The cost of Google Nexus 7 was estimated by independent experts.

Appeared on the market after a long wait, the Nexus 7 tablet from Google with serious technical characteristics and a very attractive price of $ 199 for the younger model, according to many experts, should work on the Amazon model - in other words, the company sells the device almost at cost, but then earns on selling content for it. This, in particular, explains the fact that in countries such as Ukraine, where Google Play is only an app store, the cost of the Nexus 7 promises to be about $ 350, according to information from the Ukrainian division of ASUS.



AllThingsD reviewers, referring to the iSuppli research division, argue that Google will be able to make serious money selling Nexus 7 even at the price of $ 199 and $ 249 for the younger and older tablet models in the US, respectively.



Experts iSuppli, getting at the disposal of the 8-gigabyte model of the Nexus 7 dismantled it and estimated the cost of the components. According to their conclusion, the cost of this tablet model is $ 151.75.

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A similar procedure with disassembly and evaluation was conducted with a 16-gigabyte model, which differs from the younger brother only in the amount of memory. The cost of the tablet in this case was $ 159.25.



Thus, Andrew Rössler (Andrew Rassweiler), the head of this study, concludes that even with the assembly and transportation, the Nexus 7 with a capacity of 8 GB will be at least break-even for Google. But on the older model - where, in fact, you want to add a chip with more memory - Google will work quite well even without accompanying sales of content.



For objectivity's sake, it is worth noting that iSuppli estimated the cost of Google Nexus 7 at $ 30 less than it was previously done in another company - UBM TechInsights . However, in this case, the assessment was carried out, so to speak, in absentia, since the UBM specialists did not yet have the device itself, and the cost was determined by the known technical characteristics.



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