Quote Originally Posted by curaga View Post
LCD screens are expensive, one would think getting six more inches would cost more than a GSM modem. I was comparing the cheapest of each here, not the cheapest tablet to some 500€ phone.
Cut corners with the pixel density, and capacitive touch grid density. Plus you can use the same (or similar) processor as the phones. An iPhone 4 costs so much because it is an engineering miracle that so many components can be fitted into such a small volume. Manufacturing costs also scale with the number of individual physical components used.