Mobile/PDA About Us Advertise here
User User name Password  
  Not registered yet? Register here.
Lost your password? Click here. 		 
  Home   News   Guides   Downloads   Glossary   Hardware   Profiles   Forums   v4  
 Advertise at AfterDawn.com     Link to us!     Private messages     Compose a private message     List of all updated threads     Threads without replies     Search messages
Sunday 12.10.2025 / 14:55
Search AfterDawn Forums:        In English   Suomeksi   På svenska
afterdawn.com > forums > announcements > news comments > new report places kindle fire costs at $201.70
Show topics
 
Forums
Forums
New report places Kindle Fire costs at $201.70
  Jump to:
 
The following comments relate to this news article:

New report places Kindle Fire costs at $201.70

article published on 18 November, 2011

A previous report from IHS had estimated costs at $210. Research firm IHS iSuppli has done a thorough teardown of the Amazon Kindle Fire and found that the component costs are about $201.70. Amazon sells the device for $199. By far, the most expensive part was the 7-inch display, which came in at $87 per unit. The displays are LG E-Ink. The 1GHz processor is a Texas Instruments ... [ read the full article ]

Please read the original article before posting your comments.
Posted Message
dEwMe
Senior Member
_ 		19. November 2011 @ 10:35 _ Link to this message    Send private message to this user   
I hope they hurry up and make jailbreaking the fire easier and more worthwhile. It is pretty sweet straight out of the box but would be nice to be able to uninstall some of the trash Amazon decided we had to have and not be limited to what apps they have bothered to declare compatable and add to their store...

[ + quote]
Just my $0.02,

dEwMe
DVDBack23
Staff Member

4 product reviews
_ 		19. November 2011 @ 23:55 _ Link to this message    Send private message to this user   
Originally posted by jefftheworld:
Originally posted by dEwMe:
 By far, the most expensive part was the 7-inch display, which came in at $87 per unit. The displays are LG E-Ink.
No, they are not e-ink.
Sorry if that was not clear, the displays are made by LG and E-Ink.
[ + quote]
AfterDawn News
AfterDawn Guides
One of the largest collections of software on the Web: AfterDawn Software Section
Advertisement
_ 		__
 
_
Azuran
Member
_ 		20. November 2011 @ 15:30 _ Link to this message    Send private message to this user   
add in overhead and R&D amortized over the life of the device and that gap is probably much bigger.
[ + quote]
afterdawn.com > forums > announcements > news comments > new report places kindle fire costs at $201.70
 

Digital video: AfterDawn.com | AfterDawn Forums
Music: MP3Lizard.com
Gaming: Blasteroids.com | Blasteroids Forums | Compare game prices
Software: Software downloads
Blogs: User profile pages
RSS feeds: AfterDawn.com News | Software updates | AfterDawn Forums
International: AfterDawn in Finnish | AfterDawn in Swedish | AfterDawn in Norwegian | download.fi
Navigate: Search | Site map
About us: About AfterDawn Ltd | Advertise on our sites | Rules, Restrictions, Legal disclaimer & Privacy policy
Contact us: Send feedback | Contact our media sales team
 
  © 1999-2025 by AfterDawn Ltd.

  IDG TechNetwork