{"id":657051,"date":"2013-05-09T09:35:49","date_gmt":"2013-05-09T13:35:49","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/bgr.com\/?p=499023"},"modified":"2013-05-09T09:35:49","modified_gmt":"2013-05-09T13:35:49","slug":"cheap-isnt-always-cheap-galaxy-s4-costs-more-to-build-than-iphone-5","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/657051","title":{"rendered":"\u2018Cheap\u2019 isn\u2019t always cheap \u2013 Galaxy S4 costs more to build than iPhone 5"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><center><a href=\"http:\/\/bgr.com\/2013\/05\/09\/samsung-galaxy-s4-teardown-bom\/\" class=\"bgr-rss-featured-image bgr-rss-test-class\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/i1.wp.com\/boygeniusreport.files.wordpress.com\/2013\/05\/bgr-samsung-galaxy-s4-review-9.jpg?resize=610%2C436\" class=\"attachment-feed_normal wp-post-image\" alt=\"Samsung Galaxy S4 Teardown\" title=\"Samsung Galaxy S4 Teardown\" width=\"610\" height=\"436\" \/><\/a><\/center>Samsung is constantly knocked for launching smartphones and tablets that feel cheap and flimsy compared to rival devices, but just because <a href=\"http:\/\/bgr.com\/2013\/05\/08\/samsung-galaxy-s4-review-redux-software-services\/\">something feels cheap<\/a> doesn&#8217;t mean it is cheap. A teardown analysis of <a href=\"http:\/\/bgr.com\/tag\/samsung\">Samsung&#8217;s<\/a> <a href=\"http:\/\/bgr.com\/tag\/galaxy-s4\">Galaxy S4<\/a> performed by market research firm IHS iSuppli found that the 32GB version of the new flagship phone has a bill of materials (BOM) of approximately $237 per unit, <a href=\"http:\/\/allthingsd.com\/20130508\/samsung-galaxy-s4-costs-237-to-build-teardown-analysis-shows\/\"><em>AllThingsD<\/em> reported<\/a>. That figure comes in almost 10% above the $217 BOM that IHS iSuppli previously reported for Apple&#8217;s 32GB iPhone 5. Of course, much of the Galaxy S4&#8217;s component cost is funneled back to other Samsung companies, giving the company a nice advantage over rivals. &#8220;Samsung\u2019s strength is this ability to in-source to itself,&#8221; IHS analyst Vincent Leung said. &#8220;They just keep adding to the list of components that they can supply to themselves.&#8221;<img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/feeds.feedburner.com\/~r\/TheBoyGeniusReport\/~4\/2v22WivYb6I\" height=\"1\" width=\"1\"\/><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Samsung is constantly knocked for launching smartphones and tablets that feel cheap and flimsy compared to rival devices, but just because something feels cheap doesn&#8217;t mean it is cheap. A teardown analysis of Samsung&#8217;s Galaxy S4 performed by market research firm IHS iSuppli found that the 32GB version of the new flagship phone has a [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[16,7],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-657051","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-mobile","category-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/657051","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=657051"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/657051\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=657051"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=657051"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=657051"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}