Samsung’s senior vice president of product strategy, Juha Park has confirmed that they’ll continue to invest “significantly” in its homegrown bada OS. According to Park, Samsung believes bada “is a good platform to build on” with products ranging from high-end to entry-level segment. Samsung’s current top-end bada device is Wave 3 that runs on […]
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WSJ: Samsung to make bada open-source
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 […]
Apparent bada 2.01 screenshots leaked
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 […]
Bada 2.0 slated to come around July
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 […]
Samsung wants Symbian devs to develop for bada
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 […]