Fourteen of the world’s largest mobile phone and chip makers, including Sony Ericsson, Vodafone Group Plc and ARM Holdings Plc , joined the Open Handset Alliance on Tuesday to support the Android mobile device platform developed by Google Inc. The new members’ pledge to back the Android software is a significant feat for Google in the mobile phone industry, as its T-Mobile G1 phone takes on rival Apple Inc’spopular iPhone 3G.

But despite the big-name additions to the Open Handset Alliance, analysts say what matters is whether the new members introduce more Android-supported smartphones in 2009 and 2010 to edge out competitors who also use open-source Linux software for mobile phones, such as Nokia-owned smartphone software maker Symbian.

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