iSuppli’s estimated breakdown cost for the Palm Pre prompted no small amount of discussion late last month, with their prediction of $138 in hardware and a further $32 in software and IP licensing costs.  Now the analysts are back, offering their full Palm Pre teardown report for the bargain price of $1,999.

Yes, you read that correctly: if you’d like to know whether iSuppli’s headline-grabbing estimates were in the right ballpark or wildly inaccurate, you can find out for a dollar under $2k.  With that, you get the “real” bill of materials and “in-depth analysis into the semiconductor and component count”.

I’m sure, like me, you’re currently digging through your pockets trying to scrabble together all the spare change you have, so that you can pay someone else to break up a phone you can’t even buy yet.  Best of all, even iSuppli don’t know whether they got all the predictions right yet: they’re having to wait, like the rest of us, until Sprint and Palm launch the Pre.  Buyers will apparently receive the report “within days of the official product release”.