Samsung mobile loyalists can soon get their hands on yet another innovative Samsung offering. The company has declared the release of a new phone, the Samsung Wave (S8500). This new handset is claimed to be the first to roll out on Samsung’s new, open mobile platform, Samsung bada.
This device sports a Super AMOLED 3.3-inch display that enables the screen to seem quite lifelike. The phone encompasses a Social Hub that merges all social networks into one, unified solution. Also the handset includes a TouchWiz 3.0 to allow an intuitive and immensely customizable user interface. The dainty device’s swift CPU guarantees quick, efficient application experiences and multi-tasking, thereby facilitating the phone an always-on mobile multimedia companion. The Wave has supposedly been constructed to deliver to users an unsurpassed level of performance, customization and selection in how they connect with their world.
JK Shin, President and Head of Mobile Communications Business at Samsung Electronics, commented, “The Samsung Wave truly demonstrates our commitment to deliver rich, connected and innovative smartphone experiences to everyone. Samsung Wave sees our platform vision become a reality. For the first time, developers have the freedom to create applications across multiple platforms, for consumption on a huge range of devices. In the Wave, our developer partners can see the ocean of opportunity that is offered by the bada mobile platform and our device technology.”
The Super AMOLED provides much vivid, lucid and less reflective AMOLED OnCell display with a high resolution of WVGA (800×480 pixels) screen in addition to mDNIe (mobile Digital Natural Image engine) technology. The Samsung Wave display offers amazing picture quality for seeing both videos as well as images. Social Hub intends to flawlessly put together all main portal’s email, IM and SNS services straightaway into the Samsung Wave. Social Hub is operated by the incredible push technology to provide email messages, calendar events and SNS updates in real-time. The phone’s 5.0 Megapixel camera with LED Flash also features Face/Blink Detection, Lomo Shot, Vintage Shot, Beauty Shot, Smile Shot, Panorama Shot, Geo-tagging and Image Editor.
The phone enables users to alter the layout of the home-page to let immediate access to Twitter, Facebook and several other social networking services. For music addicts, the phone’s home-page can be converted into an intuitive media player. The home-page can also be personalized to display their desired pictures. Users can also gain advantage from Quick Panel, means of prioritizing and aggregating applications into one screen for immediate access. All this is possible thanks to the new and enhanced TouchWiz 3.0 UI.
The device features an incredible 1GHz processor which provides users with the best graphic performance accessible today. Its pace enables the touchscreen user interface to be extremely receptive and intuitive and also denotes that the 3D and memory-intensive graphic and video performance are supposedly unrivaled. The device is compatible with DivX Xvid, MP4 and WMV. Moreover, the handset supports virtual 5.1 surround sound delivery system and encompasses HD video (720p) decoding and recording facilities. It is claimed that Samsung has incorporated Bluetooth 3.0 and Wi-Fi 802.11n standard into Wave. Various Samsung Apps can be accessible from the Wave, although the apps differ according to countries.
Samsung Wave is scheduled to hit the markets internationally from April 2010. The price of the device is presently under wraps.