For comparison's sake, the iPhone 4S's 16GB model costs an estimated $188 to build and retails for $200. The Lumia's component prices are about the same, but strangely, it shoots ahead with an expensive screen compared to the iPhone. The Lumia's screen is larger physically, but has a much lower pixel density than the iPhone's retina display.
Nokia—and its partner in crime Microsoft—desperately wants to get a foothold with the Lumia line of Windows Phones. That's why the Lumia 710 was just $50 on T-Mobile, and why the regular price for the 900 is just $100. Nokia's willing to subsidize hardware to gain market share. If this works, it'll be absolutely worth it. If not, well, that's a mighty big bill Nokia just stuck itself with. More here.
5 comments:
That is obvious that Nokia has to subsidize the interest - to get success.
That's very decent of Nokia to sell at less of a margin than Apple do, the phone sounds pretty good as well.
I don't believe anything apple claims on how much it costs to make when they had all those dirty labor factories in the 3rd world.
Awesome!
Thats one nice looking phone, and quite cheap
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