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Key facts
- Abbreviation
- OHA
- Formation
- November 5, 2007 ; 18 years ago ( 2007-11-05 )
- Type
- Open mobile platform ( Android ) development organization
- Headquarters
- Mountain View, California , U.S.
- Region served
- Worldwide
- Website
- Official website
via Wikipedia infobox
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Encyclopedic overview
The Open Handset Alliance (OHA) is a consortium led by Google that developed the Android mobile operating system. Its member firms included HTC, Sony, Dell, Intel, Motorola, Qualcomm, Texas Instruments, Samsung Electronics, LG Electronics (formerly), T-Mobile, Nvidia, and Wind River Systems.
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.
Excerpted from Wikipedia’s “Open Handset Alliance” article, available under the CC BY-SA 4.0 licence.