IHS Markit has torn apart Samsung's latest flagship device in order to understand how it was made, what's inside and how much money it would have cost to build.
And the headline finding is that with an estimated bill of materials (BOM) production cost of US$307.50 (RM1,352.38), the Galaxy S8 genuinely is a premium phone, especially considering that buying one off the shelf without a contract costs US$720 (RM3,166).
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