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Originally Posted by gerbick View Post
I can't say that those numbers are impressive to me.
Perhaps not, but Samsung is in no hurry with Bada, and Samsung is only gradually widening the distribution. Bada is their new "dumbphone"-OS. It will gradually take over for older devices like their dumbphone touch screen phones which sell much more than their Android devices.

IMO Bada is the next generation smartphones OS. A platform with a C++ API running on a modern multitasking, multicore RTOS as the application OS. It also has full Java support, and from 2.0, also html5 and NFC, full multitasking etc. Fully scalable, from the cheapest HW to the most fancy, lightening fast and due to the RTOS - unbelievable battery capacity. My 1 GHz Wave 8500 last a week with moderate use and standby time of almost a month. Utilizing the CPU at full speed (gaming) it will of course last as long (or short) as any other smartphone.

It is this path Nokia wanted to go, and hoped to go with Symbian/Qt. Maemo/MeeGo never had a place in that path. What will happen with WP remains to be seen, it looks very high(ish) end to me, certainly nothing like Bada.

I am sure Nokia/WP will be cool phones, but how they are going to compete with Bada is a mystery to me.