Samsung will merge bada OS into the Tizen project
Samsung has announced it will merge its own touchscreen OS, Bada, with the Linux-based Tizen OS. According to Forbes, an executive for the South Korean handset giant last week said that there is “an effort that will merge bada and Tizen,” but it was not revealed what its roadmap for this is. Tizen devices will be able to run software created using the bada SDK, Kang said, with existing apps requiring no modification; meanwhile both bada and Tizen developers will use the same SDK and APIs moving forward. The Linux core of the two platforms will also be harmonized. Forbes says that Bada already has a larger share of the global smartphone market than Windows Phone 7. Tizen is an open source Linux-based operating system that rose out of the ashes of MeeGo (which in turn was formed when the Moblin and Maemo products merged).
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