Samsung Wave 523 and 533 owners, Sammy won’t be upgrading your handset to bada 2.0. However, the company will be releasing a “Value Pack” upgrade for your handset sometime soon.

Samsung is planning to make Bada an open source platform in 2012, in a bid to make it more popular among developers.

Samsung is expected to launch a few new devices at its Samsung Unpacked event at IFA, Berlin on September 1. Some details of the devices – Galaxy Tab 7.7, Galaxy Note and Wave 3 – were leaked today.

Samsung announces Bada 2.0 SDK. New features for developers, same old for consumers.

The Bada 2.0 firmware for the original Samsung Wave has been leaked. It comes with some new features such as the new UI, the drag-down widgets screen, Music and Social hubs, the revamped gallery with stacked albums and so on.

The original Samsung Wave has got a less than fully functional build of Android 2.2 Froyo.

The Samsung Apps store for Bada smartphones and TVs has over 13,000 apps and games now. It just crossed 100 million downloads.