Samsung Bada OS 1.2 Free Update for Samsung Wave S8500 via KIES Software
After more than 6 months of delay, Samsung has finally issued the official and free Samsung Bada OS 1.2 update for the original Samsung S8500 Wave mobile phone owners. This announcement was first tweeted by Samsung India and it sure should make a lot of Indian customers happy. Many people who bought the the first-gen badaOS flagship phone have been complaining that although the company released the Samsung Bada OS 1.2 upgrade last November together with Samsung Wave II S8530, the company seemed to have forgotten them.
Original S8500 Wave owners finally gets their long-waited for badaOS 1.2 update. Sorry, this one's KIES only and no OTA update is possible.
Samsung Bada OS Competition Gives Away Free Samsung Wave S8500 Plus $2.7 Million Cash Prize
Ready to create money by developing apps for Samsung Bada OS? Samsung announced that they will be giving away total prize money of $2.7 Million to the winners of its Bada OS Developers Challenge. The contest is open to all interested programmers. The biggest money goes to the Grand Prize winner who will receive a whopping $300,000!
Samsung Bada OS is a New Mobile Operating System for Smartphones
Samsung is betting huge on its core smartphone business with Samsung Bada OS. This is Samsung’s own operating system for smartphones where Samsung Wave S8500 is the first mobile phone that will ever use this OS. They unveiled this in-house operating system last December 2009. Perhaps dissatisfied with the current Google Android-mania, Samsung said it is pushing through with the development of the Bada operating sytem. The electronics giant is fully committed to the implementation of Bada. They made the Software Development Kit for Bada available to the public and initiated a Developers Challenge for Bada app developers. The winners will share the prize money totaling $2.7 million. This is a proof of Samsung’s commitment to Bada OS.
Samsung Bada OS: Samsung's Own Operating System for Mobile Phones
Unlocked Samsung Wave S8500: First Smartphone with Bada OS
Samsung launched its first ever Samsung Wave S8500 mobile phone sporting the Samsung-created Bada operating system (OS). This new model, Samsung Wave S8500, is appropriately-named since Bada means “ocean” in the Korean language. Samsung has proclaimed Bada OS as the world’s best mobile operating system which they decided to produce because of their current dissatisfaction over other mobile operating systems like Windows Mobile 6.5 (read the review of this OS, click on the link to the article for more details).
Samsung Wave S8500 Mobile Phone Sample Photo