Samsung officially retiring Bada, will make Tizen phones instead

We've assumed the fact for awhile and we've even heard, but this time it's official.

Samsung is sacking its Bada OS but instead of sweeping its remains under the carpet, the Korean manufacturer will integrate its work on Bada OS into the Tizen OS project. The information comes straight from Korea, courtesy of Hong Won-pyo, President of Samsung's Media Solutions Center.

Though smartphones running on Bada won't be able to upgrade to Tizen when it's ready, the latter will be backwards compatible with Bada apps, which is good news for every new OS with a low profile app catalog.

After Nokia and Intel's MeeGo's promising start and saddening downfall, Tizen OS was formed as an open source project. Now Samsung is focusing on using Tizen OS as a platform, which can differentiate the manufacturer from the rest of the Android and Windows Phone crowd.

Samsung has expressed that it will release multiple devices running Tizen this year.

Source (in Korean) | Via

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