Samsung releases Bada SDK in advance of first Bada phone

ComScore's most recent MobiLens market data ranks Samsung as the top mobile original equipment manufacturer in the United States with 21.9% of the mobile market, a tie with Motorola.

Samsung is attempting to use its lead to advance its own open mobile operating system, called Bada, which the company launched back in November. In February, Samsung started showing off its first device running Bada, the 3.3-inch super AMOLED-eqipped Wave, but the device has not been released yet.

So in advance of the device, Samsung this week made the first version of the Bada SDK available for download to registered Samsung developers. Bada's development environment is based on C and C++, whereas the iPhone's programming language is Objective-C, and Android's is Java (although the Android NDK allows C/C++ coding).

Samsung says the SDK includes: an integrated development environment, Simulator, UI builder, sample applications, documentation, and tutorials.

The Bada SDK beta can be downloaded from the Bada Developer site.