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How much of a win for Microsoft is Android?

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For the sake of discussion, let’s use $3 per device as our figure. This number is an estimate, but given all information in the market it’s our best guesstimate. We can now do the math: 860 million Android devices in 2013, of which 65% pay Microsoft a fee, and that fee being $3 leaves Microsoft with $1.677 billion in Android revenue this year. That works out to just over $400 million per quarter, which fits with our earlier statements of Android patent revenue being in the low hundreds of millions. The Next Web looks at just how much Android is

Sony’s maturing Android smartphone range

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From my review of the Xperia Z, on Forbes: Sony has put out a phone that knows exactly what it wants to be. Sony wants to be a player, it wants to be established, and for that it needs to be seen as a stable and worthy manufacturer. The Xperia S proved that Sony could build a good phone, the Xperia T showed an iterative approach and a new found confidence in styling and advertising, and the Xperia Z is a handset that delivers everything you expect, has the style, and gives you the confidence it will not be out

As Rubin Leaves, Did He Solve The ‘Device by Device’ mobile build issue?

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Google’s blog post on Andy Rubin ‘handing over the reins’ of Android to Sundar Pichai has this doozy: But his insight immediately struck a chord because at the time it was extremely painful developing services for mobile devices. We had a closet full of more than 100 phones and were building our software pretty much device by device. It was nearly impossible for us to make truly great mobile experiences. Go on, ask any Android developer how many mobile devices they have to address with the platform to make a great mobile experience. I guess that Pichai’s first task will

Of course Microsoft’s Joe Belfiore is using an Android smartphone

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So Microsoft’s Joe Belfiore tweeted with an Android device, to talk about a Windows Phone? Good. Yes there’s an argument that any public facing executive needs to be 100% on message, but I think it’s far more important that the top-level execs who are imparting the vision and direction on their platform have real world experience of the competing platforms. I would hope that Belfiore is a ‘power’ user on Android, iOS, and BlackBerry 10 (when it arrives) as well as Windows Phone.

Now Phil has left Nokia, what’s it really like to use an Android smartphone?

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Phil Schwarzmann: I purchased a Google Nexus so I can switch to Straight Talk and give my posterior a break from AT&T’s onslaught. Is this what the general public want in a phone??? I could Hulk Hogan the cheap plastic in half with my bare hands. I’ve had easier time putting on condoms than inserting the Nexus’ flimsy back cover… And now for the software – Did Google outsource the design of each individual Android screen to a Korean child animator working in silos? There’s zero consistency in the UI. It’s full of buried menus and Windows 95-style icons. The