iPhone 3GS Costs $178.96 To Build Says iSuppli

Research company iSuppli religiously tore down the iPhone 3GS as it did for previous high profile smartphone and gave a rather detailed estimate of the cost of the iPhone. Based on the physical analysis of the 16GB model, the firm says that it costs around $178.96 to build the new iPhone, compared to the $174.33 the older version cost - that only $4 extra. The iPhone 3GS shares many of the components of the iPhone 3G which means that Apple could have driven down the...