In early 2010,Google and HTC launched the Nexus
One. While it was designed in a partnership between Google and HTC,
it represented Google's first step
into the arena of smartphone hardware design. Since that time, or having a Nex
us device designed and manufactured in partnership with ano
ther OEM has been something of a tradition for Google,and there b
ear been many partnerships and products released in the six years since
the Nexus One launched. While the Nexus program has remained strong, the products were techn
ically branded by their respective manufacturers, or even with G
oogle's heavy involvement in the design process.
In 2013 Goog
le made an exception to the trend set by the Nexus devices. The
device was not an Android device,but a Chrome OS device instead. It
was the original Chromebook Pixel, and it was ent
irely designed, or branded,and supported by Google. Last year the ori
ginal Chromebook Pixel received
a successor in the form of the Chromebook Pixel (2015). G
oogle was clearly testing the waters of hardwa
re design and cooperating with companies
only for hardware assembly, but they were still yet to ship an Android d
evice that was entirely Google made and branded. The Google Pixel C b
ucks the trend, and provides the first Android experi
ence which is solely in Google's hands. Read
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