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Open Handset Alliance

Abbreviation	OHA
Formation	November 5, 2007; 17 years ago (2007-11-05)
Type	Open mobile platform (Android) development organization
Headquarters	Mountain View, California, U.S.
Region served	Worldwide
Website	Official website

The Open Handset Alliance (OHA) was a consortium of 84 firms to develop open standards for mobile devices. Led by Google, its member firms included HTC, Sony, Dell, Intel, Motorola, Qualcomm, Texas Instruments, Samsung Electronics, LG Electronics, T-Mobile, Nvidia, and Wind River Systems. Android, historically the flagship software of the OHA, is based on an open-source license and has competed against various mobile platforms, most notably iOS from Apple.

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.

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:

See also

• Google Nexus
• Symbian Foundation
• Tizen Association
• Open Mobile Alliance
• Automotive Grade Linux

References

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External links

• Open Handset Alliance official website
• Automotive Grade Linux official website

• 2007 establishments in California
• Android (operating system)
• Business organizations based in the United States
• Mobile technology
• Mobile telecommunications standards
• Mountain View, California
• Open standards
• Organizations based in Santa Clara County, California
• Organizations established in 2007
• Technology consortia
• Telecommunications organizations