This new Smartphone developed by Samsung could be the next phone for you. The Samsung S8500 Wave is packed with features. The body is visually appealing with its thin and light metal chassis and 10.9mm waist, and no space has been wasted around its brilliant 3.3-inch tempered glass touchscreen. The Wave runs on the Bada operating system. Combine this powerful operating system with TouchWiz 3.0 technology and you have a highly functional device at your disposal.
The Wave, unlike other TouchWiz devices, works amazingly well, with almost no lag. This could be due to the operating system of the phones. “Bada” in Korean means ocean. Wave certainly reflects this by running very smoothly from screen to screen, whether you’re performing regular functions or browsing the web. The phone also houses its 1 GHz CPU which no doubt plays its part in the high performance of the phones.
Visually Wave is nothing short of spectacular and its ability to generate a high resolution image is remarkable. The phones’ AMOLED capacitive touch screen with WVGA resolution generates a very clear image displaying up to 16 million colors. Samsung has even given the screen an oleophobic glaze to prevent those pesky fingerprint smudges left behind after use.
The Samsung S8500 Wave offers some upgrades from previous TouchWiz devices. With the TouchWiz 3.0 user interface, you now have the option to have multiple home screens and all your widgets are now gathered in a small field at the bottom of the screen. The main menu usually consists of numerous pages, and its icons can now be adapted to suit your own needs.
Another fine element thrown into the mix involves the phone book app. With the Ultimate Phonebook feature, it’s at your fingertips to see all your emails from all your inboxes together in one Ultimate Inbox. In addition, by using the phone book, you can link contacts to your instant messengers and stay up-to-date with their online activities and status updates through the SNS (Social Network Service) function, this gives you the option to contact your friends. in multiple formats, such as Facebook, Twitter, MySpace Google Talk and Skype.
The Samsung Wave also offers a pretty good web browsing experience; Dolphin Browser 2.0 is compatible software and is generally based on WebKit. Page loading and scrolling are reasonably fast and with the multi-touch feature that comes with the UI, the pinch-and-zoom feature comes in handy when looking at images. To reduce the chances of accidentally entering links, you must double-tap a link to activate it.
Samsung has given Bada Smartphone an app store similar to Apple’s app store and Google’s Android market. Samsung Apps will offer numerous applications for games and other functions; this will help keep them competitive in the smartphone market.
The S8500 has a standard 5-megapixel camera that has LED flash and autofocus built in, it’s pretty basic but simple and easy to use, despite being pretty mainstream, it’s capable of shooting 720p HD video. The Super AMOLED display is well within its limits when it comes to playing HD video files, in various formats like DivX, Xvid, and H.264.
The music player on the Samsung Wave gives you a very nice interface to work with when organizing and playing your songs, the sound quality when played through headphones is crisp and very clear. The device has 2 GB internal memory with a built-in micro SD slot so you have plenty of potential space for your media files.
In short, the Samsung S8500 Wave will have little trouble applying some heat to its competitors in the smartphone market. He has all the credentials to go far and will be in many pockets by the end of the year.