Two years ago, Samsung offered us an ‘Invitation to Adventure’ setting sail on its own open source mobile operating software which would be known as Bada. We sadly didn’t hear very much more than that and in a tidal wave of Android-based and Apple iOS-based gadgets we got washed up in the popular smartphone trends – Samsung never even putting the boat in the water. Or so it seemed.
Respected news rag The New York Times is reporting that we may still see some sign of Samsung’s Bada OS and that the company are planning to break away somewhat from being dependant on Android as the running system of choice, after Google snapped up Motorola communication assets.
Samsung is looking to continue work on its own project, starting from scratch, rather than buying up defunct software – something like WebOS which was recently canned by Hewlett-Packard. Following such OS bail-outs as HP on WebOS and Nokia/Intel on MeeGo we’d have to wish Samsung the best of luck. With dominating mobile software such as Android and iOS so widely distributed – they’ll need it. They can however deliver some stunning technology such as those AMOLED touchscreens, first introduced in the Galaxy S II phones – with Galaxy S III seemingly on the way, features like these could be a massive point of sale for a Samsung OS.
And bear in mind, there is speculation that Samsung’s turn with Microsoft on the Windows Phone project will only last until the end of 2012, this would leave an unanswered future for the Korean tech co.
As per usual the source is one whom claims to be ‘close’ to the situation, so we’ll file this under ‘Rumour’ for the time being. The Gadget Helpline will be following this story and deliver the latest updates when it happens.
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