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  Valentine’s Day maybe a week away but Samsung has decided to celebrate the day a week before and after by giving away a bunch of paid apps for free to its users. Samsung is gifting its bada or Android users with free paid apps till February 21 and also a chance to win a [...]

  Samsung has updated the bada SDK to v 2.0.4. Samsung has now fixed the packaging error that use the Ads library and allows badaIDE packaged apps to run through TestKit properly. Developers can download the updated bada SDK from the developers site below. Download Page

  Samsung will merge its home-grown bada OS with Tizen OS, an executive has confirmed. In an interview with Forbes, Tae-Jin Kang, Senior Vice President of Samsung’s Contents Planning Team confirmed that they’ll merge both the operating systems. Kang refrained from giving an exact timeline but said the work is “already underway” and will support [...]

TomTom has entered in to a strategic deal with Samsung. Samsung will use TomTom maps and location content on their Wave 3 smartphone. TomTom will provide information to support daily location needs of Wave3 users, from navigation to search and find. With this agreement, Samsung has now access to TomTom global maps and premium location [...]

  Looks like the bada 2.0 update will be available in next year, at least to bada users in Turkey. According to a post by Samsung Turkey on its Facebook page, the new bada OS will be available to Turkey Wave I, Wave II, Wave 723, Wave 578 and Wave 575 users in 2012, which [...]

  Samsung has released a new SDK version for its bada OS. Available for download via bada Developers page, the bada v2.0.3 SDK improves existing and adds few new features. The WQVGA resolution support has now gone from beta to final in the new SDK, additional language support for voice functions, test kit support that [...]

  Samsung has finally launched their flagship bada 2.0 phone and will be available first in France, which is bada’s biggest market. First shown at the IFA early this year, Wave 3 runs bada 2.0 OS and ups the hardware specs a little compared to the previous Wave flagship devices. The 9.9mm thick Wave 3 [...]

  Samsung today pushed a new bada SDK update for developers. Version 2.0.2 brings in some handy additions like the support for devices with WQVGA and ad library that will allow devs to use in-app ads. Samsung has also opened its System privileged API groups that was closed to a few select developers previously. bada [...]

  bada’s project head, Justin Hong confirmed in a tweet that they’ve started working on the next version of bada aka bada 3.0. He also notes the team is in the “last phase of bada 2.0 device development,” which means the roll out for bada 2.0 for existing devices could start anytime soon. Samsung had [...]

  It’s a known fact that Samsung is one of the key members of the LiMo Foundation and in the past, have dabbled with few devices running LiMo OS. Now the news comes from LiMo and Linux Foundation that they have come together to develop a new open-source OS called Tizen. Tizen will be an [...]