Bada 2.0 announced officially

Samsung has revealed the future of its Bada platform, with Bada 2.0 promising a whole bag of smartphone updates.
Despite of world running behind Android and iOS, Samsung is still focusing on improving its Bada operating system. Samsung has confirmed that it will be launching Samsung Bada 2.0 in
 first quarter of 2011, which will have vastly  improved user interface(UI)

and NFC (Near Field Communication) support  on the lines of Google Nexus S.
Furthermore the other noticeable features will be updated SDK support for Linux, Unix and Mac platforms,
Multitasking, better Social networking integration, Operator billing (ahh!), ad gateway and Security
enhancements.
Bada 1.2 will be available in Q1 of 2011.2

Samsung has not  confirmed whether the Bada OS 2.0 will be for new devices only, or if existing Bada smartphones will get updated to 2.0.

Samsung has also announced its plans that they are on target to sell a total of 5 million Bada OS smartphones by the end of 2010, they have also set for  themselves a target of selling 10 million Bada smartphones in the first half of 2011, which doesnot seem unbelievable seeing the sales of WAVE 1 s8500.We will update when it is available for download..

UPDATE: Bada 2.0 launch is announced and India will be the first country to get it . Read here for details