Archive for: bada
With the hustle and bustle of CES over the last week, we’ve been pretty out of the loop regarding mainstream tech news. And wouldn’t you know it, something pretty big was revealed — Samsung and Intel are reportedly combining Bada and Tizen. The former is Samsung’s in-house pet project while the latter is Intel’s (which also contains some core pieces of MeeGo).
More importantly, a new API and SDK will eventually make its way into developers’ hands ensuring backwards and forwards compatibility.
While Bada is generally reserved for lower and mid-range hardware, we can’t help but feel a tad excited about Samsung and Intel’s new, joint effort. Too bad there isn’t any firm ETA for when said love child will be completed/released.
Have a Samsung Wave II in your possession as well as a lust for Sammy’s in-house Bada OS? Why not install the newly leaked Bada 2.0 ROM on it, in turn living dangerously, throwing caution to the wind and likely impressing your friends in the process?
The overall fit & finish on Bada 2.0 makes the OS a much more competent contender to the likes of Android, iOS, etc., etc. We on the other hand, still can’t get over the TouchWhiz-like homescreen which seriously looks like Samsung hired PlaySkool to handle UI design. But hey, to each his own. Hop past the break for two handy walk-through videos and the DL link should you choose to live life on the edge…
- December 12, 2010 9:47 am
Samsung Bada developers have some new development goodies to play with this morning. Samsung has officially launched the Bada OS 1.2 SDK. The latest update comes around three months after the official 1.0 release and brings some much needed updates including OpenGL/ES 1.1 and 1.2 Extension support, the ability to allow apps coded in HTML/JavaScript or Flash SWF to run natively without needing to be converted to C++, as well as support for Wi-Fi EAP.
However, the biggest news with the update revolves around enhanced device support. Specifically, the newest Wave 575 and Wave II can now join the Bada party.
The addition of Open GL/ES should help the Bada OS gaming scene, as it currently is the technology that powers some of the best iOS and Android games.
Bada OS developers can get the latest 1.2 SDK right over here.
- February 17, 2010 6:16 am
The processor everyone wants right now is Snapdragon. With meager power requirements considering it’s 1+GHz speeds, it’s not hard to see why. So far, the more prominent phones to have received the speedy chip have been the WinMo powered Touch HD 2 and the N1. Both equally fast phones for sure. But Samsung’s recently announced “Wave” smartphone could put them all to shame, not necessarily raw CPU speeds considered, but buy graphics performance.
In the image above, you can see the CPU and GPU specs of the Samsung Wave. What’s odd is that they put a pretty fair amount of focus on the Snapdragon CPU, yet left out the little tidbit concerning the phone’s 89 million Triangle/s GPU performance. If you’re keep track, that’s considerably more than pretty much every other Snapdragon powered device today, with “the rest” averaging around 22 million triangles per second. The only other mobile chip that comes close is Nvidia’s Tegra 2 (85-90 million Triangles/s) which was also still fresh, announced at CES last month.
Why keep such an important spec on the down low when mobile phones are already taking after their desktop counterparts and realizing the CPU isn’t everything? It’s a combination of factors, though a big, beefy GPU does wonders for a gadget’s performance.
The only question is now, after seeing Bada in numerous videos and spec sheets galore, can it actually handle all of that hardware power?
GearLog
- February 14, 2010 10:02 pm
When we generally think of lust worthy phones here in the states, the usual names who come up in discussion are from the likes of HTC, Sony, RIM, and as of late, Motorola. Another lesser known name here in the states (by the mass public anyway) is Samsung. We geeks know them pretty well for building a pretty damn good handset every now and then — far from the mass market producers however (ex: HTC). With MWC in getting into full swing, a lot of people have been talking about the new Samsung Wave handset with the companies new “Bada OS” and full list of hardware goodies that are enough to make any gadget junkie smirk from ear to ear. While Bada is indeed pretty nifty and note worthy, it still isn’t a full on “smartphone” OS. For that higher-end feature set, we’ll need to look towards another handset that Samsung “announced” today not in the spoken word, but the written.
Similar in physical appearance to the Samsung Wave, the i8520′s big difference is that it looks to be packing Android. Ok, I say “look” because the “i” prefix on the name/numbering scheme has so far signaled that the OHA OS is indeed on board. Why would Samsung start switching up prefixes and meanings now? That’s what we thought. Besides the familiar OS, the other big star of the show is the 3.7″ “Super” AMOLED display. One look at the picture below showing a normal AMOLED display on the N1 compared to the i8520′s super variant is enough to make a believer out of me. Rounding out the rest of the interesting stuff is an 8mp camera w/ flash and auto-focus and secondary front facing VGA camera.
From what you’ve seen of Samsung’s “Bada” so far, what’s your take? Even though I suspect a good chunk of you readers border on “power users”, has Bada’s somewhat fresh face and slightly different approach to mobile computing intrigued you enough to leave your current platform of choice? Or is the i8520 where it’s at for ya? Now we just have to collectively cross our fingers that the i8520 comes stateside in some flavor or another.
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Phandroid
- December 17, 2009 8:40 am
Best choice of words for a title? Eh, debatable. But it’s not relevant. What is relevant however are screenshots of Samsung’s new in-house Bada OS. When you see the pictures above, what impressions do you get? I’ll admit that it’s actually pretty nice looking. Much better than Symbian’s refresh so far. But such things are best being left for judgement by the actual end user (read: you). So go ahead and give it a through ocular shakedown. After which, continuing the path downwards to the nicely organized boxes below. Spill your guts below.
IntoMobile
- November 13, 2009 5:54 am
Contrary to what we reported earlier, it seems Samsung is not going to go Bada only. The slip up comes after Samsung made a very compelling announcement that Bada was more or less to take over with them phasing out other OS’s. Either I misunderstood that, the site I pulled it from misquoted him, or those running the show are a little confused. Whatever the cause, Samsung is not dumping Symbian. Instead, the company has issued another statement saying that Symbian and Samsung are just find. Samsung is one of the original members of the Symbian Foundation and as such is not giving up on the lagging OS anytime soon.
A multi-OS approach is awesome for end users. I mean with at least 3-4 different choices of who gets to run the boat, we have tons of customization options. Devs on the other hand have a mild headache on them if they want to support all four platforms. But then again, you at least have a choice.
Pocket-Lint
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- November 11, 2009 9:45 am
Fresh off yesterdays news regarding Samsung’s new, in-house OS called “Bada”, Samsung has announced further information regarding mobile OS’s. To put it bluntly: Samsung and Symbian are done. Over. Ca put. I’m not surprised really. With Nokia showcasing Maemo which is light years ahead of the rickety ship that is Symbain and no worthwhile evolutionary changes in the pipeline, it only seems natural (and financially smart) to dump Symbian. Samsung isn’t going cold turkey however as they plan to start phasing out Symbain…now…with the last Symbain devices crawling through the graveyard in 2010.
From 2010 on (after Symbian gets dropped), all OS’s on Samsung devices will be of the Bada variant. It’ll be interesting to see how (1) Android evolves on Samsung devices or if it too will be dropped and (2) how mobile developers will react to another platform to put forth resources. Any thoughts?
**Update: Yaa….that’s not quite how it’s going down. Samsung has changed course or a misunderstanding floated through the pipelines. Find out the real deal right over here…
Electronista
- November 10, 2009 8:06 am
If you thought the mobile OS wars had chosen their sides and alliances already, you’ve got another thing comin’. Samsung has announced that this December, they will be releasing their new in-house OS called “Bada” (meaning “Ocean” in Korean). This new OS will come with it’s own SDK so that developers can get right on making Bada all that Samsung hopes it can become. If you’re asking yourself if we really need another OS go sit in the corner fora few minutes. Of course we do. Further splitting apart the market and creating more headaches for devs looking to support more than one platform aside, end users presented with another choice is always a good thing. Bada will supposedly be replacing Symbian and WinMo in their product lineup though no mention of Samsung + Android devices was detailed. Also MIA are any screenshots or teaser pictures to get us excited. I can understand keeping it a secret and building hype, but I’m sure most of us would just rather see an early pic. Hey, let’s not forget that attempts to drum up hype often end badly. I’m eager to see what Samsung has been working on. I just hope it isn’t released with a press release full of fluffed up wording and under-performing substance. Wow us Samsung. Do not disappoint.
Unwired
