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Abbreviation | OHA |
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Formation | October 10, 2007[1] |
Type | Open mobile platform (Android) development organization |
Legal status | Unknown |
Headquarters | Mountain View, California, U.S. |
Region served | Worldwide |
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Website | www |
The Open Handset Alliance (OHA) is a consortium of 84[2] 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, Sprint Corporation (now merged with T-Mobile US), Nvidia, and Wind River Systems.[3]
The OHA was established on November 5, 2007, led by Google with 34 members,[3] including mobile handset makers, application developers, some mobile network operators and chip makers.[4] Android, the flagship software of the alliance (first developed by Google in 2007), 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.[5][6]
At the same time as the announcement of the formation of the Open Handset Alliance on November 5, 2007, the OHA also unveiled Android, an open-source mobile phone platform based on the Linux kernel.[3] An early look at the SDK was released to developers on November 12, 2007.[7]
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,[8] and became available on October 22 of that year.[9]
The members of the Open Handset Alliance are:
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