The Samsung Galaxy S9 Plus and Galaxy S9 went on sale last Friday, the Galaxy S9 retails for $719 and the Galaxy S9 Plus for $839.
Now it looks like we have some details on how much the Galaxy S9 Plus costs to build. According to a recent report by Tech Insights, the Galaxy S9 Plus costs Samsung $379 to manufacture.
The company has provided details on a number of smartphones and how much they cost to make, this include the Galaxy Note 8, the iPhone 8 and the iPhone X.
A we can see from the chart the Samsung Galaxy S9 Plus is Samsung’s most expensive smartphone to make so far, the only other handset that costs more to manufacture is Apple’s iPhone X.
Samsung’s new flagship smartphones are now available worldwide and the company is hoping that these two new smartphones are going to be their most popular handsets to date. As we can see from the manufacturing cost chart above, Samsung is making a healthy profit on each handset it sells.
Source Tech Insights