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UPDATE: As Sven points out, this could have been done to avoid any hurdles in the EU region but Samsung too, has applied for the Bada and Vita OS trademarks.
Going through recent trademark filings from Samsung, I discovered an interesting filing. A trademark by the name of “VITA OS” was filed by Samsung [...]

 
Take it as pure speculation for now but there are compelling reasons that Samsung will show bada phone (or phones) at MWC next month. Samsung’s CES showcase was more of televisions (including 3D), displays, cameras and netbooks. But MWC is a mobile-centric event and since JK Shin, the President and Head of Mobile Communications Division, [...]

 
Samsung bada’s press event was nothing more than a showcase of what bada can do but this technical session meant only for developers and content partners reveals a lot more. Check out the long video here.

 
Here are few more screenshots of Samsung’s bada OS. As like the previous time, these screens also hint at touch friendliness. However, it will be interesting to see its responsiveness in real world. Another thing that has come to light is that bada phones won’t support multi-tasking. bada phones support one application policy, which means [...]

 
Few bada OS screenshots have found their way out on the net and it gives pleasure to see that it won’t be as uninteresting and not-so-revealing as the recent bada announcement. The UI seems finger friendly and will be able to exploit other interesting features like multitouch support, motion sensing and more.
First bada powered [...]

 
Samsung’s unveiling of bada mobile OS platform today was a disappointment. Nothing substantial was revealed nor did Samsung have a single bada prototype on display. But more importantly, the question in everyone’s mind was “Do we need another mobile platform?”
Well, if you consider Samsung’s monetary goal, then yes. To cut the long story short, [...]

 
Within few minutes, Samsung will showcase its bada platform to the world along with few partnership announcements with Twitter, Blockbuster, CAPCOM, EA Mobile and Gameloft.
The bada’s UI will be based on Samsung’s TouchWiz that is already being used in most of the Samsung devices. Bada will allow developers to develop apps by taking advantage of [...]

 
Yesterday, a Digitimes report claimed Samsung dropping Symbian from its mobile portfolio and today we’ve got a different word straight from Samsung’s HQ. Samsung says the report is not in line with their smartphone strategy and will continue to build Symbian phones.
Samsung is an initial member of Symbian Foundation and continues to cooperate with [...]

 
Symbian phones were always a minority in Samsung’s portfolio and it looks like they’ll give it a complete miss by next year. Senior VP, Don Joo Lee confirmed that Samsung will quit making Symbian handsets and instead adopt its own Bada OS that was unveiled yesterday. Though, Samsung will continue making WinMo and Android OS [...]

 
Samsung announced to launch a new open mobile platform in December. Dubbed as Bada, the name signifies “ocean” in Korean which conveys the unlimited potential of the new platform. The new OS is aimed at developers as well as mobile operators because of the easy creation and customization of applications.
As for consumers, Samsung claims [...]