Android Cool

Google has released the names and company affiliations of the 116 judges who helped narrow down the 1,788 Android applications into 50 semifinalist winners. About 18% of the judges were from Google while the rest made up experts from various handset makers, carriers, chip makers and other hi tech areas.

Now here is the part where I gossip like a teenager: Verizon totally wasn’t invited to judge. Verizon has chosen the LiMo Foundation to supply Linux based OS systems so there is clearly bad blood between the two. AT&T wasn’t a judge because it is not part of Google’s open alliance. Companies after the jump.

AKM
Aplix
Ascender
ASUS
Atheros
Broadcom
China Mobile (CHL)
Esmertec
Google
HTC
KDDI
LGE
Livingimage
Marvell
Motorola (MOT)
Noser
NTT DoCoMo
NVidia (NVDA)
Open Source Community Members
PacketVideo
Qualcomm (QCOM)
Samsung
SiRF
SkyPop
SonyVox
Sprint
TAT
Telefonica
TI
T-Mobile Europe
T-Mobile US
Toshiba
Wind River