www.WirelessFederation.com/news: First Bada phone has been commercially launched by Samsung Electronics under the brand name, WAVE in European countries, including Germany, France and the UK, and will be expanded to Southeast Asia, China, the Middle East, Africa, and Latin America. The handset is priced at S8500 and is the first smartphone based on Samsung's new, open smartphone platform, Bada. Samsung Apps will also be made available by the company available in eighty countries while it is already available in a number of countries for Windows Mobile or Symbian based phones.