[Bada Software Development] v1rtu4l:
i find it astounding how arrogant you android fanboys are towards bada.

take any stock android phone and put it up against the wave or the wave II and your android will lose. Bada is very comprehensive out of the box without the need to install 20 apps to it to gain basic functionality.

i honestly thought about getting the galaxy s as successor of my i8910 (s60v5 fyi), but then the opportunity came that i got the wave for free (without contract) so i gave it a shot and since then i never wanted to even touch the galaxy s. a friend of mine was as sceptic as you guys and bought himself the galaxy s so i had plenty of time to play around with it and boy am a happy to have had the wave (talking in the past, because i broke it). i am so happy with bada, that i do not even think about android for my next phone, because i know bada is doing very will, so i am getting the wave II.

i must confess that after the rumours about the nexus s were around and it was said to have a 8mp with led flash i did actually consider it to be my next phone, but as there are enough no-gos with that phone as well i am glad to stay by my choice the wave II.

many android users argue "but you can customize everything and tweak many things" and that was exactly the point that many symbiann fanboys made for their operating system... i was probably the same, but bada really opened my eyes that i do not need that crap customizing, when the phone does everything i need out of the box. no installing of python, flash, java or other frameworks. no installing of 3rd party browsers, no installing of text input help like SlideIT or swype ... everything in bada is already working and even while i enjoyed setting up my phone again and taking a week to customize it again after flashing the new firmware, i do not miss it.

i even find it funny that people argue "but you can not jailbreak it!"... yeah, why break something that already enables you to do everything. i do not need a jailbreak to tether or wifi tether, i do not need a custom app to install apps onto the SD-card, i don't have to wait for the devs to release a new version of my favourite app to make it android 2.2 compatible to make it installable on the expansion card by os-function, i do not need to download a video editor as app, i don't need to install codecs or a player that tries to play divx without hardware acceleration, because everything is already in place, i do not need to download a taskkiller, i don't need to install apps that have to download further data from the internet, because the appstore is restricted to (now a whopping) 50 MB installation packages ... honestly who would want to have to accept those caveats just to have a customizable phone if you can have it right out of the box.

it is no wonder why the iphone got so many users... regardless of how you wanna insult them, it just shows that there is a market for phones with an OS which is not such a friggin mess to configure and tweak until you are satisfied with the user experience. i'd even go so far to say that bada is something inbetween iOS and Android. Surely more userfriendly than android and more customizable than iOS.

but hey, if you're out or arguments than you can still call my a newbie or double-account ...

p.s.: been started with windows mobile 5, then used s60v3, s60v5 for a long time so i am not new to the game