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Samsung calls Symbian developers to join the bada community

Categories: bada, Developer, Samsung, Symbian
By: , IntoMobile
Friday, March 11th, 2011 at 1:39 AM

Samsung is betting placing a bet on the frustration of Symbian developers disagreeing with Nokia’s decision to embrace Windows Phone 7. Hence they’ve sent an email to a group of India-based mobile developers who showed up at Sammy’s recent developer conference in the country. Here’s what it [email] says:

If you are a Symbian developer unhappy about Nokia’s recent announcements, and are hence looking for a new platform to showcase your talents, we say “Hello!” and “Welcome to bada!” If you’re new to the bada development, or are moving your app from Symbian, we’d like to welcome you with the ‘Quick guide to bada development’. In about 15 minutes, you can learn how to build your first bada app!

Neat strategy, but will it work? I’m in the group of people who doubt the prospects of Samsung’s home-made platform. As a matter of fact, I think Samsung itself is not that confident on bada’s future since they also support Android and Windows Phone 7… What do you think?

[Via: SamsungHub]

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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.

  • http://twitter.com/perfectweiss Samuel Francisco

    Bada is not yet mature at this point, but it do holds a great potential. I sometimes compare the performance of my girlfriend’s Samsung Wave (running on Bada v1.2) against my Samsung Galaxy S (running on Android v2.2) and usually finds Bada to be a bit sleeker.

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    Nokia should have partnered both Android and WP7 and see what works. IF HTC can do it why not Nokia?

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