The Open Handset Alliance (OHA) is a consortium led by Google that develops Android.

[1] Its member firms included HTC, Sony, Dell, Intel, Motorola, Qualcomm, Texas Instruments, Samsung Electronics, LG Electronics, T-Mobile, Nvidia, and Wind River Systems.

[4][5] 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.

[6] The first commercially available phone running Android was the HTC Dream (also known as the T-Mobile G1).

It was approved by the Federal Communications Commission (FCC) on August 18, 2008,[7] and became available on October 22 of that year.