Bada OS – definition – Bada (stylized as bada; Korean: 바다) is a discontinued operating system for mobile devices such as smartphones and tablet computers. It was developed by Samsung Electronics. Its name is derived from “바다 (bada)”, meaning “ocean” or “sea” in Korean. It ranges from mid- to high-end smartphones.
To foster adoption of Bada OS, since 2011 Samsung reportedly had considered releasing the source code under an open-source license, and expanding device support to include Smart TVs. Samsung announced in June 2012 intentions to merge Bada into the Tizen project, but would meanwhile use its own Bada operating system, in parallel with Google Android OS and Microsoft Windows Phone, for its smartphones.
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Bada 2.0 home screen
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| Developer | Samsung Electronics |
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| Written in | C++ |
| OS family | POSIX (Linux) |
| Working state | Stopped (Replaced by Tizen) |
| Source model | Mixed: proprietary and open source components |
| Final release | 2.0.6 SDK / 28 February 2013 |
| Marketing target | Smartphone |
| Available in | Multilingual |
| Package manager | Samsung Kies |
| Kernel type | Monolithic (Linux Kernel) |
| Default user interface | TouchWiz, graphical (touchscreen) |
| License | Proprietary |
| Official website | www |
All devices running Bada were branded under the Wave name, unlike Samsung’s devices that are branded under the name Galaxy, which do not encompass the whole range of Samsung devices running Android.
On 25 February 2013, Samsung announced that it would stop developing Bada, moving development to Tizen instead. Bug reporting was terminated in April 2014
History
Bada and the mobile software distributions to which it is related
After the announcement of Bada, the Wave S8500, which would eventually turn to be the first Bada-based phone, was first shown to the public at Mobile World Congress 2010 in Barcelona in February 2010. Alongside Bada itself, some applications running on Bada were exhibited, including mobile videogames like Gameloft‘s Asphalt 5.[9] The Samsung Wave S8500, released in May that year,[10][11] sold one million handsets over the first four weeks on the market.
According to Samsung, companies such as Twitter, EA, Capcom, Gameloft and Blockbuster revealed their support for the Bada platform by having arranged development partnerships with Samsung since before the launch, and shared a few insights about their vision for the future of mobile apps and how Bada would play a role in it. These were a showcase of what could be heard in a series of events held across the world during the year 2010, called Developer Days. In addition, it was made public the announcement of an incoming Bada Developer Challenge with a total prize of $2,700,000 (USD) throughout the launch event. In May 2010, Samsung released a beta of their Bada software development kit (SDK), making it available to the general public as it had done with partners the previous December, to entice potential developers of applications for this platform. In August 2010, Samsung released version 1.0 of the Bada SDK. A year later, in August 2011, version 2.0 of the Bada SDK was released.
