To me, this isn't so much the problem as the realities of producing a phone with a Bill of Materials like the one they're intending. I can't imagine that spec

To me, this isn't so much the problem as the realities of producing a phone with a Bill of Materials like the one they're intending. I can't imagine that spec sheet, at the end of 2013/beginning of 2014, is going to be cheap. They'd be hard pressed to manufacture this phone at all, let alone with sapphire screens and such. Think of it this way, Samsung won't even broker a discussion about RAM unless you order >100k units. If they sold 32M of phones at $600, that's about 53k handsets, which is about half of an initial production run for any serious manufacturer. I'm bearish, but I'd be thrilled if we had another competitor against iOS and Android. Blackberry and WP8 are not real contenders, Canonical could easily get the 3rd slot.