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Fusion Garage Grid 10 tablet will cost £259

September 12th, 2011 No comments

TABLET MAKER Fusion Garage has confirmed UK pricing for its Grid 10 tablet and announced that its smartphone will soon be coming to the UK.

The WiFi only version of the Grid 10 tablet will cost £259, while the WiFi and 3G model will be priced at £359. Fusion Garage CEO Chandra Rathakrishnan told The INQUIRER that the tablet has “the highest screen resolution of any tablet” at 1366×768.

Last month, we reported that Fusion Garage had stepped back into the limelight, following up its widely criticised Joojoo tablet.

The firm’s disastrous Joojoo unit failed to live up to the claims of the firm’s founder, Rathakrishnan.

Now Fusion Garage has a custom version of Google’s Android operating system, called Grid OS. It can run Android apps but they must be accessed through Amazon’s app store rather than the Android Market.

The 10.1in tablet has a dual-core 1.2GHz Tegra processor and 16GB of storage. It uses Microsoft Bing as its internet search engine and has a front facing camera for video chat but no rear facing camera as Rathakrishnan thought it unnecessary.

Meanwhile, the Grid 4 is a 4in smartphone that has a 1GHz Qualcomm Snapdragon chip. No UK pricing has been announced for the phone as yet, but it costs 9 in the US. The device will launch in the UK in the fourth quarter and Fusion Garage is currently in talks with operators and retailers about stocking it.

The Grid 10 tablet will be available at Amazon from 15 September.

The tablet is reasonably priced and its custom operating system gives it some nice features. However Fusion Garage will need get the smartphone and tablet to mobile operators and into electronics retail stores to stand a chance at succeeding. µ

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HTC Droid Incredible parts cost $163.35

July 29th, 2010 No comments

A BILL OF MATERIALS (BOM) worth precisely 3.35 is Isuppli’s estimate of what HTC’s Droid Incredible phone actually costs in components and assembly.

Its Teardown Analysis Service came to this conclusion largely because the Droid uses an Active Matrix Organic Light Emitting Diode (AMOLED) display, a Qualcomm 1GHz Snapdragon baseband processor and 4Gbit of mobile Double Data Rate (DDR) DRAM.

Qualcomm, Samsung and Hynix lead the BOM parade. The most expensive section of the Droid is the baseband applications processor at a cost of .40, accounting for 19.2 per cent of the smart phone’s total BOM. This section is dominated by Qualcomm’s baseband integrated circuit that has the Snapdragon processor.

Coming in at a close second in terms of expense is the touchscreen display at a cost of .20, or 19.1 per cent of the total. The AMOLED display portion of this subsystem is supplied by Samsung Mobile Display Company.

Next in the ranking is the memory section, at a cost of .80 and accounting for 18.2 per cent of the tab. In the handset torn down by Isuppli, this section consists of NAND flash memory and mobile DDR DRAM from Samsung Electronics and more NAND from Hynix Semiconductor. However, Isuppli believes that HTC is likely using additional sources of supply for these commodity memory parts.

Pricing for components found inside of equipment is determined using Isuppli’s component price tracker service. It provides detailed information on costs for more than 350 components commonly found in electronic equipment, allowing Isuppli to develop its BOM estimates.

The teardown assessment accounts only for hardware and manufacturing costs and does not take into consideration other expenses such as software, licensing, and royalties. µ

 

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