New Samsung Galaxy S7 – powerful Exploded View

Really, there is no revolution inside and around the new Samsung Galaxy S7 smartphone. One can however observe that, Samsung is spending more and more on its bill of materials (BOM) compared to Apple.

New Samsung Galaxy S7 – powerful Exploded View.

Among the most exciting, we have on the sensor front, the usual accelerometer, gyroscope, compass, fingerprint sensor, pressure (barometer) sensor and optical pulse sensor.

According to IHS Inc., and its MobileHandsets Intelligence Service, the Samsung Galaxy S7 smartphone costs about $255 to build. The U.S. version of the Galaxy S7 with 32 gigabytes (GB) of NAND memory carries a bill of materials (BOM) of $249.55, which rises to $255.05 when the manufacturing cost is added, according to results from the IHS teardown of a phone purchased from Verizon. The retail price of the Galaxy S7 at Verizon is $672. As another point of reference, Apple’s 16GB iPhone 6s has a BOM of $187.91 and retails for $649. 

The S7’s Samsung-manufactured 5.1-inch Quad HD Super AMOLED touchscreen display is the same size and resolution (2560x1440 pixels, 577 PPI) as the S6 and costs $55. 

DRAM, or dynamic random access memory, on the S7 is from SK Hynix and is of the LPDDR4 4GB package-on-package (PoP) flavor; IHS estimates its price tag at $25. The Samsung NAND flash memory found on the S7 is 32GB and comes in at a cost of $7.25.

The S7 features a beefier 3000mAh Li-Polymer battery than the 2600mAh found in the S6, which can provide improved battery life. The battery is a fast-charge type and supports wireless charging. The teardown also revealed a copper heat exchanger for thermal management.