Category: PC

Historical coverage of the PC market and new products by Charles W. Moore. 2004-2017.

Samsung Galaxy S7 IHS Teardown Reveals Ho-Hum Refresh – Costs More, Depreciates Faster, Than iPhone 6s

A preliminary estimate by IHS Inc. and its Mobile Handsets Intelligence Service shows the Samsung Galaxy S7 smartphone costs about $255 to build. The U.S. version of the Galaxy S7 with 32 gigabytes (GB) of NAND memory carries a bill of materials (BOM) of $249.55, which rises to $255.05 when the manufacturing cost is added, according to results from the IHS teardown of a phone […]