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New Feature on Samsung Bada 2

While the stars of Samsung in MWC 2011 were 3 teams with Android (Samsung Galaxy Tab 10.1, Samsung Galaxy S 2 and Samsung Galaxy S WiFi), Samsung also announced the Wave 578, a new smartphone with Samsung Bada platform.

And a year after its launch, now took to officially present it will be Samsung Bada 2.0, the next version of the platform with several interesting improvements and a strategy that is well thought out note:

“We are delighted with the success of the original platform bada, which was launched last year at MWC. We have built on that with bada 2.0 to create a versatile and robust platform capable of continuing with the success of its predecessor. We have also created and strengthened an ecosystem around Bada, ensuring that developers can create applications that our customers need and want, “began in the announcement JK Shin, president and head of Samsung Mobile Communications Business. Among the new find in Bada 2.0 are:

  • Support for Near Field Communication (NFC) for both reading and writing.
  • Push Technology: Permission to push a message in the fast panel as an icon and number while running an app.
  • HTML 5
  • Direct WiFi
  • WAC 2.0
  • Multitasking: “Task competing for specific categories of applications.”
  • FlashLite 4
  • Managing Layout
  • Lock screen interactive, Flash-based
  • Application framework: improving control applications. “Registration of third party applications with MIME and URI scheme to invoke later.”
  • Speech Recognition: STT (Speech-to-Text) and TTS (Text-to-Speech)
  • Samsung Apps Shop: add better business models in advertising, phone bill, prepaid cards and “cyber cash”.
  • 3D Sound
  • OpenAL
  • New SDK, with advanced code analyzer, a simulator faster for developers to learn more in detail the performance of your applications

The announcement of Samsung 2.0 Bada Bada was carried out during the Developer Day, where they met, according to organizers, about 200 developers around the world and was part of the ADC (Application Developer Conference) in Planet App for Mobile World Congress marking the anniversary the first cell to Bada, the Samsung Wave S8500 .

Free Bada Games and Applications for Samsung Wave

In addition to using Android and Windows Phone 7 at the high end, while Samsung wants to give much impetus to its own mobile platform Bada and for that you need to have good games and applications available on the latest phones that announced: Samsung Wave 525, Samsung Wave 533, Samsung Wave 575 and Samsung Wave 723.

To try to satisfy its users, those who go to buy these new phones in the family Bada Samsung Wave will have free games and applications: Spore Creatures, Assassin’s Creed, FIFA 2010, Tetris Refresh, SSkin themes, dictionary DioDict and Princess Therapy Magic e-book.

This is a limited offer because, for example, Assassin’s Creed II is free for the first 300 thousand downloads while Spore Creatures by about 250 thousand downloads as well as FIFA 10 (all other applications are to go down “limited time”). It’s a shame that the successful Samsung S8500 Wave was not included in this promotion but it is interesting to see how Samsung is trying to propel their phones in different ways with Bada.