This is still a thing? Now I'm curious; what did it cost Nokia to build the Lumia 520 (or 521) that I paid $35 for new from ATT about a year ago (no plan/no str

This is still a thing? Now I'm curious; what did it cost Nokia to build the Lumia 520 (or 521) that I paid $35 for new from ATT about a year ago (no plan/no strings, since unlocked for free) and just read this article on. And just to inform HN readers who may have no realistic concept of what kind of personal financial decisions are made by people that these phones specifically target... Dual SIM phones are big sellers in developing countries, so add another $1 for that or whatever (note that it's mentioned in the "Display: $8" photo of the Android One but not in the article). Dual SIMs aren't for the globe trotters out there, although very useful in my experience, but many if not most of these people will be on prepaid plans and without phone credits at times. The dual SIMs let users leverage different promotional calling/texting structures to reduce costs. As well, data for prepaid users is purchased in blocks of data size or time, so being able to switch off the connection to one SIM or the other offers another cost management tool.