Open Handset Alliance

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Introduction

The Open Handset Alliance is a group of 34 companies who teamed up with Google in an effort to create an open platform for mobile development called Android. The members of this Alliance have been working since 2004 to make the Android project a success. Below is a list of some of those companies:

  • NVIDIA
  • INTEL
  • Texas Instruments
  • Synaptics
  • Marvell
  • Qualcomm
  • Motorola
  • Samsung
  • T-Mobile
  • Sprint
  • LG
  • HTC
  • KDDI
  • DoCoMo
  • China Mobile Comm. Corp

By the end of 2008, HTC's Dream is supposed to hit the markets as the first Android powered phone.

References

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  1. Open Handset Alliance. Retrieved on 2008-08-09.
  2. Gizmodo Scoop about the Alliance and Android. Retrieved on 2008-08-09.