Thoughts from a Bafta nominated Podcaster, Blogger, Writer and Commentator.
I get the feeling that Samsung aren’t considering an open source path for Bada to try to get other manufacturers to use it, but more as a great big red flag to the rest of the industry that they are a serious company and not some OEM ready to licence whatever the flavour of the month is.
Samsung are going to buy WebOS? Oh come on, pull the other one. The name of the game in the smartphone space is one of perception. It’s not enough to be the best operating system when geeks do a double blind test of the underlying code and SDK capabilities, the market needs to emotionally belive that you are the best (which, imo, is one of the reasons Symbian is where it is now). So remind me why a failed operating system, with minimal developer support and not one hardware success that could even be counted as a triple, let alone a
Bada 2.0 will pack some major updates, including support for multi-tasking, Wi-Fi Direct file sharing, near-field communication and voice recognition. The platform will have improved support for Flash and HTML5, and Samsung plans to introduce in-app advertising in a bid to make Bada more attractive to the developer community. The Korean manufacturer aims to introduce three Wave smartphones running Bada 2.0 later this year… it is unsurprising that the firm will launch mid-range and high-end models in these regions. Oh yes, Samsung are more than happy with Google/Motorola and what’s going on in the world of Android…
