The cost of Black Berry

The smartphone wars continue to rage between Apple and Research In Motion, and when it comes right down to the nitty gritty you need to look inside these mobile handsets to get to grips with just who may come out on top.

So market research company iSuppli decided to do an analysis of the BlackBerry Bold’s guts, and the analysts teardown of the Blackberry Bold revealed the parts and materials use to construct the BlackBerry Bold cost $158.16 and when you add on an extra $11.25 for assembly and testing you come out with an overall price of $169.41.

Britain, Canada, France, India and others already have the BlackBerry bold and it is expected in the States soon with AT&T expecting to retail the Bold at $300 on 2 year agreement, while Rogers in Canada sell the Bold for the equivalent of $254.

Black Berry

News is hitting the net waves; the BlackBerry Bold is to hit AT&T come October the 27th. Seems to be official as most of that news is coming from AT&T themselves apparently, so BlackBerry Bold wannabies, there you have it, get all worked up for the 27th.

Philips E100 brings simplicity

Almost on the heels of the Philips Xenium X500, Philips push out another low end mobile handset, this time it is the Philips E100, a budget minded mobile handset that won’t command too heavier a price tag.

The Philips E100 brings simplicity back into the mobile world with a simple 1.8 inch display, plays on GSM and GPRS, a built in FM radio, weighs 75 grams, and offers just 2MB, yes that is MB and not GB, of internal memory, and the obligatory microSD slot.

The Philips E100 isn’t a great deal to shout about, but if you are looking for a simple standard handset, the Philips E100 should hols a price tag of somewhere around $60.

One Click Technology Hand Set Released

Next week will see Sprint Nextel release Four mobile phones that will run their One Click technology. Sprint’s One Click tech allows the user to have their favourite apps within the handsets standby screen.

Sprint’s senior vice president of product and technology development, Kevin Packingham, has stated during a conference call for industry analysts, that Sprint will be releasing said One Click phones next week. Packingham paid particular note to the One Click’s Google tile which allows access to YouTube, Gmail and Google Maps.

Sprint first unveiled their One Click tech back in September at the CTIA Wireless and Entertainment Conference in San Francisco.