The Samsung Wave II (model number GT-S8530) is a discontinued

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developed and produced by

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. It is the successor of the

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and runs on Samsung's Bada 1.2 operating system, which was commercially released in October 2010. The Wave II is a touchscreen phone powered by a proprietary 1 GHz

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Cortex-8 CPU and a built-in

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SGX 540 graphics engine,

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display and a

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. As the phone contained an

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display, ''SlashGear'' speculated that the phone could be the result of a rumored

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panel shortage.

Hardware Features

Design

The phone's exterior is made from a 10.9 mm thick metal alloy, designed in a slate-style form factor. The front includes three physical buttons positioned below the screen: a call button, a reject/shutdown button, and a main menu button.

Display

The 800x480

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display consists of a

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capacitive touchscreen with an anti-smudge

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coating on top of the scratch-resistant tempered-glass (

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Display) touch panel.

Processor

The phone features a 1 GHz

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containing an

Cortex-A8

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core identical to the ARM Cortex CPU core used in Apple's A4

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SoC and PowerVR SGX 540 GPU core. The chip contains 256 MB+128 MB of onboard

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(same hardware as the Samsung Wave S8500.)

Camera

The phone features a 5

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camera which supports 2592x1944 pixel resolution, along with autofocus, a

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flash,

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, face & blink detection, image stabilization, and touch focus. It can record 720p

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(1280x720) at 30 FPS with flash and a 320x240 slow-motion video at 120 FPS with flash.

Connectivity

The Samsung Wave II supports Wi-Fi 802.11 b/g/n, HSDPA 3.2

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and HSUPA 2 Mbit/s. It was one of the first phones to support

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version 3.0.

Other Features

Other features include

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and 2 GB/8 GB of internal storage with a

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slot for an additional 32 GB. It also has a magnetometer, a proximity sensor, an

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, a 5.1-channel surround sound Mobile Theater, music recognition, a fake call service, smart search, and Social Hub. This phone was available with European, Asian, and North American 3G bands. The North American 3G band version of the phone was limited availability and was not available in the US.

Software Features

User Interface

The phone features the Samsung Bada operating system. The UI is using TouchWiz 3.0, which utilizes widgets. The 3 most notable widgets preinstalled in TouchWiz 3.0 are Daily Briefing, which includes information such as weather, finance, AP mobile news, and schedule, Feeds and Updates, and Buddies Now, allowing users to call, send texts to, and read Facebook or Twitter feeds off their contacts. Users are allowed to have up to 10 home screens to add widgets.

Applications

Samsung Wave is preinstalled with Dolphin Browser v2.0 (based on

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). While the browser supports

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, it is disabled by default to improve page load time. By default, the phone comes with Picsel Viewer, which is capable of reading .pdf documents and Microsoft Office file formats. Users from selected countries can buy and download Picsel Office Editor from

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. Users can also download applications and widgets from the application store. Other software includes LBS Route 66, Palringo IM, Facebook, Twitter, Social Hub, Mini Diary, Daily Briefing, Memo, Video Player, FM Radio, Media Browser, Voice Recorder, E-mail, and Asphalt 5. Media Support The Samsung Wave supports the MP3, AAC, AAC+, e-AAC+, WMA, AMR, WAV, MP4, FLAC, MPEG4, H.263, H.264, WMV, AVI, DivX, XviD, MKV file formats for multimedia content. Android Porting Due to many owners of the phone disliking the Bada software, many people have worked on porting

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to the Wave 2. The known ported versions are Froyo,

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, Jelly Bean and

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