Sum of its parts: The Palm Pre
Posted in This Just In... on April 29th, 2009 by gkrakow
The guys at iSuppli have done it again. This time they’ve taken a giant chance at guessing what it might cost Palm to actually construct a Pre smartphone: $138. They don’t have many details of exactly what parts are inside though.
If $138 sounds high consider what iSuppli estimates it costs Apple to make an iPhone ($174) or HTC/T-Mobile to make the G-1 ($144). And as you know the iPhone starts at $199 and the G-1 currently sells for ($180). That could mean that Spreint will sell the Pre in the same price range. I hope so.
It’s especially interesting because it’s believed that Palm has sourced a lot of the innards (like the antenne and camera works from the same place that supplies Apple, HTC and others.
Earlier guessers believed that Palm would be charging Sprint $300 for each phone and that Sprint would have to make up the difference by requiring expensive service plans. Sprint has already let it “slip” that their all-you-can-eat monthly phone/data plan will cost $99 ($89 for a second phone on the same bill).