Samsung Preparing its Own Mobile OS: “Bada”
Samsung Preparing its Own Mobile OS: “Bada”
Posted 11/10/2009 at 3:50pm
| by Jason Barry
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Samsung announced today that it would throw its hat into the mobile OS's ring with “Bada.” Samsung’s new OS name is based on the Korean word for “ocean” and will support fully open standards.
Samsung was skimpy on the details, but it sounds very similar to the iPhone and Android operating systems. It will feature a central application store and provide developers with a framework to build applications for the device. In stark contrast to the iPhone, Samsung claims that every aspect of the OS will be customizable, including dialer, contacts and other built in utilities.
Samsung anticipates the first “Bada” powered device to be released in the first half of 2010 along with the application store. Adding another OS into the mix might make gaining market share difficult against Google and Apple. However, this likely means Samsung won’t be sporting a new Windows Mobile OS.
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Khaled
November 16, 2009 at 9:44pm
Samsung was the only company I know that released a phone for almost every pda/phone os out there: symbian, palm, pocket pc, ms smartphone, etc.
Why don't they just use android?
Stinky Fartface
November 11, 2009 at 11:13am
While the Bada Bing! reference seems obvious, why would they creat a new mobile OS to compete with Windows Mobile if it were based on search through Bing? Confusing.
Also, their marketing team should be fired for naming something that could be pronounced BAD A. Maybe they though 'Bad Ass' but I doubt it.
Founck
November 11, 2009 at 2:59am
I hope that everyone that uses this OS will use the Bing! search engine.
CloudRider
November 10, 2009 at 5:53pm
Perfect phone for us Canadians! If the phone crashes, we just bring it back up and run an MSN search! Fixed faster than you can say,
Eh, Bada Boom, Bada Bing!
nekollx
November 10, 2009 at 4:52pm
New Bada OS from Samsung
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grieserl
November 10, 2009 at 4:21pm
Another OS?
How many are we going to have to choose from!?!
With Iphone, Web OS, Android, and windows mobile out there, how many more are coming?
I know this is capitalisticaly (is that a word?) impossible, but why cant we have a single or two os's,
so we can have universal apps and such?
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