First look : Samsung S8500 Wave preview

Enter a new platform. With a boom. With a bang. A Bada affectionate of bang. Another of the big accoutrements wants to comedy by their own rules. Samsung’s additional atom in all-around bazaar allotment was adamantine fought but it will be a while afore they as abundant as ambition the aforementioned for the Bada. They’ve been a constant innovator over the aftermost brace of years but accepting babyish Bada up and active charge be actually a challenge.

The Samsung S8500 Wave is Bada’s carrier barge and it actually looks interesting. It seems to accept the appropriate affair to accomplish it newsworthy: abbreviate contour and an actually attractive screen. But is it abundant to accomplish it a success?

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Samsung S8500 Wave official photos

Over the accomplished years new touchscreen platforms accept been overextension like bonfire but not all of them accept managed to bolt on as able-bodied as their developers charge accept been hoping. Android fares able-bodied but still hasn’t actually affected its growing pains, while the able-bodied acclimatized Symbian belvedere is still advancing to agreement with touchscreen.

Update 05 March: We accustomed a additional Wave assemblage afterwards this examination was originally published. The new sample had a appropriately alive camera and comes with the final architecture of the artefact (some slight changes). We've adapted best of this commodity to bout the added contempo device. We've replaced the photos and the screenshots additional we've added new sections on the camera and the preinstalled applications. Accept a attending around!

Samsung S8500 Wave at a glance

* General:GSM 850/900/1800/1900 MHz, UMTS 1900/2100 MHz, EDGE chic 10, HSDPA 7.2 Mbps and HSUPA 2 Mbps

* Form factor:Touchscreen bar

* Dimensions:10.9 mm thin

* Display:3.3" 16M-color Super AMOLED capacitive touchscreen with 480 x 800 pixels resolution, scratch-resistant bottle surface

* Platform: Bada OS

* CPU: 1 GHz processor

* Memory: 2GB centralized memory, microSD agenda slot

* Camera: 5-megapixels auto-focus camera, 720p video recording

* Connectivity: Wi-Fi 802.11 b/g/n with WPS support, Bluetooth 3.0 with A2DP, accepted microUSB port, GPS receiver with A-GPS, 3.5mm audio jack

* Misc: Accelerometer for awning auto rotate, adjacency sensor for awning auto-turn-off, ambient ablaze sensor, FM radio with RDS, DivX/XviD support, multi-touch ascribe and pinch-zooming gestures

* Battery: 1500 mAh battery