Samsung Announces Three New Bada Smartphones
Samsung's got a trio of new phones on show at IFA.
With all of the Google Android-based phones we see every day, it's quite the change of pace when a company launches a smartphone running on its own OS. Especially when that company is Samsung and has quite an impressive Android portfolio in the Galaxy line.
Samsung just unveiled three new phones based on its Bada OS, the Wave 3, the Wave M and the Wave Y. The most notable of the three is definitely the Wave 3 (above). Boasting a 4-inch Super AMOLED display, a 1.4GHz processor, and a 5-megapixel camera capable of shooting video at 720p, the Wave 3's spec-sheet is in line with some of the most powerful phones on sale today. The phone also comes with Samsung's ChatOn, which is similar to BBM, and the Bada 2.0 OS supports NFC, Wi-Fi Direct and multitasking.
The other two phones, the Wave M and Wave Y (above, top and bottom, respectively), are also Bada 2.0 phones. The Wave M is geared towards the social crowd with Samsung pushing the ChatOn functionality of this 3.7-inch device along with streamlined messaging feeds, enhanced on-the-go web browsing, WiFi Direct and NFC. As far as specs are concerned, the Wave M boasts 832MHz processor, a 5-megapixel camera, a front-facing camera for video-calling, and Bluetooth 3.0. The Wave Y is designed as sort of a starter smartphone for those just leaving their dumbphones behind. It boasts a 3.2-inch display, an 832MHz processor, a 2-megapixel camera with flash, Bluetooth 3.0, ChatOn, a Social Hub, and a Music Hub.
No word on pricing or availability just yet but we'll keep you posted.
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Stop being cheap Samsung, use bloody Android. You'd sell more phones that way anyway.
Who wants Bada?
Stop being cheap Samsung, use bloody Android. You'd sell more phones that way anyway.Who wants Bada?
If Bada works better thanAndroid, whod want an android? Give it a chance, to see how it does in the market. WebOS nearly died because of that mentality, but it was undoubtably a good OS.Lets just see how app devs review this OS and how well it sells.
Make perfect sense, as no business would want to put all their eggs in one basket (in this case i.e. android). Bada is a decent OS, which if Samsung put some serious effort can drive Android out of lower/entry level droids. But I want that SGSII based WPM phone out soon !!
Samsung's made these phones different enough to avoid a lawsuit...
Stop being cheap Samsung, use bloody Android. You'd sell more phones that way anyway.Who wants Bada?
Technically speaking (if I'm not mistaken) but isn't a license to use Android on your device free? So isn't Samsung being cheap when they choose Android, where as it costs a lot of money to develop your own OS. Take it from me, a software developer, we are not cheap and to write your own OS is pretty ambitious and NOT cheap. lol Props to Samsung for trying something new. Choices to the consumer are good, imo.
Samsung is playing it safe continuing to develop their own OS. Android might one day be unavailable if Google goes with Motorola exclusivity. So might Windows if they decide to go proprietary with Nokia.
@Paul
It is one of the possibilities, but I am inclined more towards a scenario where Motorola will get 'more preferential treatment', which off-course will be just as bad. So I think in next year or so most of the top tier OEMs will be diversifying their offerings.
Kudos to Samsung, these look like great phones and the OS looks good too.
sorry but bada own android in my opinion, im not using useless app and for responding bada is pretty fast , call, log, music, video, camera origin app, contact list.
great another OS that will have an app market with no apps. i feel sorry for developers trying to be multi platform
Samsung do develop applications for Bada, just like they do for Android, and they are much better than lots of crap in android market. And as far as I know, WP is outpacing android when it comes to applications growth in the market. So OEMs are choosing to diversify for a reason as I said earlier, it is not a smart thing to be dependent on just one software supplier.
I have the Samsung S8500 (original WAVE) and I love it. My wife has the HTC Desire with Android 2.2 (I think). I much prefer my WAVE - easier to use overall. What is disappointing is that in Australia the BADA OS version remains at 1.0, whereas other countries have V1.2.
More boring looking slate form factor phones.
At least they look better than the iphone 4, which is pretty much like a brick .....
If you can search with Bing on one of these, is it Bada Bing?