Samsung GALAXY Note 4 has now entered the formal sales stage worldwide. Its Chinese selling price is 5399 yuan, while the price of some popular mobile phones in China is only 2K. I believe many people are also curious about the cost of Samsung GALAXY Note 4. Recently, the foreign media techinsights released a disassembly report and cost analysis on Samsung GALAXY Note 4. The report said that the cost of parts and assembly of Samsung GALAXY Note 4 was $260.5, about 1597 yuan.

According to this report, many parts in Samsung GALAXY Note 4 are produced by Samsung itself, including the screen, Shannon 303 baseband, power management chip RF Transceiver、 Image processor, NFC controller, RAM, NAND Flash, etc. In addition, the model of Samsung GALAXY Note 4 disassembled by techinsights is SM-N910K, and the processor it is equipped with is Exynos 5433, which is also produced by Samsung.

Samsung GALAXY Note 4 also uses the BMP180 air pressure sensor produced by the World Expo, the YAS532B electronic compass produced by Yamaha, the WM5110E sound effect solution produced by Wolfson, the heart rate monitoring sensor produced by Analog Devices, and some parts are provided by Japanese suppliers such as Murata, Texas Instruments, Maxim.

Techinsights said that the final component cost of Samsung GALAXY Note 4 was about $260.5, about $18 higher than that of Apple's iPhone 6 Plus.

It can only be said that the hardware cost is only a small part of all the costs of smart phones, and $260.5 is only the cost of parts of Samsung GALAXY Note 4, which does not include the cost of hardware and software research and development, as well as marketing, packaging, channels, licensing, technical support and other costs.

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