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  Samsung is close to reach 10 million bada-powered handsets and if the latest piece by Wall Street Journal holds any water, bada’s up take could increase significantly by next year. According to the WSJ report, Samsung is planning to open-source bada next year. This will fulfill two objectives – it will reduce the reliance [...]

  A user over at XDA forums has released some pictures of what is claimed to be an early version of bada 2.0. As you can see from the image, Wave II (S8530) runs the bada 2.01 and comes with some revamped menu icons. The presence of Music Hub icon indicates that Samsung will add [...]

  Samsung is looking to launch bada 2.0 around July, at least in India. Financial Express has published an article on bada where Samsung has shared some interesting insights about the OS. According to a Samsung exec, Dipesh Shah Samsung India is targeting smartphone market share of around 30 percent this calendar year from the [...]

UPDATE: Samsung contacted us with the following statement. We are delighted with the success of the original bada platform, which was launched at MWC last year. We have looked to build on this with bada 2.0 by creating a versatile and robust platform capable of continuing the success of its predecessor. We have also created [...]

  As expected, Samsung has shown off the next major update of bada OS to developers at Mobile World Congress. Going forward in 2011 we can expect Samsung to launch devices with bada 2.0 and bring in some interesting features. Some new features in bada 2.0 are multitasking, push notification messages, NFC support, Wi-Fi Direct, [...]

  UPDATE: Full specs below. Samsung has expanded its bada-powered Wave family with the latest addition of Wave 578 (GT-S5780). The new Wave 578 looks to be another mid-range device but comes with the inclusion of a Near Field Communications (NFC) chip. NFC chip allows users to initiate contactless payment as well as other services [...]

  Amidst the Android frenzy expected at the MWC, Samsung has announced that they’ll offer a glimpse of its bada 2.0 OS. The new bada 2.0 OS was confirmed at a developer day in South Korea but this will be the first time Samsung will show the OS in action to all the developers. As [...]

  Samsung has released a new update to bada’s recently released v1.2 SDK. The new v1.2.1 bundles an error checker to check potential errors that could occur during packaging of the app. Another interesting development is the introduction of in-app advertising. Developers can now monetize and earn revenues from their app starting Jan 1, 2011. [...]

  Here’s some good news for original Wave (S8500) users. Samsung bada’s official twitter account has confirmed that they’ll release the bada 1.2 update for Wave and Europeans using unlocked units will be the first ones to receive it in early next year. As for rest of the world, Samsung plans to release the update [...]

  Samsung today announced the winners of the global bada Developer Challenge on the eve of bada OS’ one year anniversary. The challenge that ran from May till December of this year saw 2,077 teams from 54 different countries competing with each other. Amongst all the applications submitted, Samsung selected only 34 apps from devs [...]