HTC Droid Incredible teardown reveals around $163 worth of parts
The components that make up HTC’s Droid Incredible Android smartphone cost about $163.35, according to .
Most touchscreen smartphones today can usually be broken down into $150-$190 worth of components, so the teardown number isn’t a huge surprise. The Droid Incredible retails for $199 with a two-year contract on Verizon.
The phone shares many components with Google’s Nexus One (also built by HTC), so it’s no surprise that it’s similar to the Nexus One’s $174.15 material cost. Both phones share the same Samsung 3.7-inch AMOLED (Active Matrix Organic Light Emitting Display) screen, 1 gigahertz Qualcomm Snapdragon processor, and 512MB of RAM.
All three of those components also ended up being among the most expensive in the Incredible: The processor cost $31.40, the display $31.20, and the RAM (together with the phone’s 8GB of flash storage) cost $29.80.
The biggest difference between the two phones is the Incredible’s support for the CDMA cellular standard. The Nexus One was originally released for T-Mobile’s GSM network, while the Incredible runs on Verizon’s CDMA network.
Compared to the iPhone 4, which , HTC ended up spending far more on the Incredible’s processor. The iPhone 4’s A4 chip — which was designed by Apple engineers and produced by Samsung — only cost the company around $10.75. Of course, that doesn’t take into account the extensive research and development costs to design the chip — which is also used in Apple’s iPad.
Check out iSuppli’s full Droid Incredible component breakdown below:
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