Last updated: Thursday, August 19, 2010
The parts that go into RIM’s BlackBerry Torch smartphone cost fewer bucks than iPhone 4’s internals, a side-by-side teardown analysis shows. More precisely, the Torch’s bill of materials (BoM) comes down to $171.05 versus $187.51 for the 16GB iPhone 4. Both figures exclude other expenses such as research and development, manufacturing, marketing, packaging, labor, patent