Samsung Wave S8500 – A Smartphone for the New Decade
The newly-unveiled Samsung Wave S8500 will be the first Samsung handset to be launched on the company’s new open mobile platform, Samsung Bada. There has been some excitement leading up to the launch with Samsung spokesmen stating that the Samsung Bada Platform ‘is truly representative of Samsung’s dedication and commitment to providing a smart-phone for each and every lifestyle’. The Wave S8500‘s screen display features the new and currently all-the-rage AMOLED display technology and measures 3.3-inches, affording the user excellent clarity as well as extremely sharp colour high resolution display of 800×480 pixels WVGA.
Aside from the excellent sharpness the display is also far less prone to being affected by reflection, making it ideal for most conditions. It also comes equipped with Samsung’s DNIe screen technology. Samsung also employs the use of this screen technology in their range of LCD and LED televisions, and it certainly gives the user excellent free viewing angles as well as prefect still-image and motion display on the screen. The Wave also comes equipped with an integral 5.0 megapixel camera which also features an extremely useful LED flash, enabling the user to take very good quality shots in a range of different lighting conditions. With some phones in the class not featuring a flash at all this is a very useful and welcome addition and is sure to add to its overall appeal.
The Wave S8500 also packs the Social Hub, which has undergone a major development and design process in order to completely integrate all major e-mail, SNS and instant message services directly on the handset. Alongside this the TouchWiz 3.0 UI feature gives the user fantastically fast and responsive text messaging as well as excellent screen-control management.
The device’s TouchWiz 3.0 UI allows easy and fast messaging and on-screen control management. Entering text is joyfully pain-free and the system makes it highly intuitive and predictive, resulting in far fewer input errors and saving time.
Samsung have actually worked on the TouchWiz facility, actually enhancing it in this device in order that the user can gain full and complete access to the whole spectrum of social networking sites. You can also change the homepage layout, customising it to your own preferences. The phone can even be employed as a full multimedia player and can also instantly share photographs with friends and family, excellent when considering the great connectivity to social networking sites previously mentioned. You can also use these images to customise your homepage, adding a further personal touch to your phone.
The Wave also utilises the Quick Panel feature, giving users the ability to quickly sift and arrange applications onto one screen. This is very handy when tying things together in one place – especially for business purposes. The Wave uses a 1GHz internal processor and it delivers fast running speeds and excellent, unhindered graphics. The processor also contributes to the excellent responsiveness of the Wave’s touchscreen.
It is also an impressive device for music, too, and features multi-codec support for a variety of file formats including MP4 and WMV. There is also integral support for virtual 5.1 surround sound which, when employed, kicks sonic delivery into a different mobile dimension altogether. You can also record videos and there is Bluetooth and Wi-Fi connectivity. Another very interesting feature of the Wave is that, employing the Bada Platform, it is easy to download a wide range of applications from the Samsung Apps site. Samsung Apps is indeed a rich resource and when employed in such a stylish and feature-packed device it will be fascinating to see just what competition it provides for Apple and its currently better-known Apps platform. The Wave is currently slated for release in April 2010.
