The two companies have a close relationship, with HTC manufacturing Google’s Pixel smartphone. It also previously made products in the obsolete Nexus range. HTC was also the first company to release a smartphone using Android, the HTC Dream, in 2008.
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Osterloh wrote: "Creating beautiful products that people rely on every single day is a journey, and we are investing for the long run.
"That’s why we’ve signed an agreement with HTC, a leader in consumer electronics, that will fuel even more product innovation in the years ahead."
Osterloh said the agreement includes a "team of HTC talent" and a non-exclusive licence for HTC intellectual property.
, but will not involve any of HTC’s manufacturing assets.
Google previously acquired Motorola in 2011 for $12.5bn, but sold the brand three years later for just $2.9bn to Lenovo – though it retained most of the patents it gained with the acquisition. .
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