Samsung Bada: Based on TouchWiz, $2.7 meg in prizes for developers, more selective information soon
Dec 8, 2009 phones, retweet, twitter
Samsung has just announced more information about their usage operating organization called “Bada“. It volition be based on Samsung’s TouchWiz user interface that we see today deployed across their wide portfolio of feature phones, Windows Mobile devices, and the Symbian powered i8910 HD. Samsung is also announcing a $2.7 meg prize fund that volition carapace out prizes for up to 300 developers who create applications that fit into one of nine different categories; the largest trophy is $300,000. Twitter, Blockbuster, CAPCOM, EA Mobile River, and Gameloft ar at the outcome and pledging their support to the Bada platform.
There volition be a live video stream of the event start at 12:15 Greenwich Mean Time which you tin follow here. As more information is released, this blog post volition be updated. Stay tuned!
[Photo above live tweeted by @recombu]
Some quotes from the pressure liberation:
“To enhance creativity and user interactivity, Samsung bada provides flashgun controller, vane control, movement sensing, mulct-tuned vibration controller, and face detection. Also, it supports detector-based, context-aware applications. By using various sensors such as accelerometers, sway, weather condition, proximity, and activeness sensors, application developers can easily implement context-aware interactive applications.” “Samsung bada differentiates its situation by supporting various service-centric features such as sociable networking, gimmick synchronization, subject management, location-based services, and commercialism services – all supported by backrest-end bada servers. These priming-breakage developer-friendly features support developers to implement various services without additional effort.” “Applications tin use device functions to shuffle phone calls, send messages, or access the contact list. Also, various overhaul applications tin contribution selective information such as personal profiles, social relations, schedules, or table of contents with a simpleton user substantiation in ordering to provide services with greater personal relevance and cooperative overhaul extension.”
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