Open Handset Alliance
The Open Handset Alliance ( OHA ), a consortium of 87 companies (as of November 2013). The goal of this consortium is the creation of open standards for mobile devices. Members of the consortium are not allowed to make devices that use an incompatible version of the software to Android.
History
On November 5, 2007 Google founded with 33 partners the Open Handset Alliance. The founding members include software companies, handset manufacturers, network operators, chip manufacturers and marketing companies. The Android operating system is the main product of the Open Handset Alliance. It is an open source system based on Linux. The first commercially available device that is based on the work of the Open Handset Alliance, was the HTC Dream. It was approved on 18 August 2008 by the FCC. Since then, several manufacturers have devices with Android in its offer.
Members
Members of the Open Handset Alliance are ( full list here :):
- China Mobile
- KDDI
- NTT DoCoMo
- Sprint Nextel
- T -Mobile
- Telecom Italia
- Telefónica
- Ascender
- EBay
- Esmertecs
- Living Image
- Myriad
- NMS Communications
- Nuance Communications
- PacketVideo
- SkyPop
- SONiVOX
- Aplix
- Noser Engineering
- The Astonishing Tribe
- Wind River Systems
- Audience
- Broadcom Corporation
- Intel Corporation
- Marvell Technology Group
- Nvidia Corporation
- Qualcomm
- SiRF Technology Holdings
- Synaptics
- Texas Instruments
- HTC
- LG Electronics
- Motorola
- Samsung Electronics
- Vodafone
- Softbank
- Borqs
- Teleca
- AKM Semiconductor
- ARM
- Atheros Communications
- Ericsson Mobile Platforms
- ASUSTeK
- Garmin
- Huawei Technologies
- Sony Ericsson
- Toshiba
- SVOX
- Acer
- MIPS Technologies
- Sasken Communication Technologies
- NXP Software
- Access
- VisualOn
- Cooliris
- Motoya
- Accenture
- Larsen & Toubro Infotech
- SQLStar
- Wipro Technologies
- Cypress Semiconductor
- Freescale Semiconductor
- Gemalto
- Renesas Electronics
- Via Telecom