Samsung bada 2.0 has just been announced on Samsung’s home turf of South Korea, and it’s packing some nifty updates. Top of the list? Near Field Communication (NFC) skills for contact free payments and whatnot, just like Android 2.3 on the Samsung built Google Nexus S Android phone.
We thought Samsung bada was a low key but enjoyable OS on the Samsung Wave when it launched in the Summer, and now it’s set to get a big update to Samsung bada 2.0. Top of the changelog is a new SDK for developers, carrier billing, third party social network integration, and NFC.
NFC is used in technology like the London Underground Oyster system to make contact free payments, and has just been introduced to Android 2.3. Once again, it appears Samsung is cribbing from Google, but we’re not complaining: the more handsets with NFC built in, the quicker we can start paying for our coffee without having to pull out our wallet. Samsung’s claiming it’ll ship 10m Samsung bada handsets in the first half of next year, so fingers crossed it’ll be soon.
Unfortunately, there’s no word of when we’ll be seeing Samsung bada 2.0, or devices running it, but we’d expect to hear and see more at Mobile World Congress in February.
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