If you are a mobile software developer, and would like design a program that runs on all the mobile OS in the market, you better kill yourself before you start coding. Today, Samsung announced another new “open-source” mobile platform called “bada”. I personally have lost count how many mobile operating system out there in the market, and this OS release from Samsung doesn’t seem like a big breakthrough, although Samsung promises that the “bada” OS will provide simple and intuitive user experiences with innovative visual design.

Bada will be launched in December 2009 and the first bada-powered phone will be available in the first half of 2010. The SDK for the OS will be available soon. For more information, please check bada.com.