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If they receive, as some analysts have estimated, a total of €4 ($5.60) per handset per month (about half the cost of all-you-can-eat subscription services on the internet) and Nokia sells 5m CWM handsets, the additional income would add up to €240m ($338m)—equivalent to more than 1% of global recorded-music sales in 2007 and 12% of the digital business.
These devices are not cheap, at ¥89,000 per handset and a further ¥58,000 for the software.
Industry sources suggested that HTC may have agreed to pay Apple between $5£3.1515) and $20 per handset that it produces with Google's Android operating system.
If Windows Phone licence from Microsoft costs you around $25 (a guess), but the patent payments are costing you $24 per handset, is it really worth persisting?
Best brainwave: making Android free for mobile handset makers, and tying Google services into it – a far simpler model than Microsoft's "pay per handset" version.
Sony Ericsson and Nokia suggested in 2008 that the amount payable per handset should be capped at less than 10% of the handset price.
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Patent payments relating to phones are generally made on a per-handset basis at a fixed licence fee for any phones that would be judged to infringe the relevant patents.
The agreement means that HTC is effectively making per-handset payments to three rivals - Apple, with which it signed a similar agreement in November 2012, Microsoft, and now Nokia.
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