Microsoft's latest and greatest
mobile OS? A fair bit it seems.
While numbers have been
bandied around before, this is
the first time a per-handset
figure was to an internal
employee -- this time, the
portfolio manager for ZTE UK, no
less. Pegged at $27 per ZTE
smartphone, TrustedReviews
managed to get those licensing
beans spilled at the glitzy London
launch of the company's first
Windows Phone ZTE Tania. The
fee flies in the face of open-
source Android, which requires
no price to install on handsets.
Microsoft, however, is still
keeping an eye on its Google
rival, collecting patent licensing
fees from several major phone
manufacturers.
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