Android Police says that Google already had Huawei in mind to manufacture the Google Pixel phones that are now being made by HTC. The smartphone blog says it had a conversation with "people familiar with Huawei's operations" which gave them, and now us, an inside look at what went down behind the scenes between Google and the Chinese smartphone maker, Huawei. When Google brought Huawei onto the Nexus project to make the Nexus 6P, initially, Google told Huawei that the phone would be sold in all four major carriers. This immediately caught Huawei's attention, as the company had been looking...
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