14 DAY TRIAL // South Korean mobile phone maker Samsung Electronics seems set to come to the market in 2011 with a brand new, greatly enhanced flavor of bada, its own mobile operating system, which was launched officially about a year ago.
Currently available as version 1.2, the mobile operating system is expected to hit version 2.0 during the next year, offering a great deal of enhancements to those who chose to purchased Samsung devices running under it.
Samsung themselves made the announcement, it seems. The one year-anniversary for the company's OS coincided with the South Korea’s developer day, where the handset vendor also announced the winners of the Samsung Apps contest.
The unveiling of Samsung's plans for the future of bada was the main attraction of the event, that's for sure.
According to a recent article on Samsung Hub, the upcoming bada 2.0 operating system flavor should include a new user interface, along with lots of other features that would make the user experience far more agreeable.
Some of these functionalities would include Near Field Communication (NFC) support, a smarter home screen, 3rd party SNS integration and more.
At the same time, the mobile phone maker confirmed plans to make the bada SDK available for developers that use Linux and Mac machines.
One of the main enhancements that bada 2.0 would arrive with should be multitasking, complemented by a series of security improvements, and support for a new revenue model (operator billing, ad gateway).
For the time being, the mobile phone maker did not announce plans to upgrade existing Wave devices to the upcoming platform version.
Samsung estimates that it would be able to ship a number of more than 10 million Wave smartphones during the first half of the next year, which is almost equal with the amount of bada devices it managed to sell during the ongoing year.