The big happy family involved with making Android - friendly software and twist just grew by fourteen appendage , and while there are still several heavy not present , the new list is interesting .
The new members are :
AKM Semiconductor Inc. , ARM , ASUSTek Computer Inc. , Atheros Communications , Borqs , Ericsson , Garmin International Inc. , Huawei Technologies , Omron Software Co. Ltd , Softbank Mobile Corporation , Sony Ericsson , Teleca AB , Toshiba Corporation and Vodafone .
connect the founding member ( minus the minor players here ):
China Mobile
KDDI Corporation
NTT DoCoMo
Sprint Nextel
T - Mobile
Telecom Italia
Telefónica
Ascender Corporation
eBay
Google
Broadcom Corporation
Intel Corporation
Nvidia Corporation
Qualcomm
Synaptics
Texas Instruments
HTC
LG
Motorola
Samsung Electronics
And a pick of the big hot dog still missing ( with most likely to quell that way ) are :
• Nokia
• AT&T
• Apple
• Microsoft
• RIM
• Verizon
• Palm
While membership in the OHA can mean any phone number of thing ( from plainly contributing in some way to the Android seed code to bring on an actual Android twist ) , it ’s interesting to see a wide range of society joining up . Sony Ericsson is a big score , hardware wise , and Garmin is the first navigation company to be a penis — I could see an Android - powered nav gimmick , if perform right and backed by a major player , filling the niche thatDashstarted to search . And permit ’s not forget the evermore delayedNuvifone — Android is perfectly suited to something like that . Why would Garmin build its own smartphone O from scratch when it could plainly modify an open source foundation garment that ’s already out there , and free ?
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