Samsung to drop Symbian for bada?

John Chan | Nov 11, 2009

Samsung's new open mobile platform is named bada.
(Credit: bada.com)

According to Samsung's senior vice president Don Joo Lee in an interview with Digitimes, the Korean company will be dropping the Symbian operating system for its own mobile platform bada in 2010. Aside from bada, smartphones from the company will come with either Microsoft's Windows Mobile or Google's Android operating systems.

Samsung announced bada yesterday in a press release and will be providing more details, including the availability of a software development kit (SDK) to developers in December. The last Symbian-based smartphone from the company was the i8910 HD which is capable of HD video capture, a first for mobile phones.

Via Engadget

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minimach

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minimach says...
I guess it will be better to use its own platform than to pay Nokia the license for using Symbian. And Symbian's platform is not tat great for the future's phones that will be touchscreen based.

Nov 11, 2009 23:05

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madmusicmajor says...
agree.. let's see what samsung can come up with bada.
i'm hoping sony ericsson can come up with similar initiative. I don't think they'd want to stick up with Symbian for their few smartphones. The hardware of their phones are good but that most of their phones except the high-end Xperia, Satio, and Aino (note: pricey, worth two or three Nokia smartphones) are NOT smartphones puts me off.. Since I've had it with Nokia I'm considering shifting to Blackberry if Sony Ericsson holds its prices.

Nov 12, 2009 08:54

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