Samsung's plans to turn Bada into a further-reaching mobile OS look set to extent to the lower end of the market, as its budget handsets seem set for a European release.

Announced last week at CommunicAsia, the Samsung Wave 2 and the Wave 2 Pro are handsets designed to service the cheaper end of the scale while still using the brand's new Bada OS - the first of which is the feature-packed Samsung Wave, launched last week.

Initially tipped to only launch in Russia and South East Asia, Samsung's lead on the Bada platform Justin Hong confirmed to TechRadar that the company wants to see these phones land on our shores, with a possible UK release date of August.

Talks with operators

Samsung couldn't confirm that the phones will be landing as yet, but said that the decision still 'depends on operators'.

It did confirm its intent to keep upgrading Bada as well as bring out new lower-cost phones over here.

"One of the great things about the Bada platform is it's so configurable," said Paul Wilkens, marketing director for Samsung Mobile UK.

"We can apply it to the high end Wave, or to the [cheaper] Wave 2 Pro; we can apply it to 2 CPU and 1 CPU devices - other platforms cannot drill down to so many types of phones."