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Teardown Confirms the Trump Phone Is a Gold-Painted HTC U24 Pro (www.ifixit.com)
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[–] 250 points 3 months ago* (23 children)

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

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  • [–] 117 points 3 months ago (15 children)

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

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  • [–] 92 points 3 months ago* (last edited 3 months ago) (3 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.

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  • [–] 10 points 3 months ago (2 children)

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

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  • [–] 34 points 3 months ago (1 child)

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

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  • [–] 10 points 3 months 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!

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  • [–] 8 points 3 months ago (4 children)

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

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  • [–] 2 points 3 months 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?

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  • [–] 4 points 3 months ago (1 child)

    The Dream and Magic were the beginning of an era!

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  • [–] 5 points 3 months 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.

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  • [–] 1 point 3 months ago

    My Taiwanese friend pushed these so hard, but at the time, isn't ready to jump ship to Android quite yet. I ended up getting an Xperia for my first android because nothing looked interesting enough from HTC. I kept waiting for that "one," but they just said fuck it we're not making shit anymore. They also tried to jump onto the crypto bandwagon with a built-in wallet or something. I dunno why anyone would need that when you have a bajillion software wallets.

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