Type
Founded	2007
Headquarters
Website	http://www.openhandsetalliance.com/

The Open Handset Alliance (abbreviated OHA) is a business alliance comprising Google, HTC, Intel, Motorola, Qualcomm, T-Mobile, and NVIDIA whose goal is to develop open standards for mobile devices.^[1] Image File history File links No higher resolution available. ... Image File history File links Metadata Size of this preview: 600 × 600 pixelsFull resolution (2400 × 2400 pixels, file size: 917 KB, MIME type: image/jpeg)Logo for the Open Handset Alliance. ... A website (alternatively, Web site or web site) is a collection of Web pages, images, videos or other digital assets that is hosted on one or several Web server(s), usually accessible via the Internet, cell phone or a LAN. A Web page is a document, typically written in HTML... A business alliance is an agreement between businesses, usually motivated by cost reduction and improved service for the customer. ... This article is about the corporation. ... High Tech Computer Corporation (TSEC: 2498), known by its acronym HTC, is a Taiwan-based manufacturer of Microsoft Windows CE portable devices. ... Intel Corporation (NASDAQ: INTC, SEHK: 4335), founded in 1968 as Integrated Electronics Corporation, is an American multinational corporation that is best known for designing and manufacturing microprocessors and specialized integrated circuits. ... Motorola Inc. ... Qualcomm (NASDAQ: QCOM) is a wireless telecommunications research and development company based in San Diego, California. ... T-Mobile logo T-Mobile is a multinational mobile phone operator. ... NVIDIA Corporation (NASDAQ: NVDA) (pronounced IPA: ) is a U.S. corporation specializing in the manufacture of graphics processors (graphics processing units, GPUs) technologies for workstations, desktop computers, and handhelds. ... Open source refers to projects that are open to the public and which draw on other projects that are freely available to the general public. ...

History

The OHA was started with 34 members on 5 November 2007, led by Google, and mostly mobile handset makers, application developers, and some mobile carriers as well as chip makers make up the Open Handset Alliance.^[2]. However, Nokia, AT&T and Verizon Wireless have not joined this alliance yet. However, Android, the centerpiece of this alliance, is based on Linux open source licencing and is expected to provide a big challenge against other mobile platforms initiated individually by Apple, Microsoft, Symbian, Nokia, Palm, and Research In Motion. is the 309th day of the year (310th in leap years) in the Gregorian calendar. ... This article is about the fruit. ... Microsoft Corporation, (NASDAQ: MSFT, HKSE: 4338) is a multinational computer technology corporation with global annual revenue of US$44. ... Symbian OS is an operating system with associated libraries, user interface frameworks and reference implementations of common tools, produced by Symbian. ... This article is about the telecommunications corporation. ... Look up Palm in Wiktionary, the free dictionary. ... Research In Motion Limited (RIM) (TSX: RIM, NASDAQ: RIMM) is a Canadian wireless device company. ...

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Products

Android

Main article: Android (mobile phone platform)

At the same time as the announcement of the formation of the Open Handset Alliance on 5 November, 2007, the OHA also unveiled Android, an open source mobile phone platform based on the Linux operating system.^[1] An early look at the SDK has been released to developers on 12 November, 2007.^[3] Android is a Java/Linux-based smartphone software platform announced by Google and the other members of the Open Handset Alliance on 5 November 2007. ... is the 309th day of the year (310th in leap years) in the Gregorian calendar. ... Android is a Java/Linux-based smartphone software platform announced by Google and the other members of the Open Handset Alliance on 5 November 2007. ... Open source refers to projects that are open to the public and which draw on other projects that are freely available to the general public. ... In computing, a platform describes some sort of framework, either in hardware or software, which allows software to run. ... This article is about operating systems that use the Linux kernel. ... An operating system (OS) is the software that manages the sharing of the resources of a computer and provides programmers with an interface used to access those resources. ... A Software Development Kit, or SDK for short, is typically a set of development tools that allows a software engineer to create applications for a certain software package, software framework, hardware platform, computer system, operating system or similar. ... is the 316th day of the year (317th in leap years) in the Gregorian calendar. ...

References

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External links

• Open Handset Alliance official site