Samsung Wave with android?

mobius1 · 9 Sep 2010 at 21:29

So I love my Samsung wave but the Bada OS is pretty boring if you compare it to the android OS - anybody know if there's a new OS on the way for this phone at all? Or if you can somehow get android on it? Or maybe new themes perhaps?

Cheers folks

Owenb · 9 Sep 2010 at 21:38

There is no way that it will get Android, at least not officially. I don't believe it has been ported by unofficial developers and I haven't heard of anyone working on it.

mobius1 · 9 Sep 2010 at 21:57

Well that sucks :/

broona · 9 Sep 2010 at 23:04

mobius1 said:
Well that sucks :/

Why? It was never designed to run Android, only Bada, surely you knew that when you bought it? If you wanted an Android phone, then surely you should have bought one? :confused:

Redmelo · 10 Sep 2010 at 10:36

Owenb said:
There is no way that it will get Android

I dont even understand why Samsung bother with Bada.
Its not bad, but it's basically just a rip off from Android and since they support Android themselve it just doesnt make any sense to me. Why invest money in something that is going to be in competition with your own products.

osc89er · 10 Sep 2010 at 10:38

It takes a long time to develop your own OS. By the time they decided that they would support Android the investment in time and money would have been huge. They probably decided it was worth releasing a phone and if they got lucky (it becoming a hit) then they could re-evaluate. Otherwise it would have been a case of throwing away all that investment.

CaptainFail! · 11 Sep 2010 at 14:38

Since theres no sign of a firmware update release for it that would use android then, any way to hack it similarly to jailbreaking an iphone/ipod etc.?

EDIT: forgot to sign in with my own account :S - mobius1

reflux · 11 Sep 2010 at 16:38

The phone uses similar hardware to the Galaxy S iirc, so porting Android shouldn't be too bad. But I don't know really.