Posts Tagged ‘Samsung Bada’

Samsung, one of the premiere makers of LCD, LED and Plasma televisions, is reportedly pondering whether to build televisions that use the Google Android operating system. This is the Google dream, to get their Android operating system to become a spinal cord for web connected televisions around the world, and was part of their recent announcement of Google TV. The problem is that there isn’t a whole lot of detail on exactly how some elements of the new service will work. Some of the features seem to require typing, and unless Samsung is shipping LCD TVs with a wireless keyboard, it’ll probably end up awkward and unused. We take a look at the possibilities after the jump.

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We recently had a chance to see Samsung’s Bada platform running on one of their LED TVs at the Casual Connect conference. We were shown the user interface for users to browse applications (the television was wired to an ethernet connection, no wireless yet) and saw a demonstration of a quick, quirky game. The word on the street these days is that while television companies thought that this would be the year of 3D TVs, Google’s announcement of Google TV has changed everything. TVs are now all about apps.

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