The 16 GB iPhone 5 Costs Apple $207 to Build

The 16 GB iPhone 5 costs Apple slightly more to build than it retails for with a two-year contract, according to a new report from IHS iSuppli.

The market research firm conducted a virtual teardown of the latest iPhone and estimates that the parts used in the 16 GB version cost Apple $199 while the manufacturing cost is another $8, meaning Apple pays about $207 to build the entry-level iPhone 5.

Not only is that more expensive than the phone’s $199 price tag with a two-year contract, it’s also more than the iPhone 4S was estimated to cost Apple to build. A previous report from iSuppli found that the materials used in the 16 GB version of the iPhone 4s cost Apple $188.

The two biggest factors driving up the cost of the latest iPhone are 4G LTE and the new in-cell touchscreen technology that essentially eliminates a layer from the display to make the smartphone that much thinner. The use of 4G LTE is estimated to cost Apple $34 per device, up from $24 per device for the wireless component costs in the iPhone 4s. Likewise, the in-cell technology increased Apple’s display costs to $44 for each iPhone 5 compared to $37 for each iPhone 4s.

Apple was able to offset some of this by bringing the cost of other parts down, including the price of NAND Flash, which is estimated to have been almost halved from the previous year to $10.40.

As iSuppli points out, these estimates only factor in the cost of hardware parts and manufacturing, but omit the cost of research and development, licensing fees and royalties, among others, so the overall price tag for Apple could be higher.

Even if the phone does cost more $207 or more to build, it’s worth noting that the actual starting price of the iPhone 5 is $649 — that cost gets subsidized by the wireless companies with your contract — so Apple still has a huge profit margin here.

Here’s the full breakdown of what it costs to make each version of the iPhone 5 from iSuppli:

Read more: http://mashable.com/2012/09/19/iphone-5-manufacturing-cost/

The 16 GB iPhone 5 Costs Apple $207 to Build

52 Digital Media Resources You May Have Missed

It may not have been a good week for Big Bird, but it was a good one for Detroit Tigers infielder Miguel Cabrera, who won the first Triple Crown since 1967. Over the past few days we’ve witness the beginning of debate season and the end of baseball’s regular season.

With all that going on, it’s understandable if you lost track of what’s happening in the social media and tech world. To get you up to speed, we’ve rounded up all our best feature stories from the past week.

The Lifestyle section was particularly active with resources that could help improve your ever-important quality of life. You can also start crossing names of your holiday shopping list with gift ideas such as geeky wine racks, funky iPhone cases and a high-end coffee maker that brews the perfect cup of java.

For you political junkies, be sure to check out our new special feature on how the digital sphere is shaping modern campaigning and elections. There’s also plenty of information regarding social media and business. It’s all here; dig in.

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  If Your Android Phone Is Stolen, This App Photographs the Thief
  If your Android phone goes missing Kaspersky’s mobile security app can send you pictures of the phone’s current surroundings.

  
  


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  Mashable Special Report: How Digital Is Transforming Politics
  Mashable takes an in-depth look at how technology is changing the democratic process.

  
  


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  5 Better Ways to Network on Twitter and LinkedIn
  Social media is like a professional cocktail hour — a way to connect, share and interact with others beyond the confines of your cubicle.

  
  


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  5 Online Resources for Fact Checking the Presidential Debates
  These sites will help you fact-check President Obama and Mitt Romney’s words in real time during all the presidential debates.

  
  

Social Media

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  Send and Receive New Facebook Gifts Without Hurt Feelings
  Facebook is rolling out a new, real-life gift-giving feature, making a normally private affair public, and potentially causing awkward moments between friends.

  
  


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  YouTube’s 10 Most Shared Ads in September
  This gallery features the 10 most shared advertisements last month from political campaigns to musical samplings.

  
  


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  YouTube’s Slick New TV Mode Lets You Browse From the Keyboard or Your Phone
  Now users can more easily control the YouTube experience from a TV or large monitor.

  
  


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  LinkedIn Introduces Follow Feature for Influencers
  LinkedIn hopes to jazz up its news feed with the addition of 150 super influencers on the network who fans can follow, a la Twitter.

