Open Handset Alliance

The Open Handset Alliance, also called OHA by many people, is a business alliance. It includes 80 companies to help improve open standards for mobile phones. Members of this include Google, HTC, Sony, Dell, Intel, Motorola, Qualcomm, Texas Instruments, Samsung, LG, T-Mobile, Nvidia, and Wind River Systems.

History
The OHA was started on 5 November 2007 by Google and 34 other companies. The companies included mobile phone manufacturers, application developers, mobile network operators and processor makers.

Android is the main software of the alliance.

References

Google enters the wireless world
Google's wireless initiatives go beyond Android

Other websites
Open Handset Alliance official site
Google's Android and the Open Handset Alliance (Exxplain.com video)

Category:Mobile phone companies