Google is getting concerned about Samsung’s dominance in the Android handset scene, according to a report Monday from the Wall Street Journal. Google is allegedly meeting with other companies to work together and help them become more competitive against the runaway Samsung. Samsung currently owns Android phone sales in nearly every important metric, including unit shipments and profitability.

The WSJ noted that Google’s senior VP of mobile and digital content, Andy Rubin, stated last fall that Google and Samsung’s union had obviously been fruitful, but the company could become a concern if it gained much more footing in sales. Google’s specific concern, according to the WSJ, is that Samsung “has become so big… that it could flex its muscle to renegotiate their arrangement and eat into Google’s lucrative mobile ad business.”

A renegotiation could also afford Samsung perks like earlier access to new versions of Android. It could give Samsung more weight to throw around in creating partnership devices with Google, such that it doesn't feel the need to compromise and then later one-up itself, as happened with the Galaxy Nexus and then Galaxy S III.

Samsung has the largest market share in the smartphone scene, with 32 percent in the third quarter of 2012 to Apple’s 15.5 percent. Samsung’s shipments dwarf all others’, with 55.5 million phones shipped in the same quarter to Apple’s 26.9 million.

Google is reportedly trying to drum up competition for Samsung in the form of Motorola’s X Phone, which would also directly benefit Google as the owner of Motorola. HTC seems to have dropped its predilection for scattershot releases of handsets barely distinguishable to the untrained eye in favor of the One True Flagship Phone, such as the new HTC One released this month. The WSJ states that Google hopes HP will get back into the smartphone game on the Android side.

Samsung doesn’t seem shy about pulling away from Google, either. The company has plans to release a handful of phones running the Tizen OS in 2013 in the East and may bring them around to the West if they’re a hit.