Samsung today entered into the mobile OS arena with bada. The software, whose name is based on the Korean for “ocean,” is designed to be open and will compete directly against rivals like Android. Earlier today we reported that Samsung will be dropping Windows Mobile and Symbian for Android, looks like Android is going to get booted too.

Most details are left vague, but bada will have a central app store and the 1st device with bada will come out in 2010. You can expect to hear more in December when the company holds its launch event for the platform in London.

There are rumors that the OS will be based on universal standards and won’t consider even core aspects of the OS off-limits to developers, they can modify contacts, the dialer and other utilities with new features of their own. Watch out Android …

Official site : http://www.bada.com/

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Electronista is making a claim which states that Samsung will be pushing more Android devices in the near future. According to the claim. In 2010 Samsung devices with Windows Mobile will be reduced to 50 percent, its currently around the 80 percent mark and by 2012 it will be further reduced to just 20 percent of Samsung’s phones.

Its also said that by by 2011 there will be no more Symbian device from Samsung. So it 2010 there will be very few Symbian device on Samsung. So you have to wonder where is Samsung going to take its business ? Samsung will increase its use of Android to about 30 percent next year and also have bold plans to introduce a new proprietary Samsung OS ( bases on TouchWiz ? ) should arrive next year and gradually form about half of all the company’s smartphone sales.

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Armani’s empire unveiled a new, €700 (or about $1030) smartphone built by Samsung, running Microsoft’s latest 6.5 OS. The device will be featuring a full touchscreen and slide-out, landscape QWERTY keyboard — touts a 3.5-inch AMOLED display, a 5 megapixel camera, 8GB of internal storage, GPS chip, and microSD slot.

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Samsung’s TouchWiz UI, is no stranger for Windows Mobile users, they’ve also have got TouchWiz up and running onSymbian, and Samsung’s own proprietary OS. TouchWiz looks and behaves more or less identically on all of these platforms, providing some degree of uniform user experience across vastly different interfaces.

According to MobileCrunch Each TouchWiz-enabled device came with 10-15 widgets, and that was that. If you wanted to download more, you were out of luck. If you wanted to make your own, that was just too bad. That’s all about to change coz Later today, Samsung will be launching a TouchWiz section of their Mobile Innovator portal. With this, Samsung is officially opening up development of TouchWiz widgets to third party developers. Currently limited to the likes of world clocks and picture frames, TouchWiz may soon be jam-packed with Twitter widgets and fart buttons ( ah the good old fart apps , dont they seem to find their way in to everything )

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Thanks to darkchmatak, we have the Omnia II photo album available for the rest of us.

Features:

- view all your photos
- optional slideshow (set duration, transitions, moving direction)
- zoom in/out
- swipe left/right to change photos
- manage photos

Installation:

- unzip to a new folder on device/storage
- run “PhotoAlbum.exe”
- have fun with new Photo Album

Note: Music button (in slideshow) does not work

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Do you take a lot of pictures with your phone’s camera and wish you could upload them straight to your favorite networking sites? You can with Sharepix! Sharepix is an app from Samsung that lets you upload photos to sites like Facebook and MySpace.

Features:

- Upload to Friendster, Facebook, MySpace, Photobucket.
- Upload many photos together.
- Upload photos to all 4 sites together
- Upload reservation reminder
- Select upload category on select site

Note: flickr and picasa are disabled.

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CareAce.net recently reported about a neat, innovative app from Samsung. Caxixi (pronounced ca-shi-shi) is an application written for Samsung Windows Mobile phones such as the Omnia. It plays the sounds of a variety of percussion instruments. The sounds are triggered by shaking the phone using a variety of gestures. You can have 5 different sounds mapped to different movements at any given time. Although you can only map 5 movements, you can choose from a variety of different sounds to map to those movements.

Note: Caxixi is currently only available for U.S. and European Omnia.

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The guys @ CareAce.net which is a Samsung WinMo support site has posted the instruction to enroll on the Samsung Application Store. They have submitted the Freeware application Bluetooth Icon notifier and it has been submitted as a Freeware and the Seller Registration Fee was US$1 and not US$99 are u listening Microsoft ? The app once approved will be distributed to 22 countries via the Samsung AppStore.

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Samsung’s Armani redo, the F480, as you might have noticed it’s running a new OS. The UI — called TouchWiz — is based off of the company’s Croix interface (which apparently was rushed out to compete with the iPhone), and will be used on all of the upcoming finger-touch phones from the manufacturer. The cats over at Phone Scoop had a chance to go one-on-one with TouchWiz at Mobile World Congress, and they’ve put together a pretty informative video that shows off the UI doing its thing. The inclusion of a new widget system, expanded menu options, and overall speed bump make this OS a notable step up from Samsung’s previous offering.

Source : engadget.com