Huawei Turned Down Chance To Manufacture Pixel Phones – Report

Only a few hours are left until Google announces its upcoming Pixel and Pixel XL smartphones, developed in partnership with HTC. The phones were initially called Nexus Sailfish and Marlin, but it seems that Google changed its mind recently and rebranded them to Pixel smartphones.

Although HTC is the manufacturer of the two phones, it seems that the company wasn’t Google’s first choice. Seeing how last year’s Nexus 6P received relatively good reviews from critics and consumers, Google had placed Huawei at the top of the list of potential partners for the Pixel phones, according to a report by Android Police.

Negotiations between Huawei and Google reportedly broke down after the latter company demanded that partners not place their logos on upcoming