iPhone 3G's building cost is just $173..

Its just $173 to build the Apple’s iPhone 3G. Earlier this month on 9th, 2008, Apple introduced the new iPhone 3G that combines the features of the iPhone 2.0 software with both the iPhone SDK and supports the Microsoft Exchange ActiveSync to provide email, contact and calendar syncing along with remote wipe and Cisco IPsec VPN. Earlier IPhone 3G was said to be available in the US on July 11 for a price of $199 for the 8GB model and $299 for the 16GB model in both Apple and AT&T’s retail stores.

Additional features available with the iPhone 2.0 software include the ability to do real-time mapping, track your progress with GPS technology, access a new scientific calculator, save images directly from a web page or email them to your iPhone etc. IPhone covers10 hours and 5 hours of talk time on 2G and 3G networks, 5 to 6 hours of web browsing, 7 hours for video playback and up to 24 hours for audio playback.
According to the sources the iPhone 3G will be for sale in New Zealand on Friday July 11 at 00:01 and by July 10th at 13:01 hours in London. For more details on iPhone 3G just log on to www.apple.com/iphone.