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We’ve heard it all before, except that this time it’s actually happening. Samsung will integrate its Bada OS into Tizen, the platform that emerged from Nokia and Intel’s MeeGo efforts. Korean Yonhap reports comments from Samsung’s president of Media Solutions Center, Hong Won-pyo, who said that (elements of) Bada OS will be integrated in the…
While everyone talks about Jelly Beans these days, some folks are trying to get Ice Cream Sandwich working on non-Android phones. Take Samsung Wave for instance. It’s a pretty powerful device that rocks a 1GHz processor. Sure, it’s a single-core CPU and it’s not exactly the latest generation one, but it’s still fast enough. Its…
Samsung won’t give up on Bada, no matter what the world think of it. Quite the contrary, the Korean giant plans to “significantly” increase its investment in its own mobile OS and pitch it as an alternative to Android. According to Sammy’s Juha Park (senior vice president of product strategy), Bada is a “good platform…
NAVIGON had few important announcements ready for the Mobile World Congress, with its iOS and Android apps getting important updates. The iPhone version of the application will introduce the Google Street View feature later this Spring, providing users with a street-level image of their destination before starting a route. As for the Android app, it…
Samsung is using Valentine’s Day to share some love, offering a number of apps and games for free to its bada and Android users. At the same time, the Korean company wants to promote its own app store, Samsung Apps, since that’s the place you’ll have to visit in order to take advantage of this…
Samsung is yet again releasing “La Fleur” edition of one of its phones. This it’s the Bada-powered Wave Y which is getting a wine red battery cover adorned with flowery design. Aside from a slightly changed phone design and the new UI theme, the rest of the specs are (as it’s usually the case) unchanged.…
All those iOS and Android users are not enough for Taptu – they are now going for the select Bada users as well, namely folks with Samsung Wave M and Wave 3 smartphones. As far as I know this is the first time a decent social news reader is launching on Sammy’s proprietary platform and…
Samsung has entered into a strategic partnership with TomTom to offer the company’s maps and location content on the Bada-based Wave 3 smartphone. Under the deal, TomTom will provide information to support location needs of Samsung Wave 3 users, including maps for over 200 countries globally, providing over 35 million kilometers of road network, points…
Rovio has released Angry Birds for Samsung Wave III with other Bada OS-based devices most likely getting the popular game as soon as the Korean company releases Bada 2.0 update (or so we think) for other Wave phones. Available as a free download, Angry Birds effectively made Wave III (or that’s Wave 3) slightly more…
Not all Samsung Wave phones will get the bada 2.0 update. The two models that are not in the “lucky group” (of devices that will get the update) are Wave 525 and Wave 533, both of which are stuck on the version 1.1. However, not all is gloom and doom, with Korean giant preparing the…