And they could have gotten an even more knock down price on any Froyo or Ginberbread devices...
I've seen them knocking about at £80/unit wholesale...
iPhone4 only every gets as low as £145/unit wholesale.
iOS devices might have shineyer software, but if you want somthing to intergrate with anything with a database or web services, you can do it 100 times easyer with Android OS, API 8 (Froyo) Onwards, libraries are there for direct interaction, and it's written atop of J2SE, so any massive J2EE servers that NR have kicking about, or SQL servers, ASP etc. Can all be interacted with in real time, in a natively supported manner. Therefore more reliable and easyer to update.