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Calculating Total Cost of Ownership on Vodaphone

2008-01-11 19:44:52 by Joel Johnson in Boing Boing Gadgets
 
Mad Charles Stross took a stab at buying a cell phone in the UK, armed with a spreadsheet and a hankering to sodomize his calm, and discovered the total cost of ownership doesn't vary wildly when you start all of Vodaphone's plans out in neat boxes: The first obvious conclusion I reached is that if you look at the total cost of ownership (TCO)...
 
Tags: cost, total cost, actual cost, sample phone, phone, month, month contract, cell phone, monthly tariff cost
 
 
 
 
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True cost of SMS messages, a bigger rip off than printer ink?

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2008-01-30 09:21:12 by HASH0x8b09c8c in Newlaunches.com
There was a huge furore over the cost of printer ink which ran into $700 per liter and was more expensive than blood and top notch booze. Eventually you pay more for two ink cartridges than a new printer. A bigger rip off than printer ink is text messaging something which all of us do everyday. Text messaging started 15 years ago in Finland and...
 
Tags: sms, true cost, cost, march sms messages, sms lingo people, printer, printer ink, total message length, message
 
 
 
 
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RIM Blackberry Bold has BOM and manufacturing cost of US$169, iSuppli teardown reveals

2008-10-28 23:19:00 by Maximus in Just Another Mobile Phone Blog
 
The new Research In Motion (RIM) BlackBerry Bold 9000 smartphone represents RIM's first attempt to address consumers directly with a device that is as attractive to average consumers as to its core audience of corporate users. An iSuppli teardown analysis of the Bold shows that RIM has succeeded in offering a product with a full set of features...
 
Tags: blackberry, bold, blackberry bold, interface, blackberry interface, cost, blackberry line, blackberry predecessors, bold reveals
 
 
 
 
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SanDisk Launches Solid-State Drives for Ultra Low-Cost PCs

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2008-06-03 07:45:51 by HASH0x8b61058 in Fareastgizmos.com
SanDisk today introduced a line of flash memory-based solid-state drives designed for an emerging new category of portable consumer electronics called Ultra Low-Cost PCs or net books. The SanDisk pSSD (Parallel ATA solid state drive) eliminates the need for a hard disk drive and can store both the operating system and application data for these...
 
Tags: sandisk ssd modules, ssd, low-cost, sandisk, ssd modules, low-cost ssd category, ultra low-cost pcs, sandisk pssd solid, cost
 
 
 
 
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SanDisks New pSSD is Aimed at Low-Cost Notebooks [Ssd]

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2008-06-03 04:49:00 by Kit Eaton in Gizmodo
SanDisk's new pSSD is a pATA drive aimed at the low-cost notebook PC sector that range of ULPCs, MIDs and the like. Using Multi-Level Cell and Single-Level flash chip designs, the pSSD will have a read speed of about 39MB/sec and a streaming write speed of about 17MB/sec. Though there's no pricing info available, they'll be released at the...
 
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New iPhone Carries $173 BOM and Manufacturing Cost, According to a Preliminary Estimate From iSuppli

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2008-06-25 21:16:00 by Maximus in Just Another Mobile Phone Blog
Apple Inc.s second-generation iPhone is expected to carry an initial hardware Bill Of Materials (BOM) and manufacturing cost of $173, according to a preliminary virtual teardown conducted by iSuppli Corp On Jun. 9, Apple CEO Steve Jobs announced the release of the much-anticipated new iPhone . The new version will be available starting Jul. 11...
 
Tags: iphone, release, iphone release, iphone products, iphone content, teardown, teardown analysis, iphone design, low-end 8gbyte version
 
 
 
 
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NXP Single Chip Solution Delivers Enhanced Multimedia & Connectivity to Ultra Low-Cost Handsets

2008-02-09 00:00:00 by Maximus in Just Another Mobile Phone Blog
 
Company drives ULC+ concept with tri-band and Bluetooth support in a fully integrated, GSM/GPRS solution NXP Semiconductors, the independent semiconductor company founded by Philips, today announced it is expanding its range of fully-integrated GSM/GPRS single-chip solutions for the Ultra Low-Cost (ULC) handset market with the Nexperia single...
 
Tags: ultra low-cost, connectivity, cost, nxp, ultra low-cost market, bluetooth connectivity support, ultra-low cost, nxp semiconductors, semiconductor company
 
 
 
 
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Low-cost PCs and WiMAX to mark turning points for Taiwan in the PC market, says Acer chairman

2008-04-18 11:33:00 by Maximus in Just Another Mobile Phone Blog
 
The advent of low-cost PCs and WiMAX are both opportunities for Taiwan to lead the worldwide PC market, according to JT Wang, chairman of Acer The main reason PC market growth over the past 10 years saw no significant boost was due to the fact key component suppliers have not supported low cost products, while most makers have given up their...
 
Tags: taiwan, market, low-cost pcs, low-cost, wimax, push taiwan, expects taiwan, market growth, acer
 
 
 
 
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SanDisk Launches Solid-State Drives Aimed at Hot New Category of Ultra Low-Cost PCs

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2008-06-03 19:13:00 by Maximus in Just Another Mobile Phone Blog
SanDisk pSSD Flash Memory Modules Are Positioned As Storage of Choice For Emerging Must-Have Market of Ultra-Mobile PCs or Netbooks TAIPEI, TAIWAN AND MILPITAS, CALIFORNIA, June 3, 2008 SanDisk Corporation (NASDAQ: SNDK) today introduced a line of flash memory-based solid-state drives (SSDs) that are designed for an emerging new category of...
 
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