?5G Phones $80 for additional parts (Cheap)
A report in Digitimes suggests premium 5G phones will cost about US$100 more than comparable
The production cost for 5G phones as compared to their 4G predecessors should increase by less than US$80 per unit, including an increase by almost US$50 for 5G modem chips and application processors, and the remaining US$30 for new antennas, PCBs and other materials, the sources indicated.
Digitimes stories like this have usually been accurate in the past. This is much less than the US$200 additional estimated by OPPO CEO Pete Lau.
Dan Adams of Deloitte estimates about a million 5G phones will ship in 2019.