If platform holders, OEMs and carriers give the impression of being less than enthusiastic about the rise of the web based app revenue from their own respective marketplaces threatened as a result Samsung appears happy to go against the grain.
Delivering a web based application framework is, in fact, one of the firm's major targets for its bada platform when the next major revision of the software version 2.0 rolls out in 2011.
Bada bounce
Indeed, its implementation is just one of eight areas where Samsung is looking improve bada as a whole.
As detailed at a developer event in South Korea, Samsung is also planning to offer operator billing, multitasking and an improved UI.
Whether such additions will be exclusively reserved for bada 2.0 devices, however, or will also appear on existing Wave handsets is unknown.
Regardless, Samsung Hub also reports the tech giant is looking to sell 10 million bada handsets within the first half of 2011 - although its believed such a target might well include sales already made in 2010.
[source: Samsung Hub]
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