June 3rd, 2010 
Kenneth Linn 
Google isn’t the only company giving away flashy handsets to developers. The Mountain View based firm recently concluded its Google I/O show Stateside and gave away Nexus One, Motorola DROIDS and EVO 4G models. Down in Johannesburg, South Africa, Korean based Samsung passed along the Samsung Wave S8500 to every developer and journalist in attendance. The Wave features Samsung’s new Bada OS and a spokesperson said that more info on upcoming Bada equipped phones will be announced during the third quarter. Samsung pointed out that Bada does not support multitasking. If a third party app is running and and a second one is started, the first app will stop immediately.
A Samsung spokesman told Phone Review that the next Bada model will be similar to the Wave and be priced under $200. The unit after that will be equipped with a physical QWERTY keyboard. The Bada app store will debut in South Africa and 19 other countries and quickly hit a total of 80 countries after just a few months. Like Apple’s removal of all sexually explicit apps from the App Store,Samsung plans on doing the same thing with the manually monitored Bada app store. Also not allowed will be apps focusing on illegal drugs or apps that “incite(s) violence or hate”.Free and paid apps will be offered and credit cards can be used to buy the paid apps although Samsung is working with carriers to hopefully implement some form of carrier billing. The manufacturer hopes to ring up sales of 10 million Bada powered devices this year, doubling to 20 million sold next year as the Bada platform replaces Windows Mobile, Symbian and Android on Samsung models.
Source: Phone Arena
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So I am a new developper in Bada systems ans I am making a little progress I think so just I want to know how to get a phone to test on it? Even if takes me money
I am a new developper and i am makin some progress
but i wanna know how to get a phone to test bada on it? even if cost me money
thank you
Wave does have multitasking! In fact it has real multitasking.
Wave does NOT support multitasking for custom installed applications (this is very frustrating!!!).
For example if you want to play music from application which you have downloaded and play some game (which you also downloaded), at launching game music player will be terminated without prompt or notification.
Wave supports multitasking only between firmware integrated software (or simply said, the applications which comes with phone).
I hope that they will implement multitasking soon, otherwise it is just waste of hardware power.
So it is like the iPhone then correct? Hopefully samsung will implement multitasking throughout the phone because it will need it if it hopes to be a major player in the smartphone industry. My gut tells me they will in coming updates.
Yeah, it is like iPhone.
Multitasking on my Symbian phones exist over 10 years.
Can’t believe that they want to compete and forgot about multitasking on Bada.
I mean this is a must.
I will e-mail them about this, maybe they give me some positive answer…
This is the only thing which is dragging me from buying this phone (hardware is excellent).
“Like Apple’s removal of all sexually explicit apps from the App Store,Samsung plans on doing the same thing with the manually monitored Bada app store.”
No, Samsung’s App Store is not like Apple’s.
Samsung has published a clear policy, whereas Apple refuses to publish any policy and reserves the right to block apps for any reason they want – and we’ve seen where that goes.
Now it will be tempting for Samsung to deviate from their policy and start blocking apps for other reasons, but I think we should give them the benefit of the doubt and assume that the policy is for real until we see otherwise.
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