The final Bada phone was the in late 2011. It ran Bada 2.0. By mid-2012, no new Bada hardware was announced.
: HTML5/CSS/JS. Few games used this because performance was dreadful. A notable exception: Pac-Man (HTML5 demo) , which Samsung showed at MWC 2011 as a tech demo. It stuttered. bada os games
Before Tizen, before One UI, even before the Galaxy S series became the Android giant it is today, Samsung made a bet on itself. In 2010, with the smartphone market split between Apple’s iOS and Google’s Android, Samsung launched Bada OS (meaning “ocean” in Korean). It was a sleek, touch-centric operating system designed to wean Samsung off Windows Mobile and feature phones. And yes—it had games. The final Bada phone was the in late 2011
: The majority. Bada included a Java virtual machine (called Samsung Java VM ) that ran MIDP 2.0 games. Performance was acceptable but laggy for action games. The benefit? Developers could drag-and-drop their existing feature-phone games into the Bada SDK, tweak screen resolution (480x800), and republish. : HTML5/CSS/JS
That was Bada gaming: competent, isolated, and slightly sad. By 2012, Samsung was selling more Android phones (Galaxy S II) than Bada phones. Carriers preferred Android. Developers preferred Android. Even Samsung internally started shifting resources.