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The bottom of the article says the phone is assembled by HTC. I suppose the difference between this and the Google Nexus phones is that Google is no longer doing hardware design in collaboration with outside manufacturers. However, collaboration in hardware assembly continues.


Yes It is moving from an ODM/JDM relationship to Google being the OEM and HTC being the EMS.


You managed to use 5 acronyms in one sentence. Unfortunately even though I have been an programmer for a while I was unable to understand any of them, also googling is not that helpful. Could you elaborate?


ODM: original device manufacturer

JDM: joint device manufacturer

OEM: original equipment manufacturer

EMS: electronics manufacturing service


Sorry about that (and thanks kogepathic for expanding)!


Curious to know what's the diff of using HTC and partnership with Huawei, LG for past Nexus. It appears to be the same arrangement as Nexus, except this time Google is able to place only their logo on the phone. If it is all deigned by Google, wouldn't it be cheaper for Google to get lower tier manufacturer such as Foxconn to produce?




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