The official price announced in September iPhone 6s is, as you know, $649 for the version with 16 GB of flash memory. The Bank’s specialists Teardown undertook to find out what is the production cost of this model, for they are armed with a price list for the components of the new smartphone. The resulting figure they have $245 in two and a half times less than the amount that a California company is asking for the iPhone 6s, but that does not mean that with each device, Cupertino earn $400, because in the calculation were not included in the costs of production and distribution.
Hardware includes the iPhone 6s A9 processor with M9 movements coprocessor, 4.7-inch display with a diagonal of 4.7 inch (1334 × 750 pixels), a flash module with a capacity from 16 to 128 GB, 12-megapixel main, iSight camera, front-facing 5-Megapixel FaceTime HD camera, adapter Wi-Fi 802.11 a/b/g/n/ac MIMO, Bluetooth 4.2 and NFC.
Estimated Teardown.com, the most expensive components of the iPhone 6s are the main processor and baseband chip, which accounts for $58,5. The touch panel display costs in the production of machines in $42,5. Approximately $19,0 out on camera, $23,5 — on memory chips.
Mechanical parts and body take $28,0. Test, Assembly and related materials require $18. Another $15,5 account for other expenses. Overall, the cost of the iPhone 6s estimated at $245.
Thus, the iPhone 6s is the most expensive in the production of Apple smartphone. For comparison, the cost of its predecessor iPhone 6 is less than $230, and the total price of the components of the iPhone 5s and does not exceed $200.
