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Open Handset Alliance
Consortium of firms that develops open standards for mobile devices From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
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The Open Handset Alliance (OHA) is a consortium led by Google that develops the Android mobile operating system.[1] Its member firms included HTC, Sony, Dell, Intel, Motorola, Qualcomm, Texas Instruments, Samsung Electronics, LG Electronics (formerly), T-Mobile, Nvidia, and Wind River Systems.[2]
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The OHA was established on November 5, 2007, with 34 members,[2] including mobile handset makers, application developers, some mobile network operators and chip makers.[3] 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]
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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.[2] An early look at the Android 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]
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The members of the Open Handset Alliance are:
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