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Samsung announced the Samsung Bada platform last week, a bold move designed to move Samsung phones firmly into the smartphone space. Bada is a whole new mobile technology from Samsung that takes on the iPhone and Android in a head to head battle.

Bada is a mobile operating system designed for smartphones, with support for everything you’d expect from an iPhone-equivalent device: GPS, Web browsing, touchscreen support, and all sorts of sensors, including tilt, GPS, proximity, and even weather!

Better still is Samsung’s strategy – virtually all of their new phones from 2010 onwards will feature Bada, meaning all of Samsung’s range of phones will be smartphones. As Samsung say, Bada will be the basis for a “smartphone for everyone”

Just one problem though – despite a lengthy presentation, Samsung didn’t actually show a Bada phone in action!

Fortunately, we can now put this to rights with these new pics of the Bada interface that have just been unearthed.

More pics after the jump.

With so many super-whizzy touchscreen smartphones to choose from, how do you choose the best smartphone for you?

Simple: read our smartphone buyer’s guide! We’ve identified the 10 essential features that every smartphone should have and distilled them into one huge buyer’s guide that’ll help you choose the best smartphone that’s perfect for you.

PDA phone, smartphone, smart PDA phone – whatever you call it, PDA phones have been the talk of the mobile phone world throughout 2008. There are now tonnes of different PDA phones on the market, and with a bewildering array of phones to choose from, finding the right one has become a nightmare!

To help you through the PDA phone maze, we’ve compiled a little guide to the best smartphones to buy for Christmas 2008.

Browsing the Web on your mobile phone has traditionally been a really bad user experience. Useless keyboard entry, screens that are too small, slow and expensive data rates, and poor content have all made the mobile Web so difficult to use as to be almost useless for all practical purposes except cheating in the pub quiz.

Recently, though, all this has started to change, as a new wave of advanced smartphones have combined with super-fast network technology and forward-thinking mobile operators, which has finally made the mobile Web a reality.

But what do you need to look for in a mobile phone handset to browse the Web effectively?…

The Nokia E90 Communicator that I’ve got my eye on should apparently be in the shops (well, Nokia shops anyway) by the end of July. I know this, because I asked the guy at my local Nokia shop, and that’s what he said!

He also said they will definitely have some in stock for demo, so unlike with Carphone Warehouse, I can actually try before I buy, which I see as slightly important, given that the phone costs £635! Nokia are selling it directly on a Vodafone tarrif, but they’ll also sell it unlocked and SIM-free if that’s your preference.

The saga of my hunt for a smartphone begins. I went into my local Carphone Warehouse today.

“Do you sell the Nokia E90 Communicator?” I asked.

“The what?” was the reply.

“The Nokia E90 Communicator.”

“E90 what? What’s a communicator?”

“It’s a Nokia smarpthone.”

“Never heard of it!”…

Great start! Unfortunately, it gets worse…

Smartphones have become increasingly useful, so much so that I’m after for myself, and so I’ve been doing a bit of research into the market. What I’ve noticed, though, is that despite knowing exactly what I want from a smartphone, there aren’t actually that many that give me what I’m after.

The following smartphone article, then, is a brief discussion of what I’m after, and then one or two rants on why the smartphone market isn’t serving us users as well as it should! Oh, and I’ll also be talking about the two possible contenders that might, just might, give me exactly what I need.

Samsung, the world’s third largest mobile phone manufacturer, have announced the Samsung EW-700, a mobile phone that’s not.

More specifically, the EW-700 features everything most mobile phones do, except the ability to connect to mobile phone networks. Instead, the EW-700 harnesses WiFi to offer full VoIP connectivity whenever you’re near a WiFi hotspot, but omits the seemingly essential GSM/3G connectivity normally expected of a mobile phone.

More details of the Samsung EW-700 smartphone after the jump.

Orange has some tasty looking smartphones that they’re about to release.

Orange have traditionally rebadged HTC’s smartphones in the past, and that trend continues with the Orange SPV-C100 being a rebadged HTC Oxygen; the Orange SPV-F600 being a rebadged HTC STR TRK; the SPV-C700 being a HTC Breeze; and the SPV-M3100 being a HTC Hermes.

Orange will also be selling Samsung’s Blackberry-killer, the Samsung i320.

Details and pictures of Orange’s new smartphones after the jump.

Ever wondered how many companies are currently making smartphones? Probably not, but I’ll tell you anyway! According to Unstrung.com, there are no fewer than 24 separate companies all fighting for dominance in this growing segment.