  
  


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  Facebook Launches Redesigned Help Center
  Getting help from Facebook may get a little easier, since the social network debuted its redesigned Help Center.

  
  


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  Want to Highlight Your New Facebook Pictures? Pay to Promote Them
  Facebook has announced that users in the U.S. will now be able to promote their personal posts to friends for a fee.

  
  


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  Tumblr Launches Street Style Vertical With Burberry
  Tumblr has launched a new Spotlight section, its 56th, to highlight blogs dedicated to street style photography.

  
  


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  YouTube Introduces ‘Appeals Court’ for Copyright Fights
  If a content holder still insists you’re using its material without permission after you appeal, the content holder has to go the extra mile and file a takedown notice.

  
  

For more social media news and resources, you can follow Mashable‘s social media channel on Twitter and become a fan on Facebook.

Business & Marketing

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  Is Your Company Leveraging the Right Social Tech?
  Today’s tech is changing how people communicate in real time, which allows more employees to work remotely — but can also enhance productivity when someone’s in the same room.

  
  


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  Pre-Order Fashion Retailer Aims to Take on Moda Operandi
  Keiron McCammon and Shari Rudolph, founders of Bonfaire, thinks there’s room for more than one pre-order fashion retailer on the web.

  
  


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  With Acquisition, HotelTonight Plans More Personalized Recommendations
  The PrimaTable team, which developed last-minute perishable inventory demand forecasting and pricing tools for the restaurant industry, will join HotelTonight’s staff, applying their algorithms to the hotel industry.

  
  


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  The Swizzle Cleans Your Inbox By Combining Promo E-mails Into a Daily Digest
  The Swizzle cleans up commercial emails from your mailbox and combines the emails you want to keep into a daily email digest.

  
  


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  Redesigned LinkedIn Brand Pages Are Now Available to All Companies
  LinkedIn is now rolling out its recently revamped brand pages to the more than 2 million companies on the social network.

  
  


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  16 Tips for Picking the Perfect Startup Name
  Check out these tips (and learn from startups who found success) to help you name your own company.

  
  


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  11 Inspiring Sessions From Leaders in Digital Media
  Mashable releases a dynamic agenda full of amazing speakers for the 2012 Media Summit.

  
  


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  Microsoft and B&N Name Joint Venture: Nook Media
  The joint venture between Microsoft and Barnes & Noble now has a name: Nook Media LLC.

  
  


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  Codeacademy Releases Free Ruby Development Courses
  Codecademy is expanding its catalogue of free, interactive programming tutorials with the launch of five Ruby courses.

  
  


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  Craigslist Rolls Out Maps for Apartment Hunters [VIDEO]
  Just months after filing a lawsuit against PadMapper, Craigslist introduced a mapping feature of its own for the website.

  
  

For more business news and resources, you can follow Mashable‘s business channel on Twitter and become a fan on Facebook.

Tech & Mobile

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  Data Is Data Right? The Truth About LTE vs. 3G
  While LTE has its advantages over 3G, there’s a downside to faster data speeds.

  
  


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  Spy App Can Turn Smartphones Against You
  The smartphone in your hands could get hijacked and used as an accessory to virtual burglary.

  
  


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  Ultrabooks Get Super-Slim With Acer Aspire S7
  Acer has shrunk the Ultrabook even more with its new touchscreen-enabled Aspire S7 designs.

  
  


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  Toyota Unveils Super-Compact Car With Location-Based Ads
  “INSECT,” a single-user SmartCar, has facial recognition-based locks and voice command features, among others.

  
  


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  Gmail Now Lets You Search Within Email Attachments
  Google just made life easier for you with a newly added keyword search feature for Gmail attachments.

  
  


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  Charging Your Phone Becomes a Game With This Toyota App [VIDEO]
  Toyota developed “Plug-in Championship,” an app that turns the activity of charging your phone into a fun game.

  
  


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  5 iPhone Cases to Keep Your Earbuds Tangle-Free
  No matter how neatly you tidy them, iPhone headphones always seem to end up in a knotted mass. If this drives you crazy, we have a few solutions to help.

