Bada - Criticism of Bada 1.x

Criticism of Bada 1.x

• In the beginning, all VOIP over Wi-Fi applications were banned which meant that popular applications such as Skype could not be used. In March 2011 this restriction was removed, allowing VOIP applications to run on the platform.

Some publications have criticized Bada 1.x over the following issues:

• The external sensor API is not open-ended, preventing new types of sensors or unexpected technology developments from being added in the future by third parties.
• Due to "performance and privacy issues", Bada 1.x applications cannot access the SMS/MMS inbox or receive incoming SMS/MMS notifications. This limit is removed since version 2.0.
• Bada versions 1.x only allowed one Bada third party application to run at a time. Multitasking applications was only possible between the base applications and one Bada third party application. This limit is removed since version 2.0.
• Mainstream Applications, such as Whatsapp, are not developed for Bada 1.2, this has not been resolved in Bada 2.0
• GPS facility was poor in the Bada 1.0 which was further updated in Bada 2.0
• Many countries, such as South Africa, still await the release of Bada 2.0