ZTE pays from 15 to 20 pounds for Microsoft Smartphone

The company ZTE, recently introduced in the UK market an inexpensive smart phone ZTE Tania, revealed the secret payments for the use of copies of mobile Windows Phone 7. A representative of the company told representatives of the resource Trusted Reviews, that for each unit at the expense of Microsoft Corporation transferred the sum of between £ 15 and £ 20. Mr. Santiago Sierra (Santiago Sierra), at an event to launch this unit indicated that it is the high cost of the operating system determines the price of a smartphone, which is for the buyer, with the discount in the contract actually compared with payments in favor of Microsoft. For comparison, nominally the Android OS is free for device manufacturers. In reality, Microsoft collects about half of the manufacturers with Android-devices for the use of funds owned patents. However, despite this production smartphone with this operating system is cheaper than Windows Phone 7. That high cost of the platform called the company ZTE to as reasons for the absence as cheap as it sets in on the Android.