Just as promised, today Samsung showed the world their new smartphone operating system called Bada. At an event, held in London, the Korean company revealed the first details about the upcoming platform and gave the start to the developers challenge that should create a good application base for the future Bada users.
The Bada OS is based around on Samsung proprietary TouchWiz User Interface – in fact the design mockups they’ve presented at the event were pretty much similar to the Samsung Pixon12 UI.
Designed for use on full-touch handsets only, Bada OS should help create “a smartphone for everyone” and increase the market share of the smartphones up to 50 percent.
Being a fully-fledged smartphone platform though, Bada will allow developers to tap into the various mobile phone features and sensors – Flash UI, web control, motion sensing, vibration control, face detection, weather, proximity, and other activity sensors. Obviously developers should have no problems developing immersive and interactive applications.
Samsung have highlighted the various service-centric features as the Bada OS differentiator. Those would location-based social networking services, device synchronization, content management, location-based services, and e-commerce services – all supported by back-end Bada servers.
As you’ll see from the 4-minute presentation video below, at this point Samsung are reaching mainly towards developers, not cellphone users. Samsung are hoping that getting the developers support will get a head start for their new OS. They’ve setup a dedicated Bada developers website and have already put up the Bada SDK for download.
Just as promised, today Samsung showed the world their new smartphone operating system called Bada. At an event, held in London, the Korean company revealed the first details about the upcoming platform and gave the start to the developers challenge that should create a good application base for the future Bada users.
The Bada OS is based around on Samsung proprietary TouchWiz User Interface – in fact the design mockups they’ve presented at the event were pretty much similar to the Samsung Pixon12 UI.
Designed for use on full-touch handsets only, Bada OS should help create “a smartphone for everyone” and increase the market share of the smartphones up to 50 percent.
Being a fully-fledged smartphone platform though, Bada will allow developers to tap into the various mobile phone features and sensors – Flash UI, web control, motion sensing, vibration control, face detection, weather, proximity, and other activity sensors. Obviously developers should have no problems developing immersive and interactive applications.
Samsung have highlighted the various service-centric features as the Bada OS differentiator. Those would location-based social networking services, device synchronization, content management, location-based services, and e-commerce services – all supported by back-end Bada servers.
As you’ll see from the 4-minute presentation video below, at this point Samsung are reaching mainly towards developers, not cellphone users. Samsung are hoping that getting the developers support will get a head start for their new OS. They’ve setup a dedicated Bada developers websiteand have already put up the Bada SDK for download.
