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Samsung Enters Smartphone Wars With Bada OS

Posted by samzenpus on from the new-phone-on-the-block dept.

MojoKid writes "Samsung is betting there's room for more in the smartphone market and has unveiled its new bada OS. The name 'bada,' means 'ocean' in Korean and was chosen to convey the 'limitless variety of potential applications which can be created using the new platform.' Samsung claims the OS is extremely simple for developers, saying that bada was built to be extremely interactive with its users — including flash control, motion sensing, fine-tuned vibration control and face detection. Samsung is hoping developers will take this user interface and create a variety of applications focused around it, and thus provide different types of apps than exist for the iPhone and Android OS. The bada OS has a variety of sensors, including accelerometers, tilt, weather, proximity and activity. Samsung will be hosting a series of Developer Days in Seoul, London and San Francisco, among other cities, throughout 2010."

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  1. BadOS? by Spazztastic · · Score: 3, Funny

    BadOS? Was Windows Mobile rebranded?

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  2. Unlikely to come with Google search installed, by fridaynightsmoke · · Score: 4, Funny

    very likely to come with Bada Bing.

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    1. Re:Unlikely to come with Google search installed, by Aladrin · · Score: 3, Funny

      And with a little C4, Bada Boom.

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    2. Re:Unlikely to come with Google search installed, by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 1, Funny

      You don't need C4, just use the battery that comes with the iPhone.

  3. Re:Oh goody! by OrangeTide · · Score: 3, Funny

    The entire user interface should be written in a custom natural language, or maybe Esperanto. Interlingua or Lojban. Forcing customer lock-in because once they learn to read and speak in a proprietary langauge they won't want to switch to a different device. This fits in nicely with using custom connectors for power and headphones. Custom memory cards are also an option here, although Sony invented that idea first.

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  4. Re:OS wars are over by Spazztastic · · Score: 5, Funny

    I've written a few worthless OSes myself. One of them actually gets used still. But I wrote it out of desperation, not as a business model.

    Hey guys, get your pitchforks and torches! I think I found the guy who wrote Windows!

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  5. slashdotOS by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 3, Funny

    Based on goatseOS, lets you get your dots on all your slashes. Coming to the trollphone and dogballs netbook in 2016.

  6. Re:OS wars are over by AmberBlackCat · · Score: 2, Funny

    I was guessing SkyOS.

  7. Smartphone Wars? by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 5, Funny

    In A.D. 2009
    Smartphone war was beginning.

    Steve Jobs: What happen?
    Steve's assistant: Somebody set up us the Samsung Bada.

    Apple technician: We get UMTS signal.
    Steve Jobs: What?

    (...)

    1. Re:Smartphone Wars? by Hurricane78 · · Score: 3, Funny

      (...)
      Apple technician: Main bubble turn on!
      Steve Jobs: It's Tux !!
      Tux: How are you fanboys !!
      Tux: All your phone are belong to us.
      Tux: You are on the way to bailout.
      Steve Jobs: What you say !!
      Tux: You have no chance to form bubbly make your time.
      Tux: HA HA HA HA ....
      Steve Jobs: Take off every 'iPhone' !!
      Steve Jobs: You know what you selling.
      Steve Jobs: Move 'iPhone'.
      Steve Jobs: For great justice.

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