How Much Your Smartphone Cost to Build: An Interactive Breakdown [Phones]

You know the way much you paid on your phone. But how much did the materials inside it cost the company that built it? And-more importantly-who’s prioritizing what?

Detailed Component Breakdown

We’ve seen a lot of these numbers before , but where this infographic from Tableau makes it interesting is breaking down the component costs. They all cost roughly an identical to manufacture, but how people spent that cash shows: Apple ponied up more for the iPhone 4 housing than anyone else bothered to, while RIM’s processor budget was predictably meager for the Torch. Nokia’s N8 gambled big on the N8′s 12MP camera, but underspent most other places. Etc.

And yes, there are lots more dollars not accounted here that go into research and design and packaging and such. That profit margin’s just on the actual physical parts; they don’t literally make that much money anytime you buy a phone. But it surely’s still fun to quantify the hardware, and to look what number ways a phone company can burn through $190 of parts. [ Tableau ]

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