  
  


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  Specs Compared: Kindle Paperwhite vs. Nook Simple Touch With GlowLight
  We compare the capabilities of two illuminated e-readers: the Kindle Paperwhite and the Nook Simple Touch with GlowLight.

  
  


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  Logitech Harmony Touch Is the Ultimate Remote Control [REVIEW]
  The Logitech Harmony Touch is the company’s newest universal remote control, and it might just be the most hassle-free remote yet.

  
  


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  Broadcom Teaches Kids to Program in an Hour Using Raspberry Pi
  This week Broadcom taught kids how to program using the Raspberry Pi.

  
  


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  Worldcam Helps You Find Instagram Photos in Specific Locations
  Ever wanted to find Instagram photos taken in a certain location? With Worldcam, this becomes really easy.

  
  


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  Acer Iconia W700 Tablet: Windows 8 Takes a Stand
  Acer’s W700 Windows tablet offers an optional cradle for when you want a more traditional desktop setup.

  
  


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  Google’s Street View Now Available on Mobile Browsers
  Google’s Street View is now available on mobile browsers, meaning you can enjoy all of Google’s street-level photo imagery on your smartphone.

  
  


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  9 Captivating Data Visualization Projects
  From presidential races to gay right to sports droughts to space, we’ve highlighted some of our favorite data visualizations.

  
  

For more tech news and resources, you can follow Mashable‘s tech channel on Twitter and become a fan on Facebook.

Lifestyle

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  Netflix ‘for Kids’ Now Available on the iPad
  Netflix has moved its ‘Just for Kids’ service to mobile territory, launching the app for the iPad 2 and the new iPad.

  
  


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  Digital Passport For Children Encourages Responsible Online Behavior
  Just as children need to learn good behavior, they also need to learn how to safely and responsibly use the technological resources available to them.

  
  


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  6 Geeky Wine Racks
  We’ve scoured the web to find the most fantastically geeky wine racks for the oenophile (aka the wine lover or grape nut) in your life.

  
  


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  Pay For One Course, Get a Bunch with BenchPrep’s Low Cost Subscription Model
  Online learning site BenchPrep recently announced a $30 per month subscription-based service to access a wide variety of courses.

  
  


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  How Smart Devices and Social Media Impact Your Shopping Habits [INFOGRAPHIC]
  This infographic shows how smart devices and social media impact your shopping habits.

  
  


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  Next-Gen Nest Thermostat Gets Even Cooler and Smarter
  Nest 2.0, just out, is even slimmer, smarter and more compatible than its predecessor.

  
  


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  Wello: Affordable, Personal Training Using Video Chat [REVIEW]
  If you have a hard time stepping away from your computer screen, but want to workout, a new website called Wello will make that possible.

  
  


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  Former Apple, Nasa Engineers Design $11,000 Coffee Machine
  Engineers from Apple and NASA have designed an $11,000 coffeemaker that brews coffee at just the right temperature.

  
  


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  ‘Internet-Use Disorder’ Is Real, But Who Has It?
  Internet-Use Disorder has been accepted for inclusion in the official psychiatrist’s diagnostic manual, the DSM-IV, as of next year.

  
  


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  4 Ways to Write Faster
  Whether working on a deadline or managing simultaneous beats, journalists need to be able to write quickly. But maintaining quality can be a challenge when you’re racing against the clock.

  
  


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  16 High-Tech ’90s Gadgets That Are Pretty Lame When You Think About It
  Here’s a tribute to our 16 favorite tech toys from the ’90s, which if you asked us back then, were just about the most advanced gadgets on the planet.

  
  


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  Lockitron Lets You Unlock the Door With Your iPhone [VIDEO]
  Apigy just made its Lockitron keyless entry technology smarter, letting you unlock your door from anywhere in the world, or having it automatically unlock when you walk up to it.

  
  


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  Virtual Grocery Shopping Eases Daily Commute
  Virtual shopping stores are making travelers’ commutes more efficient and less of a hassle.

  
  


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  7 Funky but Chic Cases for Your iPhone 4
  We’ve rounded up seven unique cases that will have those around you asking “where’d you get that case?”

