Via Business Week - Click for the whole article

"WHAT’S INSIDE.  According to market research firm iSuppli, which has done a tear-down analysis of the Q, it costs Motorola about $158 to build the phone."

This was a great little article about what it really costs to build one of these phones and should help give a little insight into what the profit (or lack of) margins are for some of the phone vendors. I think the biggest thing that bugged me was the cost of the LCD screen versus the costs I have seen to have one replaced…

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