Samsung adds its own platform Bada with Linux distro Tizen, which the manufacturer together with Intel develops. That says a ceo of the company. This is Bada for the first time a full-fledged mobile operating system.
Samsung has been working since september, along with Intel on the development of a Linux kernel-based operating system Tizen. Tizen is valid as a successor of MeeGo, the OS that Nokia and Intel were developing. Samsung would be next month, the first smartphone with Tizen wish to present, the I9500. The letter I indicates that Samsung Tizen more as a smartphone than Bada, in which all devices have the prefix S got. I was previously used for high-end devices with Android, such as the I9000 Galaxy S, I9100 Galaxy S II and the I9250 Galaxy Nexus. Previously, the I-series used for the I8000 Omnia 2 with Windows Mobile, the I8700 Omnia 7 with Windows Phone, and the I8910 Omnia HD with Symbian.
The Korean manufacturer unveiled Bada in the winter of 2010. Only months later came the first phone with Bada on the market, the S8500 Wave. This was followed by the Wave II and Wave 3, as are several cheaper varieties. Due to the low prices picked up Bada last year and a half 2 percent of the smartphone market. This is Bada still larger than for example Windows Phone, so it charges Forbes.
Bada is, however, still not a fully-fledged operating system: Bada is just an open platform on a rtos kernel. Rtos-kernels are mainly used in cheap phones. The Linux kernel will form the basis of the OS that comes from the merge Tizen and Bada.
