So Bada is now dead.

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Samsung will merge bada OS into the Tizen(Old Meego) project

In an interview at CES 2012 this week, Samsung's Tae-Jin Kang has revealed his company's intention to fold bada OS into the Intel-backed Tizen open source OS project. Bada is, or was, Samsung's homebrew effort at developing its own operating system, an effort that we were dubious about from the start. After failing to find much traction with its Wave handsets, Samsung is now wisely deciding to abandon hope of going it alone in the cutthroat mobile OS realm and is joining up with a development project that offers an opportunity for collaboration with others.

That's not to say that Tizen has much better prospects that bada would've had on its own. Tizen is the new badge placed upon MeeGo, the formerly promising Linux-based OS that Intel and Nokia were going to rock our world with until Nokia decided Windows Phone offered a better shot at success. In truth, this is a coming together of two outsider projects that need to consolidate their powers if they're to stand any chance.

Samsung promises backwards compatibility with current bada apps in its future integrated software product, as well as continued support for apps written using the bada SDK. "At least one to two" Tizen-powered Samsung phones will come out this year, according to Forbes' quote of Tae-Jin Kang, though it appears the open source OS will figure in the lower portion of the company's portfolio. The true high end will remain dedicated to Android and Windows Phone for the foreseeable future.
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Source The Verge

Sad to see another choice go. We might get surprised one day in the future with Tizen but I think as long as Android is in the picture or "free" it will not happen.
 
Hey elimentals, as long as we have 3-4 smartphone os's going at a time I am not too worried.

If samsung allowed other manufacturers to use bada it may have gotten off the ground.

Anyhow good luck to intel and samsung. I hope they build something great.

Sent from a galaxy, in joburg via tapatalk.
 
Thread title is missleading since it would imply Bada was alive at some point which it never was. It's always been a sad piece of junk.
 
SCHUMI-4-EVA said:
Thread title is missleading since it would imply Bada was alive at some point which it never was. It's always been a sad piece of junk.
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LOL!! Yeah, I think Android killed it before it really took off, although the Samsung Wave did sell some phones in the low price range.

According to Canalys, Samsung shipped 3.5 million phones running Bada in Q1 of 2011. This rose to 4.5 million phones in Q2 of 2011
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Source: Wiki
 
Interesting thing is bad a sold better than Windows Phone in 2011,but I'm thinking that's more due to the price ranges.. on Merging bada,Samsung has released a statement to All Things D saying that while they are considering the merge no actual decision had been made to go ahead as was previously reported :)
 
There's already a good choice between Android, iOS, Blackberrry OS, Windows Phone, Meego & Symbian. R.I.P. WebOS.
 
kingrob said:
There's already a good choice between Android, iOS, Blackberrry OS, Windows Phone, Meego & Symbian. R.I.P. WebOS.
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Well Meego is now part of Tizen so in essence Bada is now part of your list ;)
 
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