Five months ago, many found it hard to imagine the village of Peuken Bada, in Aceh Province, recovering.
The company is also making phones based on Microsoft's Windows Mobile software and its own Bada operating system.
Having failed with its own OS, Bada, it is now a heavy proponent of the open source Tizen.
It produces phones that use Android as well as models that use its own operating system called Bada.
Nokia's Symbian and Samsung's Bada had unfriendly user interfaces, slow browsers and they didn't seamlessly sync with other devices.
What they need is an OS. They know from Samsung and Bada not to develop one of their own.
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Driving this was the worldwide release of its Galaxy S i9000 converged mobile device, as well as its bada-based Wave model.
The medal could now be dedicated to Bada and we're hoping his son could pick up the medal for him instead.
And, grouped in an alcove, 15 works by Bada Shanren (1626-1705) show him to be one of China's most abstruse and inventive artists.
In Peuken Bada, some have given up waiting for the government.
Sadly, the decision came too late for Bada, who died suddenly, of a suspected cardiac arrest, in December 2011, after collapsing at the National Stadium in Lagos.
The South Korean company has rushed to remedy that with its own smart-phone platform, Bada, and by producing mobile phones that use Google's low-cost Android operating system.
Android's share of the global smartphone market has surged from 51 percent to 70 percent over the past year, crushing Symbian, Bada and other platforms in its wake.
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Samsung's bada platform allows mobile users to simply and easily download an abundance of applications from Samsung Apps, an integrated application store accessible from the device and online.
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Sure, Samsung also announced Bada at the end of 2009, but it wasn't until early 2011 when South Korea received its first Bada device, the Wave II.
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Much more study into the nature of the Borrelia bacterium needs to be done before a safe and reliable vaccine for all the strains can be created, BADA UK says.
As IDC points out, Samsung also has its allegiances spread across Android, Windows Phone, and later this year, the Tizen platform, which, like Bada, is also based on Linux.
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While support for Intel and Nokia's misbegotten lovechild is first out the door (along with Linux itself), the company plans to introduce similar versions for Bada, QNX, Symbian, WebOS and Windows.
This is the first mobile handset to be released on Samsung's new, open mobile platform, Samsung bada, and the cornerstone of the company's commitment to provide a smartphone for every lifestyle.
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At the same time Samsung has always harbored ambitions to own its own OS, initially with Bada but now in partnership with Intel on the Linux-based, open source Tizen project.
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The strong implication being that Samsung will use Tizen in place of its former internal Bada operating system, as an internally managed counterbalance to Google and Microsoft, whose operating systems will continue to sit on most of their phones.
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