Samsung Wave S8500 is the first mobile handset to be released on Samsung’s new, open Mobile platform, Samsung bada.

The Samsung Wave S8500 offers a Super AMOLED 3.3″ display that makes the screen truly come alive, a Social Hub to bring you closer to your contacts and connections, and TouchWiz 3.0 for an intuitive and hugely customizable user interface.

Samsung Wave features the world’s first Super AMOLED display delivering an unrivalled screen experience on a smartphone.

Social Hub has been designed to seamlessly integrate all major portal’s email, IM and SNS services directly into the Samsung Wave. With its TouchWiz 3.0″ UI, it provides users easy-flow integrated experience of messaging, managing contacts and viewing calendar events. Social Hub is powered by the amazing push technology to deliver email messages, calendar events and SNS updates in real-time.

The Samsung Wave S8500 provides superior levels of choice to all users via its fully customizable Menus and home-page. Users will also benefit from Quick Panel, a way of prioritizing and aggregating applications into one screen for instant access.

The Samsung Wave S8500 benefits from a superb 1GHz Processor which offers users the best graphic performance available today.

Multi-codec support for DivX, Xvid, MP4 and WMV, and support for virtual 5.1 surround sound delivery transforms the device into a personal Entertainment system and HD video (720p) decoding and recording capabilities make the Samsung Wave an outstanding device for capturing, sharing and viewing video.

For the first time in the world, Samsung Wave is incorporated Bluetooth 3.0 and WiFi 802.11n standard.

This phone is available in India at at price tag of Rs. 18000/- approximately.

Specifications

Platform

• Network and Data: GPRS, EDGE, 3G
• Band: 3G Band, GSM and EDGE Band
• Operation System: Samsung bada OS
• Browser: Dolfin Browser 2.0
• Java: MIDP2.1
• GSM/CDMA: 850/900/1800/1900 MHz
• 3G: 850/2100 MHz

Display and Battery Features

• Form Factor: Bar
• Weight: 118 Grams
• Dimension: 118*56*10.9 MM
• Internal Technology: Super AMOLED
• Internal Resolution: 480*800 (WVGA)
• Internal Size: 3.3″
• Battery Type: 1500 mAh
• Talk Time: 15 Hours (2G), 7 hours (3G)
• Standby Time: 600 Hours (2G), 550 hours (3G)
• Input Device: Full Touch

Connectivity

• Bluetooth: v.3.0
• WAP Browser: v.2.0
• SyncML(DS): v.1.2
• SyncML(DM): v.1.2
• USB: v.2.0 (High Speed)
• PC Sync Application: Samsung Kies
• TV-output: NTSC / PAL-B / PAL-M
• Internet HTML Browser

Memory

• User Memory: 2 GB(600 MB for Media Contents)
• SMS Memory: 1000
• Phone Book Entries: Up to Memory
• External Memory: via microSD Up to 32 GB

Camera

• Camera: 5 Megapixel
• 4X Digital Zoom
• LED Flash
• Auto Focus
• Shot Mode: Single, Beauty, Smile, Continous, Panorama, Vintage
• Photo Effects: Black/White, Sepia, Negative, Watercolour

Video

• Video Player
• Video Recording: (Up to 720p)
• Video messaging
• Video streaming
• Video telephony

Music and Sound

• Ringtones
• Music Player
• MP3 Ringtones
• 3D sound technology: Sound Alive
• Music Library: (Disk UI)
• DRM: OMA DRM v.2.0, WMDRM, DivX DRM

Fun and Entertainment

• Embedded Wallpaper: 10 Games
• FM Radio

Business and Office

• Picsel Document Viewer
• Mobile Printing
• Voice Memo and Voice Mail: Flight Mode

Messaging

• SMS
• MMS
• Predictive Text Input: T9
• E-Mail: POP3 / IMAP4 / Exchange Active Sync
• Push to Talk
• Cell Broadcast
• vCard
• vCalendar
• Instant Messaging

Personal Information Management

• To do List
• Scheduler
• Clock
• Calendar
• Worldtime
• Alarm
• Converter: Download-able
• Calculator
• Memo Book
• Stopwatch
• Countdown Timer

Call Functions

• Speakerphone
• Dialed / Missed / Received Calls
• Multi Party: 5
• Caller ID
• Call Cost
• Call Time

Special Features

• Touch Screen: C-Type w/ Anti-Smudge
• Mobile Tracker