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History of bada

Samsung bada has a long history of almost 10 years. During this time, it has been Samsung's proprietary platform, having been deployed in many successful handsets. To make the proprietary platform smarter, we added exciting features such as multipoint-touch, 3D graphics, an enhanced UI, and of course, application downloads and installation, and so bada was born. Samsung bada is proven to be reliable with its success history and also enhanced with its new features.

• Overall the device feels like a glorified feature phone, and speaking to some other tech folks here, that feeling seemed to be common. There just doesn't seem to be a lot to it that we haven't seen in other Samsung devices, especially considering the TouchWiz integration.
• There was an issue with flipping the keyboard from portrait to landscape -- as we said the phone is early, so this may change, but we had to leave an app and reopen in the other orientation to get it working. We also noticed that there doesn't seem to be word prediction in place right now.
• The browser is redirecting to WAP pages, so it was hard to see what the results were. We also thought the buttons were in a very odd place, making it a bit hard to navigate.
• The display wasn't always responding to touches, and at least one unit completely froze on us.
• For those asking, from the looks of things (and the press release) .. we just tried pinching and zooming on the phone and while it did create some kind of zoom result, it also kept giving us an error! Furthermore, when we tried to load an image heavy site, it forced the phone into its task manager mode and made us close all applications before we could proceed with using the phone. Clearly there is work to be done.

Samsung's first phone running the Bada platform was the Wave S8500. The Wave is a slim touchscreen phone powered by Samsung's "Hummingbird" CPU (S5PC110), which includes a 1 GHz ARM Cortex-A8 CPU and a built-in PowerVR SGX 3D graphics engine, "Super AMOLED" screen and 720p high-def video capabilities. The S8500 is however, as of now, a defunct model.
The Samsung S8530 Wave II was made available in November 2010. It has a 3.7" Super Clear capacitive LCD touchscreen. It will be preloaded with the latest unreleased Bada 1.2.

Some publications have criticised Bada over the following issues:

• The external sensor API is not open-ended, preventing new types of sensors or unexpected technology developments from being added in the future.
• Due to "performance and privacy issues", Bada applications cannot access the SMS/MMS inbox or receive incoming SMS/MMS notifications.
• The Bada application framework only allows one Bada application to run at a time. Multitasking applications is possible between the native applications and one Bada application