A number of you Samsungers are probably anticipating the snazzy Wave 578 due out in May or June outside the U.S., however the sad news is it won’t be shipped with the approaching Bada 2.0 OS. Fret not, though, as Russian blog Bada World claims to have obtained some juicy details that’ll cheer up Bada fanatics. The above slide — apparently sourced from a Samsung France conference from a couple of days ago — lists a couple of recent but unnamed handsets that’ll pack the brand new software, in addition to 7.2Mbps HSDPA, Bluetooth 3.0, and the seemingly trendsetting NFC . The variation between these two phones? Considered one of them seems to be the flagship Bada 2.0 model, which expects a September launch with a three.65-inch HVGA display, a 5 megapixel main camera, plus a VGA secondary camera. The second one device will follow a month later, sporting a smaller 3.14-inch QVGA screen and only a 3 megapixel imager.
In related news, TNW India reports that Bada 2.0 may be “first experienced in India” around July, though no hardware is mentioned here. This might imply that existing Bada users in India — where Samsung’s R&D develops 30 percent of Bada applications — could be one of several first to procure the two.0 update, and it shouldn’t be long before the remainder of the arena get their share of this piping hot pie. Anyhow, be rest assured that we’ll keep our eyes peeled open for more Bada 2.0 news — it’ll be interesting to determine where Samsung’s next big push will take us.
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