A tipster told us that Samsung’s forthcoming Bada operating system may be based off Nucleus RTOS or Nucleus OS, an embedded real-time operating system that is developed by Mentor Graphics. Although Samsung had announced the Bada name and its intentions with a multi-platform strategy, the firm has not to this day detailed the mysteries behind Bada.

Transforming Feature Phones Into Smartphones

The Nucleus RTOS/Bada strategy will definitely help transform some of Samsung’s feature phones into smartphones, allowing multi-tasking and also enabling the company to run its proprietary UI (TouchWiz) on top of the OS. Site CareAce mentions, “Samsung has been using the Nucleus OS on a good number of Touch phones including the multi-million seller Samsung Jet. There are some advantages of using the OS. It allows multitasking capability and having TouchWiz UI running on the OS.” Add to that what a Samsung executive has been saying about Bada and you will get the strength behind Mentor Graphic’s Nucleus core and the Bada operating system:

“Additionally, one Samsung director mentioned that “devices having open platform bada is categorized into smartphone, even though it is normal phone.” and “a lot of bada devices will be shown starting from the early next year.”

(via: tipster and references from CareAce)