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Handmark and Samsung made an agreement under which Handmark will support the Korean company’s brand new Bada platform. In other words, we’ll have tons of apps Handmark has made for various media companies available via Samsung Apps.
The first app that will be ported to Bada is the London Evening Standard app, which will be launched later this month, with Thompson Reuters, Goal.com and others to follow.
In addition to Bada, Handmark also supports other popular smartphone platforms, including the iPhone, BlackBerry, Android, webOS, Symbian S60 and Windows Mobile.
Current Bada smartphone portfolio consists of three phones only – Samsung Wave, Wave 2 and Wave 2 Pro.
Handmark is on board and that’s good for the prospects of the Bada platform. However, Samsung also needs other major developers on board — these days users want Skype, Foursquare, Evernote and many other apps and games on their smartphones, and without those included in the Samsung Apps catalog I can’t see the prospects of Bada…
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Dusan Belic
Dusan has been using smartphones since their introduction and is now following the latest trends in the industry. The "convergence" is what he's most excited about, and writing about it is the next logical thing to do. He thinks that using a smartphone is what everyone who cares about their time should do. In addition to his interests in mobile phones, Dusan also loves to experiment with the latest web and mobile 2.0 services. The idea of accessing and managing your information from any device no matter where you are simply amazes him. Whether it's an online to-do list, note taking service or a video sharing social network, he's there to try it out. He admits though, he's still searching for the ultimate web-based organizational tool, which "sings" perfectly with the mobile PIM application. Dusan used to run SymbianWatch.com which later became part of IntoMobile. He lives in Serbia, South-East Europe, from where he edits the site on a daily basis.
