iPhone 4S Dissection: Gutsier Guts for the Money
While making weighty hardware improvements in the iPhone 4S, Apple has managed to keep the costs of producing the phone flat. That's what the results of a teardown of the phone released Thursday by IHS iSuppli revealed. Teardowns take a product apart piece by piece to analyze its components. In the iSuppli teardown, the firm estimated that the total cost of the parts that went into a 16 GB iPhone 4S amounted to $188.
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