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According to the rumors, HTC might be selling off its Smartphone business — which would be rather sad given how good their smartphones were (cc the HTC M8).
No specific names were mentioned, but people are already suggesting that Google might be the best fit to buy the company’s smartphone business since it had a hand in making the Pixel devices.
However, before you go into early mourning, you should also bear in mind that this isn’t the first time HTC has been rumored to sell off its smartphone business, so take this one with a grain of salt.
According to the Taiwanese media (via Softpedia), HTC denied the rumors but didn’t give any other details.