Samsung has announced the release of their Software Development Kit for bada 2.0, Samsung's own mobile platform. The operating system is expected to be released next month alongside three new Samsung Wave smartphones.
While most of North America isn't familiar with Samsung's proprietary OS, phones running already running a beta version of bada have a small market presence in Europe and Asia. In the second quarter of 2011, bada accounted for 1.9 percent of all smartphone operating systems in use worldwide, according to a study by Gartner. That still beats out Windows Phone 7 sales.
Bada 2.0 was first shown at the Mobile World Congress in February, featuring a slew of updated software including multi-tasking, access to an app store with about 40,000 applications, NFC support, and HTML5 and Flash functionality.
“Developers have an opportunity to reach a significant customer base with new, entertaining and compelling applications," said JK Shin, president of Samsung’s mobile communications, in a statement.
The SDK is available for download from the bada developer website.
