Linked by Eugenia Loli-Queru on Thu 27th Jan 2005 09:37 UTC
After playing around with my brand new infrared v90 modem for my PDAs (expect a review soon), it got me thinking...
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The IR costs about $2 USD. It's by far the cheapest of all. Bluetooth and WiFi cost about $10 each to implement in the OEM circles. Ethernet and modem is less than $7 each. The rest, is just the hardware parts, R&D, driver writing, and testing.
I believe that $99 is realistic these days for such a device, however, even if the device was offered at, let's say, $129, it would still be a good price for the features.