Samsung bada Smartphone Gets Leaked [bada Phone to be Available in December?]

Just yesterday we told you about bada which happens to be Samsung’s own open mobile platform. The new OS is supposed to be unveiled at a special event in London next month and that’s when the bada SDK is also supposed to be made available to developers. Naturally we assume that Samsung will take this opportunity to show everyone how the first bada phone in the world will look like.

In fact it looks like the first Samsung bada phone has already leaked and the blogs are starting to pay attention to it already. The phone in the picture above is the device in question. I guess you already expect it to be a touchscreen device and from the looks of it that’s what we’re getting. No exact specifics have been provided so far but since we do have an idea on how Samsung builds its phones we can start speculating on these features.

Samsung will probably include a 3.5- to 4.0-inch AMOLED touchscreen, 3G via UMTS/HSPA support, WiFi, at least a 5-megapixel camera, microSD support, Bluetooth and a TouchWiz-like friendly user interface. Does that sound familiar to you? Well it should since Samsung’s Omnia II sports about the same features. Considering that Samsung plans to impress everyone we assume that the first bada phone will be at least as good as the Omnia II if not better. The phone has to catch on quick in a world that’s still dominated by the iPhone. The Droid is a also a worthy adversary and there are plenty of HTC and RIM phones waiting for you in the shadow of those two smartphones.

So the bada phone will simply have to sweep us off our feet. This is the first leaked photo of the bada phone but there’s plenty of time until December for Samsung to leak more details about this unnamed bada project. After all that’s how you build buzz around any product. Apple did it with its iPhones and so did Motorola with the Droid. Leaked pictures and specs revealed ahead of time are the way to go if you want to grab the public’s attention.