Comments on: HTC Thunderbolt Is The Most Expensive Phone To Make? http://www.slashgear.com/htc-thunderbolt-is-the-most-expensive-phone-to-make-08164025/ Feeding Your Gadget and Tech Obsessions Mon, 25 Jun 2012 15:46:00 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.5.1 By: Byron Hansen http://www.slashgear.com/htc-thunderbolt-is-the-most-expensive-phone-to-make-08164025/#comment-122320 Byron Hansen Sun, 10 Jul 2011 17:09:00 +0000 http://www.slashgear.com/?p=164025#comment-122320 I paid $32.67 for a XBOX 360 and my mom got a 17 inch Toshiba laptop for $94.83 being delivered to our house tomorrow by FedEX. I will never again pay expensive retail prices at stores. I even sold a 46 inch HDTV to my boss for $650 and it only cost me $52.78 to get. Here is the website we using to get all this stuff, LiveCent.com

]]> By: Anonymous http://www.slashgear.com/htc-thunderbolt-is-the-most-expensive-phone-to-make-08164025/#comment-122190 Anonymous Sat, 09 Jul 2011 23:55:00 +0000 http://www.slashgear.com/?p=164025#comment-122190 I’m sorry, but WTF does the iphone have to do with the Thunderbolt?

iphone can GTFO and DIAFJB, lol.  4G LTE is where it’s at and the iphone is falling well behind (again).  More of my friends are adopting android, and ecstatic about it after finally giving up the walled-garden-iphone-that-lines-steve-jobs-pockets-with-gold. 

]]> By: Holly Kick http://www.slashgear.com/htc-thunderbolt-is-the-most-expensive-phone-to-make-08164025/#comment-122159 Holly Kick Sat, 09 Jul 2011 21:13:00 +0000 http://www.slashgear.com/?p=164025#comment-122159 thata because there are many who drool over smartphones

]]> By: Martin Warner http://www.slashgear.com/htc-thunderbolt-is-the-most-expensive-phone-to-make-08164025/#comment-122152 Martin Warner Sat, 09 Jul 2011 20:37:00 +0000 http://www.slashgear.com/?p=164025#comment-122152 I use it… HTC always made great phones with the one exception of the WM HTC Touch Pro 2. I have downloaded at speeds as high as 20mbps from speedtest.net. While battery life is a trade off, a simple “phone info” app allows you to disable 4G for simple EVDO if you want, and if you’re a smartphone owner and don’t have a charger for the car, office, and home, you’re just a moron.

]]> By: Martin Warner http://www.slashgear.com/htc-thunderbolt-is-the-most-expensive-phone-to-make-08164025/#comment-122151 Martin Warner Sat, 09 Jul 2011 20:33:00 +0000 http://www.slashgear.com/?p=164025#comment-122151 That’s because people are too dumb to follow step by step instructions to root it themselves

]]> By: Jose_a_144 http://www.slashgear.com/htc-thunderbolt-is-the-most-expensive-phone-to-make-08164025/#comment-122149 Jose_a_144 Sat, 09 Jul 2011 19:51:00 +0000 http://www.slashgear.com/?p=164025#comment-122149 These are parts there is still transporting parts assembling it RnD marketing the actual designing of the phone transport to store and probably more

]]> By: Jixxerluvr http://www.slashgear.com/htc-thunderbolt-is-the-most-expensive-phone-to-make-08164025/#comment-122126 Jixxerluvr Sat, 09 Jul 2011 18:55:00 +0000 http://www.slashgear.com/?p=164025#comment-122126 Consider learning about the Verizon network before you bash how much it costs for a plan. Otherwise Im sure Sprint, AT&T, T-Mobile, Virgin, Boost, Walmart, etc would be glad to have you on their inferior networks. 

]]> By: Mike Scalora http://www.slashgear.com/htc-thunderbolt-is-the-most-expensive-phone-to-make-08164025/#comment-122123 Mike Scalora Sat, 09 Jul 2011 18:31:00 +0000 http://www.slashgear.com/?p=164025#comment-122123 $171 BOM does NOT equal “dollars to make”, bill of materials is a fraction of manufacturing costs, not to mention a lot of other things required to actually sell them even when you don’t count R&D

]]> By: Anonymous http://www.slashgear.com/htc-thunderbolt-is-the-most-expensive-phone-to-make-08164025/#comment-122058 Anonymous Sat, 09 Jul 2011 03:35:00 +0000 http://www.slashgear.com/?p=164025#comment-122058 I’m guessing that number doesn’t include the $5 to MS..

]]> By: Anonymous http://www.slashgear.com/htc-thunderbolt-is-the-most-expensive-phone-to-make-08164025/#comment-122055 Anonymous Sat, 09 Jul 2011 03:33:00 +0000 http://www.slashgear.com/?p=164025#comment-122055 171 to make, untold amounts to
develop, support, market, distribute, license, etc.

I know, these things aren’t taught in jr. high but if you want to learn how business works outside of the lemonade stand you should consider an MBA when you graduate..

]]> By: Anonymous http://www.slashgear.com/htc-thunderbolt-is-the-most-expensive-phone-to-make-08164025/#comment-122051 Anonymous Sat, 09 Jul 2011 02:55:00 +0000 http://www.slashgear.com/?p=164025#comment-122051 Too bad those other fields have nothing to do with the trend in technology with every progressive innovation costing less and less to implement.

Nice try though.

]]> By: JesperA86 http://www.slashgear.com/htc-thunderbolt-is-the-most-expensive-phone-to-make-08164025/#comment-122047 JesperA86 Sat, 09 Jul 2011 01:12:00 +0000 http://www.slashgear.com/?p=164025#comment-122047 Yeah because sportscars like Porsche doesnt have HUGE margins, like the 997 Turbo is more expensive to make than an GT2, but the GT2 is 70´000USD more expensive, pretty nice margin huh?

Clothes that doesnt even cost 1USD to make sell for 30-100USD, christmas ornaments that cost a couple of cents to make can retail for hundreds of USD.

Smartphone industri is the only industry with huge margins? HAHAHAAAHAHHahahaha

]]> By: Anonymous http://www.slashgear.com/htc-thunderbolt-is-the-most-expensive-phone-to-make-08164025/#comment-122027 Anonymous Fri, 08 Jul 2011 22:03:00 +0000 http://www.slashgear.com/?p=164025#comment-122027 My ass. The smartphone industry is the only one that continues to maintain these ridiculously high margins.

]]> By: Blah http://www.slashgear.com/htc-thunderbolt-is-the-most-expensive-phone-to-make-08164025/#comment-122025 Blah Fri, 08 Jul 2011 21:27:00 +0000 http://www.slashgear.com/?p=164025#comment-122025 well there is R&D that is unaccounted for in that number… engineers are amazingly expensive to employ in mass..

]]> By: Anonymous http://www.slashgear.com/htc-thunderbolt-is-the-most-expensive-phone-to-make-08164025/#comment-122022 Anonymous Fri, 08 Jul 2011 21:08:00 +0000 http://www.slashgear.com/?p=164025#comment-122022 HAHAHAHAHAHA, HOLY SHIT!

171 dollars to make? And they sell it unlocked for OVER 600 dollars? What a racket.

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