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What he said is true but it misses the main points. The main thing you need to know is that it's based on the Meego system that powered Nokia's last successful phone, the Nokia N9. Like most of the new systems coming in (FirefoxOS for example) there is no hope of it immediately catching up Android and iOS on apps. HTML5 is becoming the cross platform way to quickly get that range so that's what they always push.

Tizen is more than that; It's NTT DoCoMo's new main smartphone platform and since NTT DoCoMo is where much of mobile innovation starts that makes it important. As ever, the best analysis is he one from Tommi Ahonen. NTT DoCoMo was strongly into Symbian and pushing Tizen will be their revenge for it being killed.

Tizen can support QT apps so the same ones that will work on Sailfish and Blackberry can easily work here. Also Tizen seems to be source code compatible with Bada which has been very successful in the newer mobile phone markets.

I'm not sure if this is available in the States, but Samsung's Bada would probably be one of the most secure mobile OS at the moment. There are no exploits out in the wild and no way to root it unless you actually flash the firmware.

More information on security is available via this developer link.

well.. you would have api's. manufacturer specific at first, with manufacturer specific bugs. oh wait that's where html5&css apps on mobiles have been for years.
in this regard LG would be creating javascript api's to access those devices, just like samsung already did..

http://developer.bada.com/help_2.0/topic/com.osp.webapireference.help/symbols/WAC.Camera.html

for nokias I couldn't find a camera api off the bat(it might not exist, I don't remember seeing it anyhow), but this is where that would be anyways.. http://www.developer.nokia.com/Resources/Library/Web/#!web-apps/symbian-web-runtime/symbian-web-runtime-versions-and-device-support.html

oh and bada has sold in some relevant numbers.

but it's all shite really, web apps on mobiles... java makes much more sense and native apps of course even more. they're glorified web pages you're going to be looking at anyhow and things like phonegap already give you the possibility to do your stuff in html5 if you really insist..

Still an OS from Samsung? Seems everybody wants an OS nowadays ;)

http://www.bada.com/

Baidu looks suspiciously like Bada, another mobile Linux-based OS in development by the Korean conglomerate Samsung. Maybe they'll adopt that?

Would be a nice match, but Samsung now has Bada.

Wow, Samsung's Bada website has a 456K background image on the front page, mostly of water ripples. I guess it's not meant to be viewed on a mobile connection...

...it's an API specification for loadable applications on top of some arbitrary operating system. You can find the documentation here (although I don't know whether you need to log in to see the API docs).

It's all in C++, and isn't bad, actually, with a rich class library and a UI that actually works. Right now it's all still in prototype, with an Eclipse-and-gcc-based IDE that builds Intel binaries and runs them on a simulator. To build for the device you need a copy of ARM's RealView compiler (at about 20,000 UKP a head), but I hear rumours that they're going to provide a gcc-based approach. It's all ARM binary based so if you don't have an ARM phone you're out of luck.

As for the operating system --- so far it appears to be based on a Samsung proprietary OS called SHP, but as it's just an API spec, I can easily imagine bada systems on other operating systems.

And yes, it's all DRMd up the wazoo. Apps have to be signed, by them, before they can be installed.

From the website navigation menu: bada for business | bada for developers.

Bada for Samsung, more like.

Why did you reply to the first thread instead of starting your own?

Also, get off my lawn.

From the website navigation menu: bada for business | bada for developers.

Bada for Samsung, more like.

But does it run Linux!?

http://www.bada.com/a-glimpse-at-samsung-bada/

"The kernel layer, which can be based on a real-time OS or Linux kernel, depending on hardware configuration"

That's a definite 'maybe'.