Nokia N8 raw components do not cost more than $200

By Edwin Kee on 10/13/2010, filed in Home > CellPhones

Have you ever wondered just how much of your money’s worth do you get with the new Nokia N8? Well, apparently, someone has gone ahead and performed a teardown, where it was discovered that the total cost for the Nokia N8 including a Samsung display is equal to $187.47. Bear in mind that this is a rough bill of materials, so the actual figure shouldn’t be too far off that. Just before you go around screaming blue murder that the handset itself is sold for triple the price at the very least, bear in mind that you have yet to factor in other details such as marketing, research and development as well as logistics.

Nokia: Nokia is a Finnish communications company that was the largest phone vendor (per unit) between 1988 to 2012. The company's history go back to 1871 but the Nokia that we know today (the Nokia corporation) was founded in 1967 by the merger of three Finnish companies. It is then that Nokia worked on networking equipment and was ultimately involved in the launch of the first cellular network in 1981 (Mobira Oy). Nokia because a key developer of GSM, the standard that we all know today. Although Nokia still produces a range of phones that includes entry-level handsets and Symbian smartphones, the company is counting on the Windows Phone OS to regain the share that it once had. The current flagship Windows Phone device from Nokia is the Lumia 920.

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