Open Handset Alliance
The Open Handset Alliance was 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, 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.
Although not officially stated, the alliance has remained dormant, with many OHA partners having withdrawn from the smartphone market. The Open Handset Alliance's website was last updated in July 2011, suggesting the Alliance is no longer a going concern. This was also before Google developed their own line of phones with Google Pixel since October 2016, replacing their Nexus line of phones.
Products
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. An early look at the Android SDK was released to developers on November 12, 2007.The first commercially available phone running Android was the HTC Dream. It was approved by the Federal Communications Commission on August 18, 2008, and became available on October 22 of that year.