Samsung claims bada phones will use multi-touch

13th December, 2009 by Adina
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Samsung has provided some feature details of the bada mobile platform in advance of the SDK release. Every device will sport a high specification, having a multi-touch wide VGA screen with an about 800×480-pixel resolution as a minimum for interface, as well as Wi-Fi, GPS and 3G connectivity.

The software can accept layers and have its own interface. The TouchWiz 3.0, a yet unreleased version of a custom interface also present on Omnia II and other Windows Mobile phones should run on the first bada handset from Samsung. The interface should support some extra features like face detection, general activity sensors and fine-grained control of vibrations and, as an open design, it will allow developers to access down the contact and phone services. The first bada phone should be available in the first half of next year, according to Samsung, and more models should be expected later.

The fact that bada will have to struggle not only with strong competitors outside of Samsung, like iPhone, but also within the company’s own line-up is already notorious. Samsung is still expected to ship handsets using Symbian, Android and Windows Mobile over another few years and it is not clear enough how many of its phones will be using the in-hose operating system bada versus other systems provided by other producers.


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