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[–] ExcessShiv@lemmy.dbzer0.com 239 points 1 day ago* (last edited 1 day ago) (23 children)

I am genuinely surprised... I didn't know HTC even still existed

[–] 23lonestar@thelemmy.club 111 points 1 day ago (6 children)

They do, just don't release phones in the States anymore. It's a shame because I really liked their phones.

[–] Ebby@lemmy.ssba.com 89 points 1 day ago* (last edited 1 day ago) (1 children)

"In May 2019, then-United States President Donald Trump announced that HUAWEI and several other Chinese companies were now on the “Entity List.” Companies on this list cannot do business with any organization that operates in the United States."

Oh good golly it's going to be a wonderful day today!

Edit: as ahornsirup pointed out, this isn't really relevant. I got crossed up searching HTC with Huawei somewhere along the line.

[–] ITGuyLevi@programming.dev 9 points 1 day ago (1 children)

Just like so many other things, I'm sure that bit will be buried.

[–] ahornsirup@feddit.org 33 points 1 day ago (1 children)

Well, HTC is Taiwanese so there really isn't much of a story there.

[–] Ebby@lemmy.ssba.com 9 points 1 day ago* (last edited 1 day ago)

Facepalm

Wow, my google-fu failed me pretty spectacularly. I was searching the HTC ban for patent infringement from Apple and at some point crossed with Huawei.

Though having said that, hey Apple, does that camera protrusion look familiar? Ask your lawyers!

[–] ExcessShiv@lemmy.dbzer0.com 8 points 1 day ago (2 children)

Haven't seen them here in Europe in over a decade I think.

[–] Tollana1234567@lemmy.today 1 points 16 hours ago* (last edited 16 hours ago)

same here, it was a big thing in the us as a cheap non-google, samsung or apple phone until they banned most huwei tech for "spying potential", we know the us does it worst.

[–] Nighed@feddit.uk 2 points 1 day ago* (last edited 1 day ago) (2 children)

All the recent Nokia's were theirs, so probably more recent than you think. But yeh, nothing since then I think?

Or am I getting my 3 letter company names mixed up?

[–] JohnEdwa@sopuli.xyz 8 points 1 day ago* (last edited 1 day ago)

Yes. Post-microsoft Nokias are/were made by Human Mobile Devices.

I'm not getting the new NSA phone, that's certain.

[–] 01189998819991197253@infosec.pub 3 points 23 hours ago

I really liked their phones.

Have I got good new for you! AND, it'll be gold ᶜᵒˡᵒʳᵉᵈ!

[–] TimothyOilypants@lemmy.ca 5 points 1 day ago (1 children)

The Dream and Magic were the beginning of an era!

[–] cecilkorik@piefed.ca 5 points 19 hours ago

They were the beginning of a Dream that turned into a nightmare (first for HTC, then for consumers).

Fuck, remember when Android was genuinely open source and we had a little computer with mobile internet that fit in our pockets that we could install our own open source OS ROMs on? What an incredible time to be alive that was.

[–] Eeyore_Syndrome@sh.itjust.works 3 points 1 day ago (1 children)

I thought they were called Google Pixels now since Google bought them for $1.1B in 2017.

[–] 23lonestar@thelemmy.club 36 points 1 day ago

Looks like HTC worked with Google on the first Pixel then sold them about half of the R&D talent and non-exclusive rights on the technology. So yes and no.

[–] Vince@lemmy.world 2 points 1 day ago

Definitely a shame, I swear the second they announce an htc g3, im buying

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