iSuppli says T-Mobile G1 costs $144 to make, nothing to love

brpFiled under: a href=http://www.engadget.com/category/cellphones/ rel=tagCellphones/a, a href=http://www.engadget.com/category/handhelds/ rel=tagHandhelds/a/pa href=http://money.cnn.com/news/newsfeeds/articles/djf500/200811111617DOWJONESDJONLINE000514_FORTUNE5.htmimg hspace=4 border=1 align=right vspace=16 alt= src=http://www.blogcdn.com/www.engadgetmobile.com/media/2008/11/g1-teardown-sm.jpg //aTeardown specialist a href=http://www.engadgetmobile.com/tag/iSuppli/iSuppli/a is at it again, digging through the a href=http://www.engadgetmobile.com/tag/g1G1’s/a guts this time around in an effort to wrap its inquisitive brain around the inaugural Android handset’s bill of materials. The result? $144, which naturally doesn’t reflect HTC’s Ramp;D — an additional expense that might have been unusually low for the G1 considering HTC’s overwhelming expertise in manufacturing all things mobile. For the record, this is about $30 less than a href=http://www.engadgetmobile.com/2008/07/16/isuppli-sez-iphone-3g-is-running-apple-53-less-than-original/iSuppli’s July estimate for the 8GB iPhone 3G/a, though the comparison isn’t terribly fair taking into account that the G1 has a mere pittance of internal storage by comparison. There’s no telling what T-Mobile pays HTC for each and each G1 it sells, but emwe/em pay $179 (a href=http://www.engadgetmobile.com/2008/10/28/t-mobile-g1-coming-to-walmart-for-148-88/or less/a) on contract — so it seems HTC is making itself a nice tiny profit right out of the gate and customers aren’t footing much of the bill. At least, not until they’ve gone a few months into their two-year agreements.p style=padding:5px;background:#ddd;border:1px solid #ccc;clear:both;a href=http://www.engadget.com/2008/11/12/isuppli-says-t-mobile-g1-costs-144-to-make-nothing-to-love/iSuppli says T-Mobile G1 costs $144 to make, nothing to love/a originally appeared on a href=http://www.engadget.comEngadget/a on Wed, 12 Nov 2008 13:51:00 EST. Please see our a href=http://www.weblogsinc.com/feed-terms/terms for use of feeds/a./ph6 style=clear: both; padding: 8px 0 0 0; height: 2px; font-size: 1px; border: 0; margin: 0; padding: 0;/h6a href=http://money.cnn.com/news/newsfeeds/articles/djf500/200811111617DOWJONESDJONLINE000514_FORTUNE5.htmRead/anbsp;|nbsp;a href=http://www.engadget.com/2008/11/12/isuppli-says-t-mobile-g1-costs-144-to-make-nothing-to-love/ rel=bookmark title=Permanent link to this entryPermalink/anbsp;|nbsp;a href=http://www.engadget.com/forward/1369957/ title=Send this entry to a friend via emailEmail this/anbsp;|nbsp;a href=http://www.engadget.com/2008/11/12/isuppli-says-t-mobile-g1-costs-144-to-make-nothing-to-love/#comments title=View reader comments on this entryComments/a pa href=http://feedads.googleadservices.com/~a/CoZO-Y6Fn1QyMu_Lby3mQGhsk7M/aimg src=http://feedads.googleadservices.com/~a/CoZO-Y6Fn1QyMu_Lby3mQGhsk7M/i border=0 ismap=true/img/a/pdiv class=feedflare a href=http://feedproxy.google.com/~f/weblogsinc/engadget?a=fbGTOWFvimg src=http://feedproxy.google.com/~f/weblogsinc/engadget?i=fbGTOWFv border=0/img/a a href=http://feedproxy.google.com/~f/weblogsinc/engadget?a=uJvP3cM7img src=http://feedproxy.google.com/~f/weblogsinc/engadget?i=uJvP3cM7 border=0/img/a /divimg src=http://feedproxy.google.com/~r/weblogsinc/engadget/~4/KffdTS3W7q4 height=1 width=1/ a target=_blank rel=nofollow href=’http://feedproxy.google.com/~r/weblogsinc/engadget/~3/KffdTS3W7q4/’Source[engadget]/abr

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