Nokia N8 Components Cost $187.47, Four Cents Cheaper than iPhone 4

October 12th, 2010 • • 8 comments

Researcher iSuppli Corp. told Bloomberg today that the components in the Nokia N8 cost $187.47. The most expensive element is the display and touchscreen which cost $39.25. Retail price of the Nokia N8 is $549 in the US without contract. Materials and parts were reportedly supplied by companies including Samsung, Toshiba, and Texas Instruments.

Nokia n8 Teardown
Nokia N8 teardown by iFixIt

For comparison, iSuppli told Bloomberg that the 16GB Apple iPhone 4′s components cost $187.51. Without contract, you can buy a new iPhone 4 for $599 at AT&T stores. Here are some of the other component costs for the Nokia N8:

  • Memory components, including 16 GB of mass storage:$37.12
  • Camera element: $31.08
  • Chipset to run the OS: $22

The estimate doesn’t include costs for items such as labor, shipping, advertising, software development or patent licensing.

  • AmigaOne

    The N8 is allot cheaper here in sweden compared with Iphone 4, here you will get an N8 for around 599 and a IPhone 4 for about 1000, so N8 rules in that regard over IPhone.

  • Anonymous

    Is the CPU of N8 is provided by Texas Instruments? i thought it was by Broadcom?

    • Anonymous

      GPU is Broadcom.
      CPU is TI.

  • http://twitter.com/aegisdesign Shaun Murray

    The comparison is a little off since the iPhone 4 is locked to AT&T whereas the N8 is unlocked. You can’t buy an unlocked iPhone4 in the USA.

    In the UK is £599 inc VAT and an N8 is £419 inc VAT at expansys.com. If you could get an unlocked iPhone4 in the US there would be a similar difference I suspect.

    So, if the component cost is anything to go by, Apple is just taking a bigger margin from their customers. Their profits by comparison with Nokia seems to suggest so.

    • http://thenokiablog.com Mark Guim

      Thanks for pointing that out! It looks like an unlocked iPhone 4 here in the US costs $749. That’s a lot more than the Nokia N8 which comes unlocked for $549

      • Viipottaja

        Might want to update your story with that info? :)

  • Ivan4879

    I didn’t read the article but does that include the penta band ?

  • Abrakadabra

    it’s only 4 cent distance on start=)

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