Samsung Bada 2.0 to get multitasking, push notifications, a new UI and more

By on Dec 20, 2010 at 2:23 PM
mobile December 20, 2010

Samsung took some time at a developer day event in South Korea to note that it will have sold 5 million Bada-powered Wave phones when 2010 comes to an end. It also projects sales of more than 10 million Wave devices in the first half of 2011 alone. Most of the attention at the event, however, was focused on the host of features Samsung said it will introduce in version 2 of its in-house mobile operating system. Among the more notable additions making their way to Bada 2.0 are third-party multitasking support, push notification support, an updated UI that will include a “smart home-screen,” enhanced security, an integrated ad network, carrier billing support, HTML5, NFC and speech recognition. Needless to say, Bada 2.0 is set to be a huge update that could put Bada on par with most modern smartphone operating systems when it launches in the first half of 2011. Hit the break for a slide containing all of the noted enhancements we can look forward to in Bada 2.0.

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  • kyle

    lol @ bada.

    no one cares.

    • Anonymous

      It appears they have at least 5 million reasons not to put all their eggs in someone else’s basket.

      • http://twitter.com/livingbasehead Shelton

        5 million phones sold world wide.. lets say out of 2.5 billion people they sold 0.005 billion.. your right they are defiantly on top of their game

      • Anonymous

        So with your logic PBS should be shut down because the other networks have millions more viewers? everything popular is not equal to value you know

      • Anonymous

        Selling 5 million of your own phones gives you significant chips when dealing with MS and Google. This OS is made for the Asian Market which has been the slowest to adopt to smartphones, they are used to cheap budget phones or high end dumbphones.

        And in case you forgot a corporation exists to make money not marketshare. Why do you think the iPhone is not available on Tmo, Sprint, and Vzw…

      • Shanghai Dan

        Then everyone in the phone industry should just quit and bow down to Nokia, who dominates with something like 400 MILLION phones sold each year. Samsung, HTC, Apple, Motorola, LG – just give it up, you sell nothing compared to Nokia…

        Right?

  • Patviv

    Big deal

  • Steve Jobs

    we need bada like we need syphillis

  • http://schultzter.ca Schultzter

    Is there some secret law that says every Linux distro must be duplicated several times? I get that Linux is cool, the framework is there that anyone can use (I’m not getting in to a religious GPL debate), and having your own operating system is very flattering.

    But can’t Samsung, Nokia, and Intel just work on making Android better? I mean, Google could have jumped on the Meego/Maemo bandwagon but they didn’t and now Android is the incumbent. So stop wasting your time competing on the same thing and get together to make sure WinPoo 7 doesn’t gain any traction and iOS 4 doesn’t sit on it’ laurels!!!

    • Anonymous

      If I had the money, expertise, and groundwork to sell 5 million of my own anything I would do it. Samsung does enough to give Google and MS money. Mercedes doesn’t specialize in SUV’s but if they can sell some for a profit why not? If those 5 million people liked Bada over Android they more than likely would not have bought Android if Bada never existed.

      Samsung is big enough to have more than 1 mobile OS. And your thinking from a US point of view, Bada was never intended to appeal to you; thats probably it’s strongest selling point. Bada is the only smartphone OS MADE for Asian countries.

      • Shanghai Dan

        People always ask me why Windows Mobile still has such a big draw in China, and iOS is a non-player; it’s because the OS works natively with a stylus and Hanzi (Chinese characters) in a way that iOS – and even Android, right now – simply cannot match. Bada does the same thing – it’s built from the ground-up to work with non-English character sets, and it does so brilliantly.

        And so does Symbian. It’s why the world’s largest cell phone market (China) is dominated by Symbian, Windows Mobile – and Bada and Android are coming on strong (especially as the latter is relatively open and players like Huawei, ZTE, and Gionee can easily add the Hanzi support they want/need).

        When you even see Apple advertisements in the subway stations, and half the icons still have English words for their labels, you know they simply will not have any significant penetration. To win in Asia, you simply have to have an easy way to switch 100% to a non-English/Western language set.

    • tais

      Too bad bada in its current iteration has nothing to do with Linux.

  • Mgl323

    Samsung Bada? Never heard of it.. I think..

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  • Astropods

    Ahhh, this is why they screw android up so bad….

  • Anonymous

    I say good for Samsung! It’s BEYOND obvious that Bada isn’t meant for “US”. It’s meant for lower income countries where an iPhone is treated like a Gucci wallet. Everyone can’t afford the technology that we’re privledged to easily own. And even if they CAN afford it, it doesn’t mean they desire it like “US”. Just by looking at those specs you can tell their big announcements aren’t targeted towards “US”.

    Multitasking? New UI? Push Notifications? Lawd…a phone over here can miss only 1 out of 3 of those features without everyone calling it a complete failure. Picture a mobile OS missing 2/3 of them…it’s curtains!

    Plus, if 5M people isn’t really easy to achieve….countless products have failed domestically AND internationally and it’s corporations would have gladly wished for just a million units sold!

  • Brad

    So THIS is what’s keeping Samsung from upgrading their Android phones in a timely manner. Great, thanks a bunch Samsung. When are you gonna learn to dump the junky proprietary OS and get fully on board with Android, which is actually a worthy contender in the smartphone OS wars?

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