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  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 [...]

  South Korea ministry today announced that they’ll develop their own open-source smartphone OS to give local smartphone makers “competitiveness” against foreign smartphone OS makers. The details on how and what the OS will be are unknown but the Korean ministry said such a move will help manufacturers like Samsung, LG to compete against Apple’s [...]

  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. [...]

  Samsung’s Mobile Innovator just sent another email reminding us that they’ll officially stop supporting the Symbian platform after tomorrow. The Symbian Lab for developers was closed in October whereas the Symbian forum and content related to the OS will be removed today and tomorrow respectively. Samsung hasn’t confirmed if they’ll support Symbian in the [...]

  Well it was moments ago we posted about Samsung’s uncertainty for Galaxy S’ Gingerbread update but it seems Galaxy S users will eventually get it. Samsung Mobile India’s official twitter account has confirmed that Gingerbread (not gingerbeard!) will arrive for Galaxy S. However the confirmation does not divulge the exact timeframe. Twitter Account Via

  Samsung has confirmed to Reuters that they’re developing a joint software platform that will be compatible with both TV and mobile phones. Kyungsik Kevin Lee, vice president at Samsung’s Visual Display Division said they’ve plans “to have a single platform for Samsung TV and phones.” Lee hasn’t shed any more details on it except [...]

  If you had any doubts in Samsung’s decision to drop Symbian, well, its Mobile Innovators site for developers have made it official. In an email sent by Samsung Mobile Innovators states that all Symbian-related support on its site will be removed by end of this year. Samsung’s Symbian Lab.dev will be closed down on [...]

  Looks like Samsung is temporarily dropping Symbian from its multi-OS strategy. Claiming “no visible demand for Symbian,” YH Lee, head of marketing at Samsung Mobile confirmed that they have not planned any Symbian devices for now but will launch if they see some consumer demand. Meanwhile, Samsung also made it clear that they’re being [...]

  UPDATE: The v1.0.0b3 now supports Chinese Simplified, Chinese Traditional (Hong Kong), Chinese Traditional (Taiwan) languages. Language support for Arabic, Farsi, Hebrew, Indonesian, Malay, Thai, Urdu and Vietnamese will be added soon. Samsung has just updated the bada SDK for all developers. The SDK, still in beta, now stands at 1.0.0b3 and contains features like: [...]

  As promised, the site that originally leaked info on the LiMo-powered I8330 H2 has published some pictures of the same. There’s not much on the design front, just a little facelift with a different placement of the camera at the back but the interesting thing is the specs, which are powerful enough to pip [...]