Samsung unveils Samsung S8500 Wave as first base Bada OS earphone
Feb 16, 2010 phones
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Mobile River World United States Congress has yet to officially get underway, but that didn’t stop Samsung from taking the early-announcer reward and unveiling the Samsung S8500 Wave as their first ever smartphone powered by the Bada OS. It’s powered by a 1Ghz mainframe, sports a 5-megapixel camera (with flash), and rocks an amazingly crisp and bright Super AMOLED display that measures 3.3-inches on the diagonal. Samsung says they’re all about “democratizing” smartphones by devising them cheap enough for citizenry in walks of life to take a stab at the brave new worldly concern of smartphones, and by the looks of the Wave, they’re off to a goodness start.
The Samsung Bada OS is basically like Samsung’s TouchWiz UI turned into a standalone smartphone OS. Just like its TouchWiz roots, the Bada OS uses widgets. In fact, Samsung refers to this latest iteration of TouchWiz as TouchWiz 3.0. You can customize up to 10 different homescreen panes with the widgets of your selection. The UI feels a draw like Android OS, which isn’t a badness matter.
On the mobile app side of things, Bada OS offers apps ranging from criterion smartphone menu like electronic mail and web browser to media widgets like the YouTube and Video Editor widgets. If that doesn’t quench your hunger for Bada apps, the Samsung Apps memory board volition be standing by, ready to serve up all the apps you tin eat.
Now, the Bada OS is intended to be used on smartphones that are cheap enough to be affordable to people in countries where carrier subsidies ar a wishful pipe dream. But, we rich person a hard meter seeing the Samsung Wave coming in at a monetary value point that would qualify for the first gear-remainder. The Samsung Wave features an incredible 3.3-in WVGA (800×480) Super AMOLED capacitive touchscreen that blows every other smartphone exhibit out of the water system. It has a 1Ghz processor, a 5-megapixel photographic camera (with flash), Bluetooth 3.0, Global Positioning System, 3G data, and a microSD circuit board one-armed bandit that supplements the 2GB or 8GB (depending ont the model) of onboard repositing. Talk about one badass Bada phone.
The Wave is slim, constructed out of aluminium, and has the kind of designing chops that we normally see in high-remainder smartphones. That’s what makes the Wave so surprising as the first base ever Bada OS phone. The earphone is expected to go global in Apr 2010, unless you’re in the US.
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