HTC Thunderbolt Teardown Reveals Highest Ever Highest Ever BOM

[willdogs]

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HTC Thunderbolt Teardown Reveals Highest Ever Highest Ever Bill of Materials | News & Opinion | PCMag.com

A teardown of the HTC Thunderbolt reveals one of the highest bill of materials (BOM) ever seen on a cell phone: $262.

Components for the popular 4G LTE smartphone cost $262, the highest seen in a smartphone disassembled by folks at IHS iSuppli Teardown Analysis Service. It is significantly higher than the $171.35 cost of Verizon iPhone elements and comparable to media tablets, IHS said in a post.

The most expensive element of the Thunderbolt was its 4G LTE wireless standard, which made up $39.75 of the tab. Most of this expense come from a first-generation LTE baseband chip, Qualcomm MDM9600.

 

[willdogs]

report: Teardown of HTC ThunderBolt Provides Insights on Rumored LTE iPhone

 

[CaptainObvious]

well i guess this makes the initial $250 sticker shock wear off a bit

 

[Bomfy]

Forgive me for this stupid question.

So it costs basically $40 for the TB to be 4G correct? So if you leave out the 4G stuff it would still have cost more than an iPhone.

I wonder if there is a way to find out the quality of the parts used, so I can throw this in my buddies face who swears the TB costs about less than half what the far "superior" iPhone costs to make.

 

[nyrmetros]

Forgive me but what is the average BOM for a smartypants phone?

 

[SeekerOfTheWay]

Forgive me but what is the average BOM for a smartypants phone?

Best autocorrect error I've seen in a while! LOL!