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Tizen Gets Boost From Bada Merger

Posted by Soulskill on from the just-cram-them-all-together dept.

LinuxScribe writes "As predicted last September, Samsung has announced plans to merge Tizen with its own Bada platform to create a new mobile OS that will fit well on low- and high-end smartphones. Last year, Bada had more global phone deployments than Windows Phone 7. The merger means each Linux-based platform will have access to more native- and HTML5-based apps."

7 of 29 comments (clear)

  1. Merge? by gmuslera · · Score: 5, Interesting

    Adding a compatibility layer to run apps from one "linux distribution" into another don't sound that much as merging. Maemo and WebOS didn't merged when was released a compatibility layer that enabled Maemo to run WebOS games, neither Linux and Windows got merged when Wine was released.

    In any case, means more apps and then maybe more potential relevance to Tizen, and probably will balance things to have another player in the mobile arena.

    1. Re:Merge? by the+linux+geek · · Score: 4, Insightful

      Bada isn't based on Linux, despite what Wikipedia says. It uses the Mentor Nucleus microkernel with a custom Samsung userland.

      Also, it's been officially announced that Bada is being replaced with Tizen.

  2. Will there be a second device? by Dionysus · · Score: 4, Insightful

    I would wait until there is a second device running Tizen before I would consider it a viable solution. Given the history of the people behind Tizen, I suspect they will announce a reorganization of the project around the time a phone is first released with the OS. Maybe a rename while they're at it.

    --
    Je ne parle pas francais.
    1. Re:Will there be a second device? by Microlith · · Score: 2

      Thus far it's SLP, the Samsung Linux Project, which up until this point has been internal. It's had a tiny bit of exposure as part of LiMo, but LiMo never really had a community aside from their members due to the terribly insular nature of the organization.

      We have yet to see what Intel will be bringing to the table aside from money. As to the GP, hell, we need a FIRST device to run Tizen, let alone a second.

  3. Re:Why? by vivek7006 · · Score: 2

    because it bada bing, bada bang !

  4. Re:Why? by muon-catalyzed · · Score: 3, Informative

    Web Apps ? Nice idea, well tested in webOS -- nobody gives a damn. Bada has perhaps the best SDK, the only problem here is branding and marketing, Samsung has a poor record supporting their platform. Android on the other hand has the best marketing, but up to Gingerbread it was a technical nightmare. Now Android is getting better steadily. The key is to implement all those Kronos group open APIs and the system would be fine. Google intends to follow open standards and system critical APIs like OpenSL, making things faster and more developer friendly.. (finally)

  5. Re:Why? by sunderland56 · · Score: 2

    because it bada bing

    Bada bing? Is that their search engine?