Its not easy grabbing a place in a race dominated by Android and iOS. Now with Windows Phone trying to creep in between then, other mobile operating systems are being pushed back. Samsung has decided to merge it's bada OS with Intel's Tizan OS in hopes and improving it's position in the mobile market.Tae-jin Kang - Samsung's Senior VP of Contents Planning who revealed this information, also said that the apps developed for bada will work on Tizen and will be backward compatible with previously published apps. He also said that the two will eventually share the same developer interfaces and roots. By sharing the same SDKs and APIs the hope is that developers who create applications for BADA can also create the applications for Tizen. Samsung hopes to have more than one device running the combined platform available by the end of this year.
Tizen is the successor to Meego which combined Maemo from Nokia with Intel's own Moblin. When Nokia chose to abandon their plans for Meego in favour of Windows Phone, Intel was left to evolve their OS once again but without a mobile partner to take their vision forward.
Currently Tizen is aimed at powering high end smartphones, while BADA is used in Samsung's lower end models. It will be interesting to see how the combination affects Samsung's use of Intel's mobile operating system in their devices in future.