25 March 2011 by Caroline
Since its launch in June 2010, Samsung’s mobile and TV app store has grown in popularity and is now celebrating its 100 million download milestone.
Samsung Apps launched with the Samsung Wave in summer last year, and reached 10 million downloads in the first 3 months alone – and then “skyrocketed” to 100 million downloads by March.
The number of apps available in the marketplace has also drastically increased – six-fold – since day one. The...
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Samsung Wave S8500 deals on contract
The world’s number 2 mobile phone giant, Korea’s Samsung, creates some waves with its Samsung Wave S8500, the world’s first smartphone running Samsung’s proprietary Bada OS and using the latest TouchWiz 3.0 UI. It is also the first consumer device certified to deploy the latest Bluetooth 3.0 +HS using the same WiFi 802.11 protocol. Its feature set is as superlative as any cutting edge flagship smartphone in the market.
Outstanding Flagship Features
The Snapdragon is not the only 1 GHz engine to power a mobile phone. The Wave gets a 1 GHz ARM Cortex A8 processor supported by a 512 MB ROM with a 2 GB memory expandable to 32 GB using its microSD slot. The TouchWiz 3.0 UI ported into the Bada OS features customizable widgets and menu that enable seamless and instant social networking integration as well as IM and email integration with your phonebook.
Its 3.3-inch display may look average with wide VGA resolution and 16 million colors but it uses cutting edge Super AMOLED screen technology with higher contrast ratio due to the absence of backlighting required in LCDs. In addition, its power efficiency allows up to 40% more talk and standby times for the same battery capacity. The screen gets protected with an anti-smudge scratch-resistant tempered glass cover.
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Housed in an all-aluminum touchscreen monoblock body with a 10.9 mm thickness, the Wave can claim to be one of the thinnest touchscreen smartphones in the market. It’s your quad band GSM on 2G with class 10 GPRS/EDGE data connectivity and is a dual band 3G phone with HSDPA at 7.2 Mbps and HSUPA at 2 Mbps data connectivity for really fast broadband internet surfing and social networking activities online.
You get high speed 54 Mbps hotspot internet surfing with its WiFi 802.11 b/g/n. As mentioned above, you get Bluetooth 3.0 + HS for up to 24 Mbps wireless local data connection speeds over the WiFi protocol. You also get wired microUSB 2.0 for wired data synching for up to 480 Mbps. SatNav functionality gets a built-in A-GPS receiver aided with a digital compass and Google Maps 3.0.
Imaging on the Samsung Wave S8500 is outstanding with a digital camera that boasts of a 5-megapixel resolution with LED flash, autofocus, face and smile/blink detection as well as geo-tagging from its A-GPS. Video recording stands out with a gorgeous high definition 720p resolution with video light. It also comes with a front-facing secondary videocall VGA camera.
Mobile entertainment gets media playback for popular audio and video files including Xvid and DivX, a stereo FM with RDS and broadcast recording and Samsung’s own DNSe audio enhancer. Stereo listening gets a choice of wireless A2DP support or wired 3.5mm audio jack.
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Latest Samsung Wave S8500 News
21 December 2010 by Caroline
Samsung’s one-year anniversary of its Bada platform has been celebrated together with an optimistic forecast for the future of the Samsung operating system. The current version of Bada is 1.2 and Samsung intends to launch version 2.0 during 2011. And with this new OS comes the forecast of 10 million Wave offers sold in the first half of next year. The new Bada OS includes an array of new features including NFC (Near Field Communication) sup...
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Samsung’s one-year anniversary of its Bada platform has been celebrated together with an optimistic forecast for the future of the Samsung operating system. The current version of Bada is 1.2 and Samsung intends to launch version 2.0 during 2011. And with this new OS comes the forecast of 10 million Wave offers sold in the first half of next year. The new Bada OS includes an array of new features including NFC (Near Field Communication) sup...
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19 October 2010 by Caroline
In time for Christmas, the true second Wave is braced to land in the UK in December with an estimated price tag of £375. Announced last week, the Samsung Wave II is the company’s fifth Bada-run smartphone and comes with the latest Bada 1.2 OS. And according to a tweet from Samsung UK’s account, Samsung doesn’t “have an exact date, but the Wave II will be available in the UK from December 2010”. The original Wave was launched in June this ye...
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In time for Christmas, the true second Wave is braced to land in the UK in December with an estimated price tag of £375. Announced last week, the Samsung Wave II is the company’s fifth Bada-run smartphone and comes with the latest Bada 1.2 OS. And according to a tweet from Samsung UK’s account, Samsung doesn’t “have an exact date, but the Wave II will be available in the UK from December 2010”. The original Wave was launched in June this ye...
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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 will get these two Samsung devices shortly too – including the UK. Both the Wave 2 and Wave 2 Pro have the same internal specifications, only the Pr...
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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 will get these two Samsung devices shortly too – including the UK. Both the Wave 2 and Wave 2 Pro have the same internal specifications, only the Pr...
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15 July 2010 by Liam
There is no doubt that Apple is pretty happy about the LED technology that they are using on the Apple iPhone 4. The new Retina Display provides users with sharp and clear visuals, but when compared to other devices, how does the iPhone 4 really hold up? A comparative test was done by blog side Techradar in order to really see the difference on how the screens performed, and the results are actually pretty surprising. Naturally, the commonly u...
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There is no doubt that Apple is pretty happy about the LED technology that they are using on the Apple iPhone 4. The new Retina Display provides users with sharp and clear visuals, but when compared to other devices, how does the iPhone 4 really hold up? A comparative test was done by blog side Techradar in order to really see the difference on how the screens performed, and the results are actually pretty surprising. Naturally, the commonly u...
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