Interesting times for Samsung
Recently, I was working on a new platform by Samsung called Bada, Korean for Ocean…and boy what a fun time I had in developing an application for the Bada platform, using C++. It was quite a simple and trivial to code under it and had immense pleasure playing with the SDK. Bada promises to be an open source platform for development efforts. Well… there’s Android/Java, there’s iPhone/Objective C, WinMobile/.NET, now there’s Bada/C++, quite understandably, they are trying to muscle in on the market in having their own application store, very much so that they recognize the potential and effort.
From a developer’s viewpoint, the Samsung’s Bada SDK has been quite interesting, and is still in early beta release, meaning there’s a few glitches, missing essentials such as C++’s STL and exception handling … heh…
I spent a while familiarizing myself with the interfaces, angles from the C++ perspective, tool-chains etc., learning Eclipse IDE, it was a interesting journey… Their handsets that powers Bada is the Wave handset (S8500) which is now in the shops by 3, Meteor, Vodafone and O2.
Have not yet acquired the handset, but judging from the specifications it looks cool, powered by a 1Ghz Arm8 Cortex chip, with Super Amoled display – meaning, no smudges and finger-prints, 5Mega-pixel camera, GPS, Wifi, a touch-screen that resembles an iPhone’s interface.
See here for the full specifications and read it..
Now, on to the Application Store specifically for the bada handsets, the app-store is where the developers make money by publishing an application and put it up on-line for a selling, in which the proceeds are split between Samsung and the developer, i.e. 30:70 split, meaning the developer gets 70% of the proceeds, 30% goes to Samsung.
Now I have not tried this yet, but intend to do so later on, the reason it’s attractive is there’s a decent SDK which I have put under a test and hammered it, sure it’s still in beta, sure the sdk targets Windows, there’s a Linux version in the pipeline.
So watch this space and see what happens.
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July 2, 2010 5:36 pm 1 Comment
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By Dronablo, July 19, 2010 @ 10:07 am
it was very interesting to read.
I want to quote your post in my blog. It can?
And you et an account on Twitter?