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For other uses, see Bada (disambiguation).
Bada
Bada 2.0 Home screen
DeveloperSamsung Electronics
Written inC (core),[1] Java (UI)[citation needed], C++, Flash
Working stateCurrent (will be merged with Tizen
Source modelMixed: open source and proprietary
Latest release2.0.5 SDK / March 15, 2012; 12 years ago (2012-03-15)
Marketing targetSmartphone
Available inMultilingual
Kernel typeRTOS or Linux kernel[2]
Default
user interface		TouchWiz, Graphical (Touchscreen)
Official websitewww.bada.com
Bada
Hangul
바다
Revised RomanizationBada
McCune–ReischauerPada

Bada (stylized as bada; Korean: 바다) is an operating system for mobile devices such as smartphones and tablet computers. It is developed by Samsung Electronics. Its name is derived from "바다 (bada)", meaning "ocean" or "sea" in Korean. It ranges from mid-range to high-end smartphones.[3]

To foster adoption of Bada OS, Samsung is reportedly considering releasing the source code under an open-source license, and expanding device support to include Smart TVs.[4] Samsung has announced it will merge Bada into the Tizen project, but it is not confirmed.[5][6]

History

After the announcement, the Wave S8500 was first shown at Mobile World Congress 2010 in Barcelona in February 2010. At that time, applications running on the first Bada phone were demonstrated, including Gameloft's Asphalt 5.[7]

After the launch, companies such as Twitter, EA, Capcom, Gameloft and Blockbuster showed their support for the Bada platform.[8]

In May 2010, Samsung released a beta of their Bada software development kit (SDK) to attract developers. Samsung also began the Bada Developer Challenge with a total prize of $2,700,000 (USD).[9] In August 2010, Samsung released version 1.0 of the SDK.

In August 2011, Samsung released version 2.0 of the SDK. This new version provides many enhancements over its predecessors.

The first Bada-based phone was the Samsung Wave S8500, released in April, 2010,[10][11] which sold one million handsets in its first 4 weeks on the market.[12]

Versions

The Samsung S8500 Wave was launched with version 1.0 of the Bada operating system. Soon after the launch, Samsung released version 1.0.2, which included minor fixes for European users.[13] The latest version 1.2 was released with the Samsung S8530 Wave II phone.[14] The alpha-version of Bada 2.0 was introduced on February 15, 2011, with the Samsung S8530 Wave II handset

Samsung Apps

With the release of the Samsung Wave, Samsung opened an international application store, Samsung Apps, for the Bada platform.[15] Samsung Apps has over 2400 applications.[16]

Architecture

Bada Architecture
Bada Architecture

Bada, as Samsung defines it, is not an operating system itself, but a platform with a kernel configurable architecture, which allows using either a proprietary real-time operating system hybrid (RTOS) kernel and Linux kernel.[2] According to copyrights displayed by Samsung Wave S8500, it uses code from FreeBSD, NetBSD and OpenBSD. Despite numerous suggestions, there is no known bada device to date that is running the Linux kernel. Similarly, there is no evidence that bada uses the same or similar graphics stack as the Tizen OS, in particular EFL.

The device layer provides core functions such as graphics, protocols, telephony and security. The service layer provides more service-centric features such as SMS, mapping and in-app-purchasing. To provide such features there is a so-called bada Server. The top layer, the framework layer provides an application programming interface (API) in C++ for application developers to use.

Bada provides various UI controls to developers: It provides assorted basic UI controls such as Listbox, Color Picker and Tab, has a web browser control based on the open-source WebKit, and features Adobe Flash, supporting Flash 9, 10 or 11 (Flash Lite 4 with ActionScript 3.0 support) in Bada 2.0. Both the WebKit and Flash can be embedded inside native Bada applications. Bada supports OpenGL ES 2.0 3D graphics API and offers interactive mapping with point of interest (POI) features, which can also be embedded inside native applications.[17] It supports pinch-to-zoom, tabbed browsing and cut, copy, and paste features.[18]

Bada supports many mechanisms to enhance interaction, which can be incorporated into applications. These include various sensors such as motion sensing, vibration control, face detection, accelerometer, magnetometer, tilt, Global Positioning System (GPS), and multi-touch.[9]

Native applications are developed in C++ with the Bada SDK, and the Eclipse based integrated development environment (IDE). GNU-based tool chains are used for building and debugging applications. The IDE also contains UI Builder, with which developers can easily design the interface of their applications by dragging and dropping UI controls into forms. For testing and debugging, the IDE contains an emulator which can run apps.

Criticism to Bada 1.x

  • In the beginning, all VOIP over wifi applications were banned which meant that popular applications such as Skype could not be used. In March 2011 this restriction was removed, allowing VOIP applications to run on the platform.[19]

Some publications have criticized Bada 1.x 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 by third parties.[20]
  • Due to "performance and privacy issues", Bada 1.x applications cannot access the SMS/MMS inbox or receive incoming SMS/MMS notifications.[21] This limit is removed since version 2.0.
  • Bada versions 1.x only allowed one Bada third party application to run at a time. Multitasking applications was only possible between the base applications and one Bada third party application.[22] This limit is removed since version 2.0.

Bada 2.0

Bada 2.0 version was shown at IFA 2011 in Berlin and was released in the end of December 2011 with a lot of new functions and improvements respect the version 1.2 introducing features as:

  • Full HTML5 support,
  • WAC 2.0 compatibility,
  • Full multitasking,
  • Wifi-Direct technology
  • Adobe Flash lite 4(mobile Flash Player version, support action script 3.0 of Adobe Flash 10 and 11),
  • Dolphin 3.0 with download manager
  • Smart-wallpapers,
  • Text-to-speech,
  • Speech to text,
  • Vocal commands based on Vlingo,
  • Push notification,
  • NFC (Near-field communication technology),
  • New security policies and protection functions,
  • New camera manager
  • New GUI
  • OpenAL.
  • inclusion of new proprietary application and services as ChatON (instant messaging software), Caster (to share multimedia content and web-page with PC), Music Hub (a music store similar to iTunes)

Devices

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 540 3D graphics engine, "Super AMOLED" screen and 720p high-def video capabilities.[23]

The Samsung S8530 Wave II was made available in November 2010. It has a 3.7" Super Clear capacitive LCD touchscreen. It is preloaded with Bada 1.2.[14]

At the end of 2011, Samsung released three new models with Bada 2.0. The Samsung Wave 3 (S8600) a high-end model featuring 1.4 GHz CPU with integrated Adreno 205 GPU, 4" AMOLED screen and 5MP camera. The Wave M and Wave Y lower-priced models, using slower CPUs, smaller LCD screens, and lacking other features found in the Wave 3.

Market shares

According to Canalys, Samsung shipped 3.5 million phones running Bada in Q1 of 2011.[24] This rose to 4.5 million phones in Q2 of 2011.[25]

According to Gartner in Q1 2012 bada gain a grow index of +43% and rose from 1.9% share of the market in the same period last year to 2.7%. [26]

References

  1. ^ Lextrait, Vincent (January 2010). "The Programming Languages Beacon, v10.0". Retrieved January 5, 2010.
  2. ^ a b Help – Eclipse SDK. Developer.bada.com. Retrieved on June 24, 2012.
  3. ^ "bada: un système d'exploitation pour les cellulaires Samsung". Maximejohnson.com/techno. Retrieved July 7, 2010.
  4. ^ "Samsung To Make Bada OS Open Source And Part Of Your Smart TV". Retrieved September 20, 2011.
  5. ^ Samsung to merge Bada with Tizen: the OS party just got a little freaky. Engadget. Retrieved on June 24, 2012.
  6. ^ Woyke, Elizabeth. Forbes http://www.forbes.com/sites/elizabethwoyke/2012/01/13/samsung-merging-its-bada-os-with-intel-backed-tizen-project/. {{cite news}}: Missing or empty |title= (help)
  7. ^ "Demonstration of Asphalt 5 on a bada phone". Youtube Video. February 26, 2010.
  8. ^ "Samsung unveils new smartphone platform bada". bada.com. December 8, 2009. Retrieved February 3, 2011.
  9. ^ a b "BadaDeveloper Site". bada Developers Site. Retrieved April 7, 2010.
  10. ^ "Samsung Wave, first Bada smartphone hits the market". bada. May 24, 2010. Retrieved February 3, 2011.
  11. ^ http://badawave.com/ bada Wave website
  12. ^ "Samsung Waves away a million". The Inquirer. July 13, 2010.
  13. ^ "Samsung Wave gets an update to Bada version 1.0.2". TechKnots. August 23, 2010.
  14. ^ a b "Samsung announces S8530 Wave II, meet the big-screen edition". GSMArena.com. October 4, 2010.
  15. ^ "Samsung Wave European Launch to Propel Samsung Apps". Samsung Apps. June 1, 2010.
  16. ^ Template:Nl icon Samsung Apps. Samsung Apps. Retrieved on June 24, 2012.
  17. ^ Eric Brown (December 8, 2009). "Samsung's mobile OS SDK ships, runs on Linux". eWeek. Retrieved April 7, 2010.
  18. ^ "Samsung Wave smartphone". The Inquirer. August 9, 2010. {{cite web}}: Italic or bold markup not allowed in: |publisher= (help)
  19. ^ bada VoIP applications finally allowed «. Joernesdohr.com (2011-04-04). Retrieved on June 24, 2012.
  20. ^ "What's so bad about Samsung's bada?". The Register. March 9, 2010.
  21. ^ "bada Tutorial: Communication" (PDF). 2010. Retrieved May 4, 2010.
  22. ^ "Single bada Application Policy". bada Developers Site. Retrieved June 16, 2011.
  23. ^ Segan, Sascha. (2010-02-14) bada's Big: Samsung Announces First bada Phone. Pcmag.com. Retrieved on June 24, 2012.
  24. ^ Estimate: 2.5M Windows Phone 7 Shipments in Q1 – Mobile Technology News. Gigaom.com (2011-05-05). Retrieved on June 24, 2012.
  25. ^ Samsung bada shipments up 355% to 4.5 million units in Q2 2011 | asymco news | PG.Biz. Pocket Gamer (2011-08-03). Retrieved on June 24, 2012.
  26. ^ Worldwide Sales of Mobile Phones
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