Samsung Wave shipping with a virus. UK market is safe
By Dean • Jun 7th, 2010 • Category: Industry News
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The Samsung Wave, which has just gone on sale, has been reported to be shipping with a Trojan virus. It has been confirmed that the UK market is not one of the territories affected.
UK market is fine
The Samsung Wave, which is the South Korean company’s first phone to ship with its Bada operating system, was discovered to have a Trojan on the microSD out of the box in Germany by TechRadar. Samsung, responding to an inquiry by the technology site, reassures UK users that it does not affect the territory, saying, ‘To be absolutely clear – this problem does not and did not affect the UK’.
Vodafone, who are the UK’s Samsung Wave carrier, reaffirmed this by saying that there is zero possibility of the Waves in Britain carrying the virus since their ‘phones do not come with a bundled microSD card’.
Bada bing bada bang!
This is not the start the South Korean company would have wanted for either its Samsung Wave smartphone or its proprietary Bada mobile operating system. When Bada was announced, we were down on it because we felt it was counter to where mobile OS platforms were moving, by being proprietary instead of third-party standard.
This is based on the belief that, especially for application development and proliferation, a few ubiquitous third-party platforms like Google Android (and potentially Windows Phone 7 Series) are better than many fragmented first-party mobile OS platforms.
Sure, RIM, Apple and even Nokia, to some extent, are exceptions to this rule, with their BlackBerry, iPhone OS and Symbian/MeeGo platforms, but Samsung would be better served to stick to the HTC approach of making great handsets and letting Google’s licensed OS do the heavy software lifting for them.
Tags for this article: Samsung Wave, smartphone
