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This is 2.0 and Bada's been around a couple years already. For now, it's more low end than Android, but Samsung's reach is huge these days and I'm sure they privately see it as a nice contingency plan and bargaining chip to balance against Android, as the technologies and business relationships evolve.

I doubt Google will try to take things more vertical with Motorola, but it's one possible scenario where Samsung will be pleased to have a headstart should they need to put another OS on their leading devices.