With a plethora of smartphones available on the market, now we can easily get a good device from popular companies like Apple, Samsung, HTC or LG.

However, consumers always want to get the most out of their money. They want to know if the manufacturers are making a lot of profits from their products. Therefore, we investigate the production cost of the top-selling smartphones on the market and this could be an important suggestion for your decision.

The production cost is based on teardown of the devices, analysis of specs and information from suppliers. The most costly parts are often the core electronics, display, memory, and camera.

Let’s check out the list of smartphones with information about production cost (Bill of materials plus manufacturing cost), full retail price at launch and profit margin.

Notice that we don’t take into account other costs like marketing, research and development, distribution, staff, packaging, or software, so the manufacturers wouldn’t earn that much profit from their products.

The prices we listed above are the full prices at launch, most of them could have been adjusted after a few months or even weeks. We don’t use subsidized prices from carriers because you have to pay more during the contract. Therefore, make sure to double check the price before purchasing.