Microsoft offers a significant sum to Samsung to present new mobiles with windows phone
At the moment, the Finnish company Nokia is the owner of 90% of the smart mobile devices that work with Windows Phone. The remaining 10% is made up of some smartphones from firms such as HTC, Huawei or Samsung. Unfortunately for Microsoft, the percentage is too low, since it means that there are very few models that these firms have on the market. Microsoft's concern has been key in deciding to make this important decision. And it is that according to the latest news, that of Redmondwould have proposed to Samsung the delivery of a significant sum of one billion dollars so that the Koreans get back to work to develop devices with Windows Phone. The information has been leaked by Eldar Murtazin, a regular spreader of this kind of rumor, who claims that Samsung would still be studying the offer…
After the acquisition of Nokia (as you know, the Espoo manufacturer has definitely been part of Microsoft for a very few days), the Redmond one is trying to motivate other manufacturers to develop equipment based on its platform through significant incentives. The sum that it has offered to Samsung would be annual and would be especially focused on the launches of the new year 2014. Already at the time, when Nokia and Microsoft began to collaborate, the latter offered the company the sum of 250 million dollars per quarter. These were payments for support for the platform .
In recent times, Samsung has seen its Android devices reaping unprecedented success. Keep in mind that its main smartphones (Samsung Galaxy S4, Samsung Galaxy Note 3, Samsung Galaxy S3 …) work through the Google platform, but so do the most basic devices. The acceptance of this operating system has made Android currently have 80% of the market share. In that context, it seems that Samsung is little motivated to root its collaboration with Microsoft. So it seems that the Redmond proposal makes even more sense.
But Samsung would not be the only manufacturer that would bet on Windows Phone again. Just a few weeks ago, ZTE's executive vice president, He Shiyou, confirmed that the Chinese company would return to the platform some time after having collaborated with the manufacture of the first smartphones with Windows Phone 7. The firm intends to present new equipment from 2014 after having reached an agreement with Microsoft. Everything suggests that it would be certain guarantees, we assume that economic, to continue with development.
At the moment, there is no official data that can confirm Samsung's collaboration with Microsoft. The information leaked so far should be taken with caution, waiting for the next events in which Samsung participates (perhaps the Mobile World Congress 2014 could be a good time) the first teams are announced.
