The latest member of Samsung?s wildly popular line of Galaxy smartphones ups the ante on features ? and on cost ? with the S5?s discrete-intensive design yielding a high bill of materials (BOM).
The combined hardware and manufacturing cost of Microsoft's new Xbox One amounts to $471, suggesting that Microsoft is subsidizing the cost of the video game console at the time of launch.
LG?s latest flagship phone has been stirring up news in the mobile industry ever since its announcement late this year. Through the LG G2, the South Korean electronics giant is making a new approach in smartphone design.
With the new PlayStation 4, Sony has produced a design whose component and manufacturing costs are starting out lower than its price tag -- paving the way for the company to quickly attain profitability on hardware sales.
With the iPad Air, Apple not only has trimmed the weight and thickness of its flagship tablet line, it has also cut the component cost, as the new model carries a lower bill of materials (BOM) than the third-generation iPad introduced last year.
If you're in the hunt for a budget yet reliable tablet and adhere to the saying "you get what you pay for", then this tablet is for you. The display and the exclusion of GPS can be a downer to some, but bear in mind that HP designated this as an entry-level tablet and can't be compared with high-end tablets like the Nexus 7 or Samsung Galaxy Tab 3.
Far from the major departure that many had expected, the iPhone 5c turned out to follow Apple's familiar formula, combining premium pricing with a hardware design almost completely identical to the original iPhone 5.
Recently, Samsung added a new line of ginormous phablets -- the Galaxy Mega. But, did the Korean tech firm push the limit too far with this new series?
Conventional wisdom says it?s cheaper to produce things in Asia than in North America. However, with just one product ? the Moto X ? Motorola may have overturned this truism.
