Bada 2.0 Value Pack Firmware Now Available For Wave 525

Wave 525 has now got an firmware update after a long time. As we know all the features of bada 2.0 can't be ported to low end phones like samsung wave 525 so samsung has provied a value pack firmware update which provides some great features of bada 2.0 to your samsung wave.

Chinese Firmware is the Best

The best Bada 2.0 firmware is the Latest Official Chinese Firmware S8xxxZCLB4

Changes to the original Bada 2.0

Added Features

1. First Time the Official firmware has a Call Recording Option Inbuilt So now you can record calls even without the use of any third party software and also this feature works flawlessly.

2.It also has an option in Voice Recoder app to cut your recorded calls or cut your recorded voice the way you want it.

3.There is a Packet data On/Off button also added in the top bar and now the top bar buttons are in the order.

Wifi |Bluetooth|Sound|Data|Auto rotation

4.New Set of wallpapers.In settings –>display there is festive wallpaper option.

5.In call settings Phone No. Locator In Settings–> Call .

6.IP calling (Don’t Know about this feature should be some VoIP thing for Chinese people).

7.Auto silent In Settings –> General

Read all here

Smart phones overtake client PCs in 2011

Canalys released its full, detailed Q4 2011 country-level smart phone shipment estimates to clients, so completing the picture for the year. One notable result was that total annual global shipments of smart phones exceeded those of client PCs (including pads) for the first time. Watch Samsung Bada market share growth in 2011:

Read full article here: Smart phones overtake client PCs in 2011

WAVE 723, Bada 2.0

bada Developer Day 2011 London - Video

Samsung Bada SDK 2.0.3

Samsung released new version of its bada SDK 2.0.3

 You can download it here

Bad news for Samsung Wave 525 owners

Bad news for Samsung Wave 525 owners.

Samsung Wave 525 and Wave 533 will not get the bada 2.0 update, both of which are stuck on the version 1.1.Now Samsung preparing the so called “Value Pack” for these two devices.

“Value Pack” is designed to offer the same bada 2.0 user experience and service as much as possible despite the hardware limitations.

BUT! Two users of Russian portal Badablog.ru said that they are going to work on port Wave 723 version of bada 2.0 for Wave 525. So, maybe, some day we'll get bada 2.0 on our 525..

Bada Evolution: Wave, Wave II and Wave 3 comparison

Samsung: 17% for Bada

Samsung's Smartphones manufacturing plan for 2012:
Bada-phones - 17% of all manufactured phones
Windows Phone - 17%
Google Android - 66%

Bada Developers Day India - Questions and Answers

PDF-file with questions and answers from Bada Developer Day India, held in September this year, appeared in Internet. So, from this answers follows that Samsung is working on a package of business applications for bada (like BlackBerry), they have no plans to create a two SIM-cards smartphone  yet, but everything is possible in the future. The tablets under the bada not expected, 'cause the system is designed for smartphones. More questions and answers can be found here.
By the way, developers can find useful information on certification and developing applications for Samsung bada.

Samsung Wave Y Preview

Samsung Wave M Preview

Samsung Wave 525 Background Change Guide

Many of blog readers ask me HOW TO SET BLACK BG-COLOR. So, if You want to use black background themes, You should follow a few simple steps to change default Samsung Wave settings...

Rumor: Samsung Dropping Android for In-House Linux! Team Cyanosung Maybe! and More

There are no end of rumors flying the Internet and it’s always hard to know whether to pick them up and run with it or simply ignore it as pure and utter garbage. When someone hits you up who you’ve never heard of before and tells you some news that is so big, it could change the face of our community, you never sure what to do. Sometimes I decide to throw the information out to you guys and let you decide what you think! Let you determine if it is true or completely unfounded. I only do this when I can’t make my mind up either way.

IFA 2011 - Video - Samsung Wave 3, Samsung Wave Y, Samsung Wave M

So, we continue to march on the IFA 2011 and here are some videos with the latest - Samsung Wave Y, Samsung Wave M and Samsung Wave 3.

In this video you can see how the NFC sensor - at the application of Wave 578 is the system response and the message. The sample Samsung Wave Y NFC-chip apparently has not been provided.

IFA 2011: Info, Photos, Videos

Russian Bada-site badablog.ru published photos and videos from IFA 2011.

IFA is the world's largest trade show for consumer electronics and home appliances. It takes place from 2 to 7 September 2011 in Berlin.

Samsung Bada 2.0 - What's New?

The newly released bada 2.0 introduces many new and exciting features for developers and users. Here you can see at a glance feature overviews as well as other informative contents of bada 2.0. Each of the documents below will help you understand better and guide you through development.

Grade A for Android and bada, F for Symbian

Tomi Ahonen, expert of mobile technologies, assessment put the "A" to Android and attention ... Samsung bada! The site Telekom Austria has published an article entitled  Expert: Grade A for Android and bada, F for Symbian, in which Tom has studied the reports of four analytical agencies (Gartner , IDC, Canalys & Strategy Analytics), and concluded that Android  and bada proved to be better than its competitors. 

IFA 2011, and New Samsung Teasers

Two new teaser videos of Samsung prepared for the upcoming exhibition IFA 2011, which will begin on 1 September in Berlin, appeared in the Web. we expect that September 1 is the day Samsung will show its new line of smartphones, and we certainly waiting to see new  bada 2.0 based phones.

Here's the first movie and it seems that this one about new Wave III:

And Second Video:

Samsung Wave III: the first country - India?