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Samsung's new smartphone platform
Samsung, evidently feeling that there are not enough Linux-based phone platforms out there, has announced the existence of its "bada" system. "The name 'bada', which means 'ocean' in Korean, was chosen to convey the limitless variety of potential applications which can be created using the new platform. It also alludes to Samsung's commitment to a variety of open platforms in the mobile industry. Samsung bada also represents the fresh challenges and opportunities available to developers, as well as the entertainment which consumers will enjoy once the new platform is open." Some more information can be found on bada.com.
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Samsung's new smartphone platform Posted Nov 10, 2009 17:15 UTC (Tue) by xav (guest, #18536) [Link]
The site is filled with marketing BS, but there's nothing about the technologies used. Between using a custom kernel and alien userspace like Android does, and reusing community components like Moblin/Maemo/Palm, or even reusing FSO, there's a world of difference and of lovability for the platform.
Samsung's new smartphone platform Posted Nov 10, 2009 17:25 UTC (Tue) by juliank (subscriber, #45896) [Link]
Is there any mention of Linux at all? I can't find it. There is also no
mention of open source, just an "open platform", which could also mean "free public API documentation". So we don't know whether it is Linux, whether it is free software/opensource; we only know it is a platform for mobile phones.
Samsung's new smartphone platform Posted Nov 10, 2009 21:45 UTC (Tue) by jake (editor, #205) [Link]
> Is there any mention of Linux at all? I can't find it.
Nor could I, but the Grumpy Editor thought he heard somewhere that it was Linux-based. Perhaps it is related to the LiMo phone talked about in this article:
http://www.linuxfordevices.com/c/a/News/Samsung-i8320-tip...
jake
Samsung's new smartphone platform Posted Nov 11, 2009 18:39 UTC (Wed) by skvidal (subscriber, #3094) [Link]
Had to be done, I'm sorry:
<leeloo>Big Bada Boom</leeloo>
Samsung's new smartphone platform Posted Nov 12, 2009 5:36 UTC (Thu) by josh (subscriber, #17465) [Link]
They'll probably end up partnering with Microsoft for services, starting with the search engine, Bada Bing.
And, of course, when it inevitably crashes...
Samsung's new smartphone platform Posted Nov 12, 2009 20:13 UTC (Thu) by BenHutchings (subscriber, #37955) [Link]
Apparently Bada is a derivative of LiMo, so they're not entirely reinventing the 'mobile Linux' wheel.
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