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 BOM.

Considering that Apple has upgraded some of the internal components and that the company has already sold more than 1 million units of the new phone already I’d say that Apple is going to profit yet again from its latest creation.

The iPhone 3GS has inside a Broadcom single-chip Bluetooth/FM/WLAN deives and a Dialog chip which replace the previous the Marvell Technology Group WLAN chip and the Cambridge Silicon Radio Bluetooth Integrated Circuit and the NXP Semiconducters respectively. Now that we’ve cleared the air around the 3G feature of the iPhone 3GS we can move right ahead to that digital compass. All that is possible thanks to STMicroelectronics’ accelerometer and AKM Semiconductor’s electronic compass. That new chip is provided by Infineon, and the PMB8878 baseband chip should get the job done. As for the 3G power amplifier module supplier that’s still coming from TriQuint. The storage solution comes from Toshiba’s 16GB Multilevel-Cell NAND flash while Samsung supplied the applications processor supplier clocked at 600MHz which is better than the previous 400MHz ARM RISC processor used in the 3G phone.

Now that you know what’s inside, are you even more tempted to buy a 3GS phone?

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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 iPhone or the Bold. iSuppli states that the total manufacturing cost of a Palm Pre is just around $138. That’s the hardware cost only, without all the research and development costs. From the same point of view the iPhone costs $174 and the Bold $169.

According to iSuppli Sprint will pay $300 for the Palm Pre and Sprint’s customers will pay around $200 for the device with a $100 rebate on a new contract.

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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 a total of 38.5 million. The event was predicted to happen sometime in 2011. I guess all those netbooks certainly helped achieve this performance.

HP is the number one seller with 18.8% of the market followed by Dell with 13.9% and Acer 12.2%. Lenovo and Toshiba have 7.5 each while Apple got just a 3.2%.

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