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(6 years ago on this date) Google completes its $1.1B deal to buy a chunk of HTC's smartphone division | TechCrunch

Google completes its $1.1B deal to buy a chunk of HTC's smartphone division | TechCrunch

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7:11 AM GMT+1•January 30, 2018
- Cool, so it's like two years ago
  Oh...
  Oh no
What a pointless article
Buying new hardware engineers in Taiwan, after laying off hardware engineers in the US a couple weeks ago.
Sounds like offshoring to me.
EDIT: This is not recent news. Nevermind. Move along.
- This is an article from 2018.
  Not sure why OP posted this
  
  It happened 6 years ago day-to-day, just guessed it could remind some people about their HTC memories
  
  Ah, fuck. I got caught in the trap
htc one was my first ever android phone back in 2011?? i miss it
A few of my friends had HTC in 2008, those were cool devices
- The HTC One M8 is still one of the most fun phones I've ever used. I wish IR blasters would come back.
  
  That metal body was so nice. Plus you could unlock just about every part of an HTC.
  I miss HTC and the XDA forums for those devices...
- I had the evo 3d which had a 3d camera and screen that needs no glasses. It was actually effective and had a whopping 5 hours battery life haha.
  
  5 hours in 2012? That was pretty damn good! Haha
- I had the HTC One X which was literally hot. I couldn't use it for a few minutes without it burning my hands.
  Not cool.
And HTC was never the same again.
I miss that quiet brilliance.

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