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  Yesterday, a Digitimes report claimed Samsung dropping Symbian from its mobile portfolio and today we’ve got a different word straight from Samsung’s HQ. Samsung says the report is not in line with their smartphone strategy and will continue to build Symbian phones. Samsung is an initial member of Symbian Foundation and continues to cooperate [...]

  In an attempt to thwart iPhone’s possible penetration in South Korea, SKT plans to release an Android phone. SKT is reportedly in talks with Samsung (and LG) to provide them with an Android device running the v2.0 Eclair update. SKT reckons Android-powered phones provide better data processing than iPhone. “We are gauging the timing [...]

  Symbian phones were always a minority in Samsung’s portfolio and it looks like they’ll give it a complete miss by next year. Senior VP, Don Joo Lee confirmed that Samsung will quit making Symbian handsets and instead adopt its own Bada OS that was unveiled yesterday. Though, Samsung will continue making WinMo and Android [...]

  Samsung announced to launch a new open mobile platform in December. Dubbed as Bada, the name signifies “ocean” in Korean which conveys the unlimited potential of the new platform. The new OS is aimed at developers as well as mobile operators because of the easy creation and customization of applications. As for consumers, Samsung [...]

Despite being the second largest handset manufacturer, Samsung does not have phones based on its own OS, until now. Dong-hoon Chan, head of mobile devices design group at Samsung confirmed recently that Samsung is developing its own OS based on Linux platform. We’ve also managed to gather some more info. With no OS in their [...]