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  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 [...]

  Samsung has just released the final version of bada 1.2 SDK. The bada 1.2 SDK will allow developers to create apps for all Wave devices – Wave, Wave 525, Wave 533, Wave 575, and Wave 723 and Wave II. Some of the new features remain the same from the last beta like apps created [...]

  Samsung has just released a new beta SDK of its bada OS’ for download. The bada SDK 1.2.0b1 will not only allow developers to develop on all Wave devices (Wave, Wave 525, Wave 533, Wave 575, Wave 723 and Wave II) but will also add some new features like apps created from HTML/JavaScript or [...]

  Samsung will conduct a bada Developer Day in South Korea to celebrate the first anniversary of bada OS. A total of 400 developers from Korea and other countries can attend the developer day in Seoul where they can get an overview of the bada roadmap, session on how to migrate to bada v1.2 and [...]

  We managed to get our hands on Samsung’s latest bada device, Wave 525. Wave 525, unlike its elder sibling – S8500 targets the lower segment of the market by giving users the benefits of bada OS at an affordable price tag. Don’t be surprised if at the first glance you take the handset as [...]

  Samsung has released the final SDK version of bada 1.1.0. The SDK 1.1.0 has been created specially for new bada devices like Wave 525, 533, 575 and 723. The SDK brings in some new features like automatic resolution scaling of apps from WVGA to WQVGA, test framework allowing unit and stress testing and more. [...]

  Samsung has announced its latest Wave device for the Russian market. The Wave II (GT-S8530) is similar to the original Wave but it runs on the latest bada 1.2 and adds a larger 3.7-inch screen. While we’re not aware of the full changes of bada 1.2, Samsung has confirmed that the updated OS will [...]

  Samsung has dropped a new beta version of bada SDK. It’s the first beta of v1.1, which bada developers can now get from the Developer site. The download is about 356MB and has brought many changes like auto-scaling of the UI to support different screen resolutions, HTTP streaming and more. More info can be [...]

  Want some keyboard tracing goodness on your good ol’ Wave (S8500)? Well, a forum poster at Samsungfirmwareworld has posted a leaked build of bada OS 1.2 (S8500XXJID) meant for S8500 that brings continuous typing input. Users at the forum claim that the build features Swype but we reckon it could be Nuance’s T9 Trace, [...]

  We speculated if bada phone will be there at MWC or not and it seems bada’s official blog has let the cat out of the bag. The blog post has confirmed of a bada smartphone along with the new TouchWiz UX. Not sure how the new user interface will look or function but Samsung [...]