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Samsung S8500 Wave - Amazing Touchscreen Phone

Date Added : August 20, 2010 | Views : 300

Samsung S8500 also known as Wave, is a quad-band GSM 850/900/800/1900 and HSDPA 900/2100 device. It is the first phone from Samsung featuring the BADA operating system. The phone measures 118 X 56 X 10.9 mm and weighs 118 grams.



Samsung Wave features a 3.3 inches super AMOLED capacitive touchscreen which supports 16 million colors and has a resolution of 480 X 800 pixels. An accelerometer sensor and proximity sensor are provided for auto-rotate and auto turn-off respectively. The body of the phone is made up of scratch-resistant material. Other features include handwriting recognition, smart unlock, etc. The phone runs on Samsung's innovative TouchWiz user interface which makes the phone attractive and easy to use.



Samsung wave runs on an ARM Cortex A8 1 GHZ processor and features Samsung's BADA OS. It has an internal memory of 1.5 GB (390 MB user available) which can be further expanded up to 32 GB using an external microSD card. It has a 5 megapixel camera which can take images up to a resolution of 2592 X 1944 pixels and record videos at 30 frames per second. Other features of the camera include autofocus, LED flash, image stabilization, touch focus, geo-tagging, smile and blink detection, video light, etc.



The handset includes a music player which can play MP3/WAV/WMA/eAAC+ file formats and a video player which supports MP4/WMV/DivX file formats. Stereo FM radio with RDS and FM recording is also provided. Other applications include Digital compass, organizer, image editor, voice memo, etc. Users can also download other applications from Samsung's App store.



The phone has a standard Li-ion 1500 mAh battery which offers standby time of 600 hours(2g)/550 hours(3g) and talk time of 15 hours(2g)/7 hours(3G).



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