Amazon has recently made a very big move into the tablet market with their Kindle Fire. This heavily hyped device features a 7-inch display with 1024 x 600 resolution, 1GHz dual-core processor, 512MB of RAM and 8GB of internal storage alongside a modified version of Google’s Android. But when compared to other high end tablets [...]

Every time a new tech product is revealed, there are always posts on tech blogs with dissections of them. The purpose is to find out just how much it costs to make these products, and the answer is never good for consumers. For example, the sum of the iPhone 3GS is about $180, …

In case you were wondering about the bill of materials for the iPhone 3GS then we have the answer for that too. iSuppli has estimated that the new iPhone costs only $178.96 which is only about $4 more than what the iPhone 3G costs to make. And that’s only about $8 more than the Pre’s [...]

What will the Pre cost is something lots of people ask these days. While we don’t have the exact answer to that question, we can easily assume it’s going to cost less than the iPhone or even the BlackBerry Bold. From what we hear the manufacturing costs for the Pre are lower than for the [...]

The inevitable has happened. Driven by our mobility needs we have managed to purchase more laptops than desktops. The research firm iSuppli has reported that laptop sales in Q3 2008 rose 40% compared to last year for a total of 38.6 million units. Desktop on the other hand dropped 1.3% compared to last year for [...]