Not exact matches
Google
partner Motorola has already released its Honeycomb - based tablet, the Xoom, and other
manufactures are working on Honeycomb tablets of their own, including Samsung, Dell,
HTC, and Acer.
However, the company has also
partnered with
HTC for
manufacturing Nexus 7 before collaborating for
manufacture of Nexus 9.
So far we've confirmed that the smaller Pixel 2,
manufactured by newly - mint
partner HTC, will have the same squeezable Active Edge sides found in the
HTC U11.
The headsets will be made with various
manufacturing partners, beginning with
HTC and Lenovo.
Acquiring the
HTC Pixel team will enable Google to have more control over design and production while ensuring all of its efforts aren't taken down by a financial disaster facing a key
manufacturing partner.
It's likely that given Google's
manufacturing partners for the Pixel 2 and Pixel 2 XL, that the devices could share subtle similarities with the
HTC U11 and LG G6, with Blass citing
HTC's front - facing BoomSound speakers and squeeze - sensitive frame as examples.
For carriers, the major warning sign hangs over whether they'll have an assured supply of units to sell — in spite of not selling all that many, Google couldn't keep up with demand for last year's Pixels, but at least this year it has distributed the risk more broadly by using two
manufacturing partners:
HTC for the smaller Pixel and LG for the larger one.
As you may know, no Nexus device was made by Google, instead, the company
partnered with the likes of Huawei, LG,
HTC and Motorola to
manufacture these devices.
This absence is, in fact, the primary aesthetic distinction between this handset and an Apple offering — a fact likely due to the
manufacturing proclivities of design
partner HTC, the arc of which, it seems, will invariably bend toward the iPhone.
HTC was the
manufacturing partner for the original Pixel devices in 2016.
The upcoming smartphones, for which Google has tapped
HTC as its
manufacturing partner, will be breaking Google's six - year tradition of naming the devices with the Nexus brand.
First, Google could become
HTC's strategic
partner when it comes to designing and
manufacturing smartphones, possibly
HTC providing Google with assets and
manufacturing capabilities.
Google's Pixel and Pixel XL actually would have sold far better than they have so far if not for
manufacturing issues that have left Google and its ODM
partner HTC completely unable to keep up with demand.
HTC represents a «true»
manufacturing partner, one that has skill and experience in making handsets to specification and one of the world's leading phone design departments - in short, a greater ability to offer premium handsets, where Motorola offered the chance to enter the budget smartphone market.