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The price of Samsung’s Galaxy S6 Edge is cheaper than Apple’s iPhone 6 Plus, despite the higher cost of its components, according to a market research firm.
The bill of materials (BOM) for the Galaxy S6 Edge with a 65 GB NAND memory chip appears to be US$284.85, according to IHS’s Teardown team. The production first cost reaches US$290.45 when the US$5.60 production cost was added. The product used for the analysis was purchased from Verizon at the price of US$799.99.
The BOM of Apple’s 64 GB iPhone 6 Plus is US$236.04, and its production first cost is US$240.05 when a production cost of US$4.01 is added.
Andrew Rassweiler, the director of the IHS, said that the BOM of the Galaxy S6 Edge is the highest among the Galaxy series.
The curved screen of the S6 Edge costs US$85, which is US$24 more expensive than normal S5 models. It is twice as expensive as the iPhone 6 Plus TFT/IPS display, which costs only US$41.