{"id":13106,"date":"2010-06-15T15:50:00","date_gmt":"2010-06-15T13:50:00","guid":{"rendered":""},"modified":"2010-06-15T15:50:00","modified_gmt":"2010-06-15T13:50:00","slug":"samsung-wave-here-after-world-cup","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/cellular\/13106-samsung-wave-here-after-world-cup.html","title":{"rendered":"Samsung Wave here after World Cup"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Samsung announced that the Samsung Wave, the first smartphone based on Samsung&rsquo;s new, open smartphone platform, bada, will be launched in South Africa after the FIFA World Cup.<\/p>\n<p>Samsung said that it is currently constructing a total eco-system around bada platform including Samsung Apps.<\/p>\n<p>Samsung Apps will be available in 80 countries when the Wave launches, and will increase the premium content and applications pool through collaboration with partner companies and developers.<\/p>\n<p>According to the company the availability of the Samsung bada SDK (Software Development Kit) will ensure that consumers can experience a steady stream of new applications that support bada platform.<\/p>\n<p>The beta version of the SDK was recently made available to applications developers, and the complete bada SDK 1.0.0 will be available for download shortly.<\/p>\n<p>&ldquo;The Samsung Wave represents our strategy to deliver rich, exciting smartphone experiences to everyone,&rdquo; said JK Shin, President and head of the Mobile Communications Business at Samsung Electronics.<\/p>\n<p>&ldquo;This launch will make our platform vision a reality and consumers, developers and operators will experience the freedom of choice that bada enables.&rdquo;&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>The Samsung Wave will expand its availability from European countries to Southeast Asia, China, the Middle East and other parts of Africa, and Latin America.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/vb\/showthread.php?241694-Samsung-Wave-in-South-Africa-after-World-Cup\"><strong>Samsung Wave<\/strong><\/a> &lt;&lt; give your views about this new phone<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Samsung Wave, first bada smartphone to hit the market post World Cup<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_sma_x_autopost_status":"idle","_sma_x_autopost_error":"","_sma_x_post_id":"","_sma_facebook_post_id":"","_sma_instagram_post_id":"","_sma_threads_post_id":"","_sma_x_attempts":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[14],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-13106","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-cellular"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/13106"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=13106"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/13106\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=13106"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=13106"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=13106"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}