You do have to license patents". He also revealed that HTC is paying a per-handset fee to Microsoft over patents.
So far it has signed up five companies which are paying a per-handset fee of about $5. Google added 2,452 employees in the second quarter, including 450 workers inherited as part of the company's $700m purchase of airline fare tracker ITA Software.
Another thing he'll be bringing from Dolby is some licensing nous: "It would be a per-handset fee with the price dependent on how much functionality the carrier wanted to enable," he tells me.
T-Mobile will no longer be charging customers its customary $18 'Handset Upgrade Fee' when they want to buy a new mobile device (but apparently it won't be refunding any recent customer upgrade fees).
The per month handset payback fee is also less, with the $18.25 plan and a 12-month contract, monthly pricing for the 8GB model starts at $47, and $56.60 a month for the 16GB iPhone.
And unlike Symbian, Microsoft and the large number of other phone operating systems available, OpenMoko gives developers an easy way to create applications and deliver services without the per-handset license fees or headaches of porting to multiple platforms.
And as you can tell from the pie graph below, close to 38% of these apps are paid, while 62% of the apps cost as much as the license fee handset manufacturers need to fork over to Google for use of the Android OS.
The firm has not released details of its agreement with the record companies, but it is said that they will receive a fixed fee per handset, have been guaranteed a large number of handset sales, and will receive additional fees once a subscriber exceeds a certain number of downloads.
That's because the Android handset attracts a patent fee payable to Microsoft, while the Windows Phone one won't.
To comply with a European antitrust ruling, Google will begin charging a licensing fee of handset makers.