  
  


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  iPad App Turns Your Pinterest Pins Into Interactive Catalog [VIDEO]
  Bazaart is a fashion iPad app that lets users create interactive boards where items are available for purchase with Pinterest pins.

  
  

For more digital lifestyle news and resources, you can follow Mashable‘s lifestyle channel on Twitter and become a fan on Facebook.

Read more: http://mashable.com/2012/10/06/digital-media-resources-57/

52 Digital Media Resources You May Have Missed

Samsung ATIV Book 9 2014 Edition: A Sleek Laptop Gets Bigger and Better

LAS VEGAS — Samsung’s Book 9 is one of the better laptop designs you can buy, and it’s (literally) getting a big upgrade for 2014. The ATIV Book 9 2014 Edition, introduced at CES, is a 15.6-inch model that sports the same curved wedge design that made the original Series 9 a pleasure to use.

Like last year’s Book 9 Plus, the Book 9 2014 Edition has a full HD display and includes the SideSync software package that makes the Ultrabook your Galaxy phone’s best friend: Notifications are shared, for example, and screen mirroring is effortless.

Although the screen is on the big side (most laptops this size have a 15.4-inch display), Samsung still emphasizes portability with its new ATIV model: It’s just 0.63 inch at the thickest point, and 3.92 pounds. By comparison, the 15.4-inch MacBook Pro with Retina Display is 4.46 pounds.

Samsung says it’s made some improvements to the display, including a better coating for the screen that cuts down on reflectivity but doesn’t compromise its touchscreen response. The viewing angle is 178 degrees, and the brightness gets a bump to 300 nits from 250 in last year’s model. With the upgrade to Intel’s Haswell chips, battery life jumps up, too: Samsung rates the laptop at 14 hours.

Audiophiles will have lots to celebrate about the ATIV Samsung Book 9 2014 Edition since it contains a Wolfson digital-to-analog converter for lossless audio. That means you’ll get studio-quality sound from the device as long as the source is lossless, too. As it happens, Samsung is also introducing lossless audio from its Music Hub (both download and streaming) — the first online music service to do so.

Besides the Book 9, Samsung is debuting a new all-in-one PC at CES. The ATIV One 7 has a slim design with curved edges that’s a conscious callback to the company’s Galaxy Tab tablets, and it has many of the new upgrades of the Book 9 2014 Edition including full HD resolution, a 178-degree viewing angle and an anti-reflective screen.

On the audio side, the ATIV One 7 also supports lossless audio, but with a twist: It can also act as a Bluetooth speaker while in sleep mode, and it has the hardware — a pair of 7-watt speakers, with tweeters — to do it. The machine also supports aptX to help minimize the audio artifacts that can happen over Bluetooth connections.

In sleep mode, the ATIV One 7 can also still act as a remote server for your content for when you need to access it remotely.

Both the ATIV Book 9 2014 Edition and the One 7 will be available in the first half of the year. No pricing has been announced.

Samsung CES 2014 Press Conference

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   Michael Bay was cued up to deliver an endorsement of the content on TVs such as Samsung’s new 105-inch curved screen. Bay’s teleprompter wasn’t working and the director, clearly nervous already, declared that he would “wing it” — but gave up and walked offstage a few seconds later.

   
   

   
   

   
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   With its 5.6 cu. ft. capacity washer and 9.5 cu. ft. capacity dryer, the Samsung WF9000 front-load laundry pair offers more capacity. Even when washing giant loads, like two king-size comforters, consumers just need one cycle to get it all done.

   
   

   
   

   
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Read more: http://mashable.com/2014/01/06/samsung-book-9-2104-edition/

Samsung ATIV Book 9 2014 Edition: A Sleek Laptop Gets Bigger and Better

10 Marvelous Map-Themed iPhone Cases

10 Marvellous Map-Themed iPhone Cases

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   Reminiscent of old globes and school maps, this design’s bright blue leaves us nostalgic.

   
   

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   Each continent is laser-cut and hand-inlaid with a different wood type, which makes for a very special case.

   
   

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   Londoners will always know their stop with this official Tube map.

   
   

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Read more: http://mashable.com/2012/10/11/map-iphone-cases/

10 Marvelous Map-Themed iPhone Cases