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Microsoft is paying Nokia $230 for each Windows phone in an effort to catch up with Apple and Google in the cell phone market.

That's the estimate made by Forbes. Microsoft paid venture partner Nokia $250 million, which shipped 1 million Windows phones. Microsoft receives a license from Nokia of about $20 per phone; or a $230 price that Forbes calls "desperation."

Microsoft paid Nokia $250 million in the fourth quarter of 2011 under an agreement that has Nokia adopting Windows Phone 7 as Nokia’s primary smartphone platform.

The payment was spelled out in Nokia’searnings statement, which says Microsoft will spend billions more on the Nokia partnership.