Higher than ever dare we say is the cost of buying a high-end phone today and there is always a curiosity about the actual cost of building a new model. In Japan, a team of experts reveals the total bill of materials (BOM) for the Google Pixel 9 Pro and Apple’s iPhone 16 Pro. So we have a new estimate of how much the components that make up these two smartphones cost – obviously these completely exclude R&D and marketing costs, it’s important to keep that in mind.
If this report is accurate, then it appears that Google’s Pixel 9 Pro is much cheaper to manufacture (when looking at the cost of parts) than the iPhone 16 Pro. The Pixel’s BOM comes in at $406, while the iPhone’s is reportedly at $568.
The Pixel 9 Pro’s BOM is therefore 11% lower than it was for the Pixel 8 Pro last year, but that’s a poor comparison since the Pixel 8 Pro’s successor is the Pixel 9 Pro XL. The Pixel 9 Pro is just smaller, which means it has a smaller screen and a smaller battery – both probably cheaper than the bigger ones, so that’s where the BOM cost drop could come from.
On the other hand, the BOM of the iPhone 16 Pro is 6% higher than that of its predecessor last year. The iPhone chipset is estimated to cost $135, the screen $110 and the camera parts $91. The Pixel’s SoC was priced at $80, the display at $75, and the camera components cost up to $61.
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Source: myphone.gr
