Open Handset Alliance

The Open Handset Alliance (OHA) is a consortium led by Google that developed the Android mobile operating system. Its member firms included HTC, Sony, Dell, Intel, Motorola, Qualcomm, Texas Instruments, Samsung Electronics, LG Electronics (formerly), T-Mobile, Nvidia, and Wind River Systems.

History The OHA was established on November 5, 2007, with 34 members, including mobile handset makers, application developers, some mobile network operators and chip makers. As part of its efforts to promote a unified Android platform, OHA members are contractually forbidden from producing devices that are based on competing forks of Android.

By 2011, Ars Technica said it served "little purpose besides a stamp of approval for OHA members".

A similar consortium was created in January 2014, the Open Automotive Alliance, to bring the Android platform to vehicles.

Products At the same time as the announcement of the formation of the Open Handset Alliance on November 5, 2007, the OHA also unveiled the Android Open Source Project, an open-source mobile phone platform based on the Linux kernel. An early look at the Android SDK was released to developers on November 12, 2007.

The first commercially available phone running Android was the HTC Dream (also known as the T-Mobile G1). It was approved by the Federal Communications Commission (FCC) on August 18, 2008, and became available on October 22 of that year.

Members

The members of the Open Handset Alliance are:

Joining date Network operators Software developers Component manufacturers Device manufacturers Other November 2007 KDDI Corporation NTT DoCoMo Sprint Nextel T-Mobile China Mobile Telecom Italia Telefónica Ascender Corporation eBay Google LivingImage Myriad Nuance Communications PacketVideo SkyPop SONiVOX Wind River Systems Audience Broadcom Corporation CSR Plc. Intel Corporation Marvell Technology Group NVIDIA Corporation Qualcomm Synaptics Texas Instruments HTC LG Sony (joined as Sony Ericsson) Motorola Mobility (joined as Motorola) Samsung Electronics Flex Comix Nexus Telecom The Astonishing Tribe December 2008 Vodafone Softbank OMRON AKM Semiconductor ARM Atheros Communications ST-Ericsson (joined as Ericsson Mobile Platforms) Asus Garmin Huawei Technologies (banned May 2019) Sony Mobile (joined as Sony Ericsson) Toshiba Borqs Teleca May–June 2009 China Unicom SVOX Acer September 2009 MIPS Technologies January 2010 Bouygues Telecom ZTE Corporation Sasken Communication Technologies Limited May 2010 NXP Software July 2010 Access MediaTek November 2010 VisualOn June 2011 Intrinsyc July 2011 Andago Date unknown, before 2015 China Telecommunications Corporation Telus Cooliris Motoya Co., Ltd. Cypress Semiconductor Corporation Freescale Semiconductor Gemalto Renesas Electronics Corporation Via Technologies Alcatel Mobile Phones Compal Communications Dell Foxconn Haier Kyocera Lenovo NEC Sharp Corporation Saygus Honor Accenture L&T Infotech SQL Star International Inc. Wipro Technologies

Open Handset Alliance

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