The prospect of a technological world supporting wide-ranging open standards for mobile devices took another leap forward this week after a further 14 industry players announced their backing for the Open Handset Alliance (OHA).
Notable tech players sign up to support Android and the Open Handset Alliance. Image: OHA.
Officially confirmed on Tuesday, heavyweight mobile phone manufacturers and chipmakers such as ASUSTeK, Sony Ericsson, Vodafone, Toshiba and AKM Semiconductor have joined founding members including Google, Sprint Nextel, NTT DoCoMo, Intel, Marvell Technology, and NVIDIA.
The Open Handset Alliance supports Google’s recently released open-source Android mobile device platform, which is presently available on T-Mobile’s G1 phone (a.k.a. the HTC Dream).
Accompanying the 14 freshly announced backers, the spread of Android looks set to continue through one of the mobile phone industry’s most influential manufacturers thanks to Sony Ericsson also revealing it intends to launch an Android-supported handset during the second or third quarter of 2009.
Other new additions to the steadily expanding Open Handset Alliance include Softbank, Omron Software, Teleca, Atheros Communications, ARM, Garmin, and Huawei Technologies.
Notably, the alliance does not carry the support of several industry rivals that offer or provide backing to competing mobile platforms. Those rivals include Apple, Microsoft, Nokia, Palm, Research In Motion, Symbian and Verizon Wireless.
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