HTC Pays Microsoft $5 Per Android Phone, Says Citi.

A rough estimate of the number of HTC Android devices shipped is 30 million. If HTC paid $5 per unit to Microsoft, that adds up to $150 million Android revenues for Microsoft.


Microsoft has admitted selling 2 million Windows Phone licenses.Estimating that the license fee is $15/WP phone, that makes Windows Phone revenues to date $30 million.So Microsoft has received five times more income from Android than from Windows Phone.


Looking forward and assuming that Microsoft can receive this type of settlement from about half of the Android license takers, then the prospects of a windfall from Android dwarf the expected income from Windows Phone.


Google’s Android seems the best thing that could have happened to Microsoft’s mobile efforts, ever.