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Samsung Enters Smartphone Wars With Bada OS
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."
Fuck Samsung's phones. They make great TVs, though.
Sharp's TVs beat Samsung's like a dead horse.
All I want is Motorola hardware with... someone else's OS. Frankly, so far they all blow.
"You're right," Fisheye says. "I should have set it on 'whip' or 'chop.'"
All I want is Motorola hardware with... someone else's OS. Frankly, so far they all blow.
I know I'll either get flamed or modded +5 insightful, but I would really consider getting an iPhone. There's only one thing that will keep me from doing it: I want to be able to remove the battery from my phone. If I can't swap out my battery if I drop my phone in water or replace it on my own, then I don't want that phone.
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I'll add another two things to that list.
It doesn't have a keyboard. Some people are OK with that, but I'm not.
You can't put external memory cards in it, and it isn't that easy to add files to it without getting the laptop out and using iTunes.
>> I know I'll either get flamed or modded +5 insightful
We really need "Sheep -1000" mod now. For this. For real.
How about the sheep mods who actually mod me up because of that statement? I made a post a few weeks ago that was OT discussing the metamoderation system and I made a point that "Odds are as long as you look like you are correct, you'll be modded up. Watch, I probably will be too!". Sure enough, I was modded up.
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But I don't have a Micro SD card reader, I do have an USB tho.
So you see, you can share your music only with people with Micro SD card readers.
An what about generic USB devices? I can use my 10$ MP3 player, but the iPhone doesn't work.
Love many, trust a few, do harm to none.