Google just jumped into bed with HTC thanks to this mouth watering deal.

HTC and Google have officially announced something of a marriage of sorts friends with benefits type deal.

Apparently, Google will pay HTC $1.1 billion in exchange for some of its employees, granting them in the process, access to HTC’s intellectual property as well as access to HTC’s manufacturing patents and designs for its future Pixel devices. Although, said merger is still waiting to be approved by regulatory officials and is expected to complete in early 2018, It nevertheless will help HTC to excel with its upcoming/in development phone and help expand its VIVE VR platform as well as augmented reality and artificial intelligence. The announcement was made yesterday by senior vice president of hardware at Google Rick Osterloh.

Should/when this merger comes to pass; it may prove mutually beneficial to both companies involved. Much as it seems like Google is that immutable giant, they still lack that in-house produced flagship phone and to this day have relied on other OEM’s producing phones according to their specifications. With this merger, Google could be well on their way to combating the likes of Apple bymaking that produced by/running on android true flagship phone. HTC on the other hand have been literally staggering behind the competition and has been in desperate need of a win since the HTC One M8.

Really rooting for HTC and the upcoming Pixel and Pixel XL 2.