we do know that the cost for manufacturer != BoM.

Originally Posted by Milhouse View Post
Not when Nokia are marketing the N900 the way they are...
Ok, try stuffing that laptop of yours to pocket.

Originally Posted by Milhouse View Post
Android on a sub-$100 phone - if it does pretty much everything the N900 does, how is it that different to the N900?
Depends on hardware, depends on software, depends on all sorts of things (like how open the platform is etc.).
You can get pen and paper with few dollars and do pretty much everything with them as well. It's just much easier to surf on web which you don't have to draw before using it

Originally Posted by Milhouse View Post
Android is advancing in leaps and bounds, it has widespread device manufacturer support, and ARM-based CPUs are not expensive and becoming more powerful... once a low-price Android device hits the market it will become more difficult for Nokia to get away with charging N-series-type prices.
You do realize that Nokia has also very cheap Symbian models? Use them or use those low-price Androids from future if you want a low-end device. You won't get low-priced high-end devices because usually companies don't like to make negative profits.

Originally Posted by Milhouse View Post
But why do you equate low-price with "crapy hardware" - because you've become so accustomed to being ripped of at the high end? The iPhone 3GS has a bill of materials totalling $175. Work it out.
That's iPhone 3G BoM, not 3GS. And those are estimates. What about manufacturing costs? Logistics? What about support costs? Etc. Etc.
Last edited by ColonelKilkenny; 2009-08-29 at 15:56.