Open Handset Alliance

Open Handset Alliance
Abbreviation	OHA
Formation	November 5, 2007; 16 years ago
Type	Open mobile platform (Android) development organization
Headquarters	Mountain View, California, U.S.
Region served	Worldwide
Website	Official website

The Open Handset Alliance (OHA) is a consortium of 84 firms to develop open standards for mobile devices. Member firms include HTC, Sony, Dell, Intel, Motorola, Qualcomm, Texas Instruments, Google, Samsung Electronics, LG Electronics, T-Mobile, Nvidia, and Wind River Systems.^[1]^[2]

History

The OHA was established on November 5, 2007, led by Google with 34 members,^[1] including mobile handset makers, application developers, some mobile network operators and chip makers.^[3] Android, the flagship software of the alliance, is based on an open-source license and has competed against mobile platforms from Apple (iOS), Microsoft (Windows Phone), Nokia (Symbian), HP (formerly Palm), Samsung Electronics / Intel (Tizen, bada), and BlackBerry (BlackBerry OS).

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.^[4]^[5]

Products

At the same time as the announcement of the formation of the Open Handset Alliance on November 5, 2007, the OHA also unveiled Android Open Source Project, an open-source mobile phone platform based on the Linux kernel.^[1] An early look at the SDK was released to developers on November 12, 2007.^[6]

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,^[7] and became available on October 22 of that year.^[8]

Members

The members of the Open Handset Alliance are:

Joining date	Network operators	Software developers	Component manufacturers	Device manufacturers	Other
November 2007^[9]	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^[10]	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^[11]	SVOX^[12]		Acer^[13]
September 2009				MIPS Technologies^[14]
January 2010	Bouygues Telecom^[15]			ZTE Corporation^[16]	Sasken Communication Technologies Limited^[17]
May 2010		NXP Software^[18]
July 2010		Access^[19]		MediaTek^[20]
November 2010		VisualOn^[21]
June 2011		Intrinsyc
July 2011		Andago
Date unknown	China Telecommunications Corporation Telus^[22]	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

References

External links

Open Handset Alliance official website
Automotive Grade Linux official website

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