To rival Android, Linux operating systems, Samsung Electronics, the electronic giant has announced its own open mobile operating system called as bada, which means “ocean” in Korean. It is designed for use in Smartphones and will enable rich user experience in various applications. The new operating system will be launched in December this year, when its SDK (Software Development Kit) is planned to be made available. The company predicts that bada-powered devices will become a major thrust in the market in 2010.
Bada operating system
Samsung announced the bada operating system on 10 November, 2009, and the company expects that the first mobile phone based on the operating system will be displayed in the first half of 2010, and will be available to consumers in the second half of 2010. It is reported that the company also plans to introduce a “bada application store.” However, Samsung is already selling Smartphones running on Microsoft’s Windows Mobile and Google’s Android operating system.
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Check out the screenshot of the upcoming Samsung bada OS that will target cellphones. Basically, it looks more or less like an adaption of the company’s current TouchWiz UI, and will be an open platform similar to Android and LiMo in order to empower developers to tweak and modify attributes of the software design. You will need to make sure your handset has a minimum 800 x 480 resolution display though to get full use out of the bada OS, while multi-touch gestures are supported to keep pace with Apple’s iPhone OS. Are you excited yet?
Korean giant Samsung claims that 42 percent of phone users worldwide will pay to download applications. That’s ahead of the launch of its Bada platform.
Bada is Samsung’s “open” mobile platform and the firm said the survey showed that 54 percent of the people it surveyed will pay up to $8 for each application downloaded.
The most popular applications, according to the survey, are travel and navigation applications, photography, work and shopping.
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Samsung at an event today provided some early feature details of its bada mobile platform ahead of its actual SDK release. Every phone will have a relatively high specification with a multi-touch wide VGA (roughly 800×480) screen as a minimum for its interface. They will also have to have at least 3G, GPS and Wi-Fi as part of the feature set.
The software will have its own interface but can also accept layers; the first bada phone from Samsung should run TouchWiz 3.0, an as-yet unreleased variant of its custom interface also found on Windows Mobile phones like the Omnia II. It should support extra features like fine-grained vibration control as well as face detection and general activity sensors. As an open design, it will give developers access down to the contact and phone services.
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Today Samsung held a launch event in London, England for their brand new Bada mobile operating system platform. If you want to know all the details of Samung Bada then you’re both in luck and out of luck. I would explain myself but Eric Zemen from Information Week has already done a pretty brilliant job:
To call today’s event a waste of time would be an understatement. Bada was first announced by Samsung last month. Bada is going to be Samsung’s new feature phone platform, and promises to deliver the smartphone experience to non-smartphone devices. Today’s audience hoped to learn more, as this was to be the official launch of the new mobile operating system. Only there was no launch.
Sure, lets of guys with fancy title got up and talk, but I didn’t learn anything new. Not only did I not learn anything new, Samsung didn’t have any demos, any phones, or even any screen shots of what the new OS will look like and how it performs. Instead, we were blasted with buzzword after buzzword after flowery statement after flowery statement.
Samsung shared nothing real. (OK, they did say that Bada will have a Flash-based UI, is compatible with C++, and will become the next generation of its TouchWiz user interface.) But that’s it.
After making a lot of promises, Samsung trotted out some of its committed developer partners. My favorite was the head of Twitter’s mobile business. He got up, introduced himself, and said “we’re excited about the opportunities that Bada presents” and then he left. Samsung flew him half way around the world for that?
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Samsung had earlier announced their Bada OS which we reported on. The new Bada OS is expected to be Samsung’s first choice and is expected to replace the Windows Mobile and Symbian OSes that Samsung mobiles currently use.
This is Samsung’s own OS and hence it makes it easier for development and incorporation into devices. Now reports say that Samsung is set to announce a phone which runs on Bada OS by the 1st Quarter of 2010. Announcement in 1st Quarter means availability by 2nd Quarter.
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Samsung may be sponsoring the Enlightenment window manager project and Enlightenment may be a component in Samsung’s bada mobile operating system. The Enlightenment project, which has been around since 1997, announced today that it was working with a “top-tier electronics maker” which “produces millions of mobile phones, televisions, sound systems and more”.
The announcement said that this vendor was actively sponsoring the development of Enlightenment and that one of the results of this development would be a version of Enlightenment tuned for use on a small screen with touch control. Screen sizes of 240 by 320 to 800 by 480 are discussed for the target devices. Phoronix has examined the change logs for the Enlightenment project and found that Samsung Electronics has recently committed code to the project. Samsung’s LGPL3 licensed contribution, Editje, is a graphical editor for edje files, used to lay out skinnable Enlightenment applications.
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Yet another smartphone OS, Bada! Do we really need another smartphone OS? Samsung thinks so… its new Bada OS will debut next month, with the first handsets and Bada app store due by min-2010.
Samsung is shuffling the cards in its smartphone deck and adding its own operating system to the current line-up of Android, Windows Mobile and Symbian devices.
Named Bada – Korean for ‘ocean’ – the OS is believed to be based on Linux. But while Samsung trumpets Bada as an ‘open platform’ this doesn’t necessarily mean ‘open source’.
Bada is intended to reach down into lower-end ‘feature phones’ as well as smartphones, and may replace Samsung’s proprietary OS on those devices. It’s also speculated that once Bada takes off, Samsung will ditch Windows Mobile and Symbian for the home-grown OS.
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Bada, the new open source platform of Samsung had been launched some days ago. This new open source platform is expected to give the better competence to the company’s rival such as iPhone and other Android handset.
Bada is set release in Q1 next year. Currently there is no much info can be found about this new platform. However some things are known like it sports the intuitive touch screen based user interface. The other is that Bada will take the most part of Symbian S60 devices manufactured by this Korean giant company.
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