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Ends 10/23 at 8AM PT. eBay with Johnny's Discount Electronics has the Samsung Galaxy Note II N7100 4G Unlocked Smart Phone, 2012 (White) for $589 with free shipping. Here is Engadget's glowing review on the newest Galaxy Note model.
Android 4.1 OS, 1.6GHz quad core processor, 16GB memory
802.11 a/b/g/n, 3100 mAh Li-ion, Bluetooth 3.0, S-Voice
5.5” 720p AMOLED display, 1080pHD recording, 8MP camera
$589
All these Andriod phones are nice to see but something has gone horribly wrong when they cost more than the average desktop system.
The day you can fit your desktop into your hand and carrying it around and cost less than something like this... Let me know.
^ Exactly my point, that with less space and weight from fewer components and materials it should cost less, not more than larger equipment. It wouldn't surprise me at all if it costs a large outfit like Foxconn or Samsung over twice as much to make a whole PC vs a phone.
Wait and see, I predict that in less than a decade the cost of everything else will have gone up but *smart*phones will be less than $100.
Ummm... I'm a bit dumbfounded... It's the complete opposite. It costs more and presents many more challenges to make something small that it still very fast from a processing standpoint, not to mention network capabilities, cooling solutions to dissipate heat, power management/battery life vs. a massive PSU that's 10x the volume or more than any phone out there and the list goes on... In the case of electronics, size matters, but smaller is better. Smaller is also much more expensive to manufacture as well as research and development and generally fitting a lot in a small space is much more difficult.
^ No it doesn't. Smaller die silicon processors cost less and machines make them and the rest of the high density parts of a phone. Order the PCB and the cost is per square inch and layers. Networking capabilities are trivial, that can be integrated SOC for under $5 and desktops have power management and more costly heatsinking.... more costly everything! R&D costs are higher but not that much, a large portion is done by underpaid 2nd world laborers.
I stand by what I wrote, smart phones are a far higher profit than desktop PCs to the major players. We'll see what happens in time... desktop PCs will not drop nearly as much in price as smart phones will. Smaller is better has nothing to do with relevant markups.