Microsoft takes money from Huawei Android sales for each

Microsoft continues its path, rubbing of the criticisms from Google. All manufacturers of mobile phones with pass through “tax” to be paid in Redmond for each device with Android sold for reasons of “license”. The Chinese telecommunications giant Huawei has confirmed that Microsoft claims to royalty payments with respect to products with the Android software.


Victor Xu, Chief Marketing Officer for Huawei devices, has confirmed to the Guardian that “negotiations are ongoing” on the license of certain patents that the software giant Microsoft says the U.S. has been violating the hardware implementations of Android.

Yes, Microsoft came to us. We have always respected the intellectual property of companies, but we also have 65,000 patents worldwide. We have enough to protect our interests. We are a very important player for Android.

Microsoft has already made arrangements for royalty Android device for the products of at least 10 companies, including Samsung, the largest producer in the world of smartphones, HTC, Compal Electronics (whose clients include Dell, HP and Toshiba), Quanta Computer, Wistron, General Dynamics Itronix, Velocity Micro, Onkyo, Acer and Viewsonic. In a post in October by Brad Smith of Microsoft has been written that the licensing agreement with Compal has meant that “half of the manufacturing companies of all Android devices have entered into licensing agreements for patents with Microsoft.”

Xu suggested that the acquisition of Motorola’s Mobility Warehouse, which is still in progress, could lead to greater protection by licensing Google Android. Huawei continues to have great ambitions for the smartphone market:

Over the next three years we aim to be among the top five manufacturers of smartphones, and among the top three in the next five years. We have set very aggressive targets for the market.