iSuppli: Nokia Lumia 900 manufacturing costs $ 217

Resource iSuppli released preliminary information on the cost components of a smart phone Nokia Lumia 900. The device turned out to be quite expensive to manufacture - 217 dollars, but its price is the operator AT & T without a contract is 450 dollars, and with a contract - $ 100. Actually components that are used to manufacture the device cost $ 209 Nokia's, and another $ 8 - is the cost of building a smartphone. It should be noted that the named sum does not include delivery of materials to the manufacturer, the collected phones to the point of sale, and marketing costs. As expected, the cost of the promotion staff were very impressive and included major events in New York and London on the day of launch, who could do $ 150 million. Although the question of how much Nokia is actually spent on advertising Nokia Lumia 900 remains open. The cost of the phones was higher than the iPhone, and thus generate the same income, the model could not. However, Nokia managed to compensate for the somewhat more expensive LTE-module, and a large touch screen by saving on the CPU with a clock frequency of 1.4 GHz and other design elements.