Samsung May Combine Bada Operating System With Tizen Software
January 18, 2012, 7:40 PM ESTBy Jun Yang
Jan. 18 (Bloomberg) -- Samsung Electronics Co., the world’s largest smartphone maker, said it may combine its Bada mobile- phone operating system with the Intel Corp.-backed Tizen software under development.
“We are carefully looking at it as an option to make the platforms serve better,” Suwon, South Korea-based Samsung said in a statement today.
The comments follow a Forbes report that said efforts to merge Bada with the open-source Tizen operating system are under way, citing Tae-Jin Kang, senior vice president of Samsung’s content-planning team. Tizen will support mobile applications written with Bada’s software after the integration, the magazine reported on its website.
Samsung, the biggest seller of mobile devices running Google Inc.’s open-source Android software, uses Bada in some of its lower-end smartphones.
Executives from companies including Intel Corp., Samsung, NTT DoCoMo Inc. and Vodafone Group Plc formed the Tizen association on Jan. 1 to support development of the open-source software. The software development groups LiMo Foundation and Linux Foundation said in September they will jointly develop Tizen for use in a range of devices from mobile phones to televisions.
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