Samsung, the South Korean electronics giant announced that they are working on a new mobile operating system called Bada OS. Samsung currently manufactures mobile phones based on Android, Windows Mobile, Symbian, Limo Linux and few other platforms. The new Samsung Bada OS will be open source, and will have a user friendly interface and architecture that would help developers to write applications much easier. Bada in Korean means Ocean. This name indicates that possibility of the new operating system is limitless .
Samsung also announced that they will be stopping production of phones based on Symbian OS owned by Nokia and plans to reduce the number phones based on Windows mobile. Open source mobile OS platforms are getting popular day by day. Nokia also released some part of the Symbian kernel for open development . But it might be Samsung’s business strategy to make more phones on its on Bada OS platform . We expect the first series of  Bada enabled phones to ship by the first quarter of next year. Screenhsots and features of Samsung Bada OS would be available soon.