Back in January last year we reported that Tae-jin Kang, Samsung’s VP of Content Planning stated that his company was planning to merge bada OS with Intel’s Tizen. This merger came after Intel’s failed plans to merge their platform with Meego, which Nokia later dropped in favor of Windows Phone.
Now Hong Won-pyo, Samsung’s Media Solutions Center states that bada is not a fit for today’s smartphones and that Tizen will no longer be merging with bada. Samsung plans to released a number of Tizen powered devices this year and these handsets will take over some of the useful features of bada once they are released.In the future Tizen phones will be able to run apps designed for bada, but older bada handsets will not be updatable to Tizen. It is still not clear what Samsung plans with the Tizen platform. There have been rumors that Samsung wants to distance itself from Android. Given its recent success with its Galaxy series, we are curious to see how the manufacturer will address a Android free ecosystem.
source – Yonhapo News Agency | The Verge | Engadget