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Samsung Electronics announced the launch of BADA, a new open mobile platform promising developers the tools to create applications optimized for millions of devices across the handset maker’s smartphone portfolio. According to Samsung, bada–which translates to “ocean” in Korean–draws on the company’s experience in building proprietary platforms, guaranteeing a developer-friendly environment emphasizing the creation of web-based applications. Samsung also touts bada’s user interface, which it says can be transferred into a sophisticated UI design for developers.

Samsung offered few additional specifics on bada, but said the new platform will tie directly to its Samsung Application Store, which opened in September. Samsung said it will release the bada software development kit in December in conjunction with an official launch event taking place in London.

Source: Fierce Wireless

It’s amazing what can happen in one year. Before Apple launched the iTunes App store, there was no such thing as the “mobile app store economy.” It was limited to a few vendors such as Handango, who controlled the small mobile software distribution market.

Now, most mobile operating systems have their own app store, and phone manufacturers are attempting to open stores with their own devices in mind. Samsung earlier announced it will launch an on-device smartphone app store in Europe on September 14. The company has already put up a placeholder for its app store, and downloads will be available to the Omnia and the I8910 HD. Samsung says support will be added on the Omnia II and OmniaLITE at a later date.

Have come to know from my sources, Samsung is planning to launch the India appstore on 14th September as well. Is it going to be as successful as Apple’s itunes store ?

As for the App Store, the Samsung Store will initially offer 300 applications with the number increasing to 2000 by year-end. From Samsungapps.com users would soon be able to purchase applications by credit card. There will also be an option to buy them over the air with the charges being credited to the user’s phone bill. Another option that will be offered is an inbuilt application on the phones that would enable downloads over Wi-Fi/GPRS/3G.

Tata Teleservices, one of India’s fastest-growing telecom service providers, has unveiled its first mobile web browser, fully optimized for mobile Internet, in association with Samsung Telecommunications India on ‘Samsung Explore’—a sleek feature-rich handset priced at Rs 5,499.

This new-age browser is designed to provide mobile users a web experience at speed 3-4 times faster than GPRS, with access to all websites.

With this bundled offer, Tata Teleservices hopes to garner a higher market share in value-added services and subsequently increase its subscriber base from 2 million right now.

Tata Indicom’s web browser is available on the ‘Samsung Explore’ handset and its mobile Internet offer comes at prices ranging from Rs 10 per day to Rs 99 for a month, with unlimited Internet access.

The Tata Indicom mobile web browser, powered by Novarra Inc, can be easily downloaded on BREW-enabled handsets.

Source: Mint 

The SGH-U700 HSDPA mobile phone from Samsung Electronics has won the European Mobile Phone 2007-2008 award by the European Imaging and Sound Association (EISA). The award recognises excellence in handset design and technology innovation.

Source: EFYTimes

If you’re carrying a Motorola mobile phone the chances are you are under 24 and fashion conscious.

But if you’ve got a Nokia in your pocket (or briefcase), it’s a fair bet you might be a family-minded, middle-aged manager.

Sony Ericsson handsets are favoured by ambitious young men trying to make their mark; LGs are tops with mums; while Samsungs are wielded by young women focused on their career, a study of mobile phone usage shows.

The survey was conducted by Panorama and released by Nielsen Media Research.

What your mobile phone says about you:

Nokia

Family-minded
Middle aged managers
Balance seekers
Health conscious

Motorola

Fashion conscious
Under 24
Fun seekers
Individualistic

Sony Ericsson

Ambitious young men
Professionals
Success driven
Individualistic

LG

Favourite of mums
Stay-at-home parents
Success driven
Harmony seekers

Samsung

Young women
Career focused
Success driven
Fun seekers

Link: Stuff.co.Nz

Source: Nielsen Media Research

The F700 is part of Samsung’s new Ultrasmart line of phones and sports 7.2 Mbps HSDPA, a 5 megapixel shooter, your typical media functionality, Bluetooth, 2.78 inch touchscreen display, and a slick looking interface designed by Adobe.

Source: Punckickinteractive

Samsung Electronics , a leading provider and innovator of mobile phones, launches the world’s first mobile phone featuring an optical joystick for a whole new mobile experience.Samsung ‘s latest ‘Optical Joystick’ Phone (Model: SCH-V960 ) is suited with the latest technology that may revolutionize the way users interact with the menu and user interface of mobile handsets. Users utilize the optical joystick key by placing their finger and moving a cursor to navigate through the menu, similar to a cursor of a mouse on a PC .

Optical sensors will read and react to users’ finger movement, thus breaking down the traditional four-way menu navigation and providing 360 degrees of freedom. The familiarity and free movement of the V960′s Optica l Joystick will result in quick and hassle-free menu navigation.

Source: Samsung Press Release

Samsung Electronics Co. Ltd. has introduced a 1 GB subscriber identity module (SIM) card solution, S-SIM, that expands customer experience in multimedia intensive services.

Negating the need of carrying a separate memory card, Samsung’s 1GB S-SIM incorporates a system-in-package (SiP) technology to carry high gigabit-density NAND flash memory without growing the area size of the conventional SIM card. The small form factor supports the compact size of multimedia phones.

The new SIM solution provides added convenience to the user. High data storage capacity with tighter security features ensures safer transmission of personal information and data.

The added memory on the security tight SIM solution improves the user experience. Data intensive files such as multimedia messaging, e-mail, digital photos and video, music files and online gaming are among the features now capable with this SIM solution.

Samsung’s new S-SIM is based on SIM interface to ensure compatibility with conventional systems and supports high-speed MultiMediaCard and USB interface for faster transmission of larger data volumes.

Related Link : SAMSUNG 1GB Multimedia SIM Card Supports Mobile Multimedia Environment ( Samsung press release)