{"id":742481,"date":"2013-03-19T15:20:05","date_gmt":"2013-03-19T19:20:05","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/bgr.com\/?p=386038"},"modified":"2013-03-19T15:20:05","modified_gmt":"2013-03-19T19:20:05","slug":"what-cheap-build-galaxy-s-4-components-estimated-to-cost-more-than-iphone-5","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mereja.com\/index\/742481","title":{"rendered":"What \u2018cheap build?\u2019 Galaxy S 4 components estimated to cost more than iPhone 5"},"content":{"rendered":"<center><a href=\"http:\/\/bgr.com\/2013\/03\/19\/samsung-galaxy-s-4-bom-23-dollars-386038\/\"><img data-recalc-dims=\"1\" width=\"650\" height=\"580\" src=\"http:\/\/boygeniusreport.files.wordpress.com\/2013\/03\/bgr-samsung-galaxy-s-iv-12.jpg?w=650&#038;h=580&#038;crop=1&#038;resize=650%2C580\" class=\"attachment-feed_normal wp-post-image\" alt=\"Samsung Galaxy S 4 BOM\" title=\"Samsung Galaxy S 4\" \/><\/a><\/center>Just because <a href=\"http:\/\/bgr.com\/2013\/03\/15\/galaxy-s-4-preview-plastic-design-379830\/\">something is built with plastic doesn't necessarily make it cheap to build<\/a>. The <a href=\"http:\/\/press.ihs.com\/press-release\/design-supply-chain\/samsung-galaxy-s4-carries-236-bill-materials-ihs-isuppli-virtual-t\">researchers at IHS on Tuesday<\/a> released their bill of materials (BOM) <a href=\"http:\/\/bgr.com\/2013\/03\/19\/galaxy-s-4-iphone-5-comparison-performance-385274\/\">estimate for the Galaxy S 4<\/a> and found that the HSPA+ version has a BOM of $236 while the LTE version has a BOM of $233. When factoring in an $8.50 cost of labor per device, IHS estimates that the HSPA+ Galaxy S 4 costs around $244 to build while the LTE version costs $241 to build. The reason that the LTE version is cheaper, says IHS, is that it uses a less costly processor than the HSPA+ version.\u00a0As <a href=\"http:\/\/www.businessinsider.com\/isuppli-says-galaxy-s4-costs-244-to-manufacture-2013-3\"><em>Business Insider's<\/em> Steve Kovach notes<\/a>, IHS's Galaxy S 4 manufacturing cost estimate is significantly higher than the $207 manufacturing cost estimate the firm had for <a href=\"http:\/\/bgr.com\/tag\/apple\">Apple's<\/a> (<a href=\"http:\/\/finance.yahoo.com\/q?s=aapl\">AAPL<\/a>) 16GB iPhone 5.<img src=\"http:\/\/feeds.feedburner.com\/~r\/TheBoyGeniusReport\/~4\/NeLcqGf-d5w\" height=\"1\" width=\"1\"\/>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Just because something is built with plastic doesn&#8217;t necessarily make it cheap to build. The researchers at IHS on Tuesday released their bill of materials (BOM) estimate for the Galaxy S 4 and found that the HSPA+ version has a BOM of $236 while the LTE version has a BOM of $233. When factoring in [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":4809,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"advanced_seo_description":"","jetpack_seo_html_title":"","jetpack_seo_noindex":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[12070,4821],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-742481","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-mobile","category-news"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p9NivD-379v","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.com\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/742481","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.com\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.com\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.com\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/4809"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.com\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=742481"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.com\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/742481\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.com\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=742481"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.com\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=742481"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.com\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=742481"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}