The alliance is seen as a competitor to other groups like Android's Open Handset Alliance.
Also in 2007, Matteson designed the Android mobile-phone platform supported by the Open Handset Alliance.
Google selected the judges from the member organizations of the Open Handset Alliance, Google and mobile experts.
Open standards industry initiatives such as the Open Handset Alliance are designed to help mobile technology vendors deliver on this promise.
On 9 December 2008, the Open Handset Alliance announced that Asus had become one of 14 new members of the organization.
It is based on technologies initially developed by Android Inc ., a firm later purchased by Google, and work done by the Open Handset Alliance.
The site contains reference information for community based developer products that Google is involved with like Android from the Open Handset Alliance and OpenSocial from the OpenSocial Foundation.
Although analysts were impressed with the respected technology companies that had partnered with Google to form the Open Handset Alliance, it was unclear whether mobile phone manufacturers would be willing to replace their existing operating systems with Android.
The Android operating system was officially unveiled in November 2007 along with the founding of the Open Handset Alliance ( OHA ); a consortium of AT & T did not have any plans for Android devices yet at all.
After initially making smartphones based mostly on Windows Mobile, HTC became a co-founding member of the Open Handset Alliance, a group of handset manufacturers and mobile network operators dedicated to the development of the Android mobile operating system.