Nexus One hardware costs $174.15, US multitouch still priceless
By Vlad Savov 
posted January 9th 2010 11:45AM
posted January 9th 2010 11:45AM
If, while perusing the Nexus One teardown, you were doing a mental tally of just how much each internal part may cost, here's your chance to compare your numbers to some professionally obtained figures. iSuppli reports a preliminary estimate of $174.15 for the cost of materials needed to build each handset. The research firm also congratulates Google on keeping a bill of materials comparable to most recent smartphones while having "the most advanced features of any smart phone ever dissected by iSuppli's Teardown Analysis Service." Costliest of all things was the 1GHz Snapdragon ($30.50), followed by the AMOLED display ($23.50) and memory ($20.40) from Samsung. The Bluetooth and 802.11n WiFi transceiver cost $8.20, and perhaps the most egregious spend was $12.50 on a 5 megapixel camera that many of us might never use. Hilariously enough, Google has spent $17.50 on what is clearly identified as a "capacitive multitouch touchscreen assembly" from Synaptics, though enabling it clearly remains a bridge too far.
what was the iphone's breakdown price again?
For Christ's sake. Enough with the "lacks multi-touch" bullshit already! The N1, hell, even the G1 -HAVE MULTI-TOUCH-. It's up to the developer to implement it. I personally have 2 web browsers and 2 photo apps on my N1 with "pinch-zoom". Who the hell cares if the default apps don't have it? Download Dolphin or Xscope, they are better than the built-in browser and support multi-touch perfectly, or download Picsay if you want "pinch-zoom" for images. For Maps, some XDA guys were able to mod it to do "pinch-zoom" as well. People need to stop hyperventilating over multi-touch and encourage more devs to implement it themselves.