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Preview Summary:Samsung Wave 525 3.5

If you’re looking for a cheap touchscreen that’s still packed with fun features, the Samsung Wave 525 could be the perfect phone for you.

Armed with a decent 3.2MP camera, the Wave 525 comes with a desirable capacitive touchscreen and runs off Samsung’s own Bada OS. No, it doesn’t have 3G connectivity or a high resolution screen, but for the affordable price you can hardly complain.

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In a word or two

The Samsung Wave 2 is a more affordable and accessible Bada-based smartphone.

The Design

A smaller version of the iPhone 3G S in shape, being tall and slim with a minimalist design, the Samsung Wave 2 brings the Bada OS experience to the cheaper end of the market. The screen is a mere 0.1 inches smaller than its big brother, the Wave, at 3.2 inches but does not boast the Super AMOLED technology – it is capacitive, though, and supports 256 thousand colours to allow for rich images onscreen.

The Samsung TouchWiz UI is onboard, a popular feature also found on the latest Galaxy phones, 3 and 5. This UI brings with it 7 home screens which you can make all yours, with any apps and features you so choose. With shortcuts to the likes of messages, apps and dialler, aligned along the bottom of each screen, navigation on the Samsung Wave 2 is simple and effortless.

The smartphone comes in a choice of pearl white, romantic pink or metallic black. A nice size for a phone, the Wave 2 is comfortable to carry, hold and use – just like the Wave 2 Pro, which is the same phone but with a slide-out QWERTY keyboard.

Specifications

The platform Samsung debuted on the Wave is also found in the follow-up, more affordable Wave, number 2. This is because Samsung wants to expand accessibility to the OS as well as to continue to grow its App Store – which already contains a number of apps for business, health, social networking and more, which you can download onto the phone. The Samsung Wave 2 has Java support which enables non-Bada specific apps and games to be added to your phone too.

Messaging and social networking are popular themes among many affordable smartphones including the LG Town GT350 and Galaxy Apollo. And the Samsung Wave 2 is no exception. The Social Hub function acts like MotoBlur on Motorola devices such as the Dext, and brings all your messages from numerous platforms into the one place – you can view, reply and update your own activities from here too. This is handy for sharing images taken on the phone’s 3.2-megapixel camera or video recorder. With email, Bluetooth and MMS available too, there are plenty of ways to share. And for longer communication with friends, you can always launch the separate apps for Facebook and Twitter.

Considerations

Although there is Wi-Fi support on the Samsung Wave 2, there is no 3G ability – which is a shame considering this is a messaging device.

Verdict

An attractive device that runs on the Bada platform, the Samsung Wave 2 offers you a cheaper alternative to the Wave and brings you a capacitive screen and social networking for a reasonable price.

Latest Samsung Wave 525 News

03 August 2010 by Caroline
The more affordable versions of the high-end smartphone, the Samsung Wave, are landing in Germany this week. Following on from the launch of Wave 2 deals and Wave 2 Pro deals in Russia, Germany is set to make these two smartphones available for €299 each. And the hope is that the rest of Europe w...
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23 June 2010 by Caroline
The word on the internet is that Samsung’s latest device, the Wave 2, could be available in the UK as soon as August. Although not officially confirmed by the company, if true this would mean both Samsung Wave 2 deals and Wave 2 Pro deals would be available during the summer month. The Pro is ...
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18 June 2010 by Best Mobile Contracts
At a June 15th CommunicAsia conference in Singapore, Samsung announced the Wave 2 and the accompanying Wave 2 Pro, two new smartphones running on Samsung's Bada open mobile platform, making good on an earlier promise to increase the volume and selection of Bada-based phones in an attempt to create a...
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17 June 2010 by Best Mobile Contracts
Following on from the success of their high end Wave S8500, Samsung have announced two new Smartphone’s that will hit the market and be specifically aimed at the Russian and South-Asian markets. In this article we shall be looking at the first of these two new phones from Samsung, the Samsung Wave 2...
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16 June 2010 by Liam
There is going to be plenty of new devices coming out this week –or at least getting revealed as Samsung takes the stage and presents a whole new set of devices that are going to change your current smart phone wish lists. Heading the lineup of expected Samsung handsets is two of their own Bada d...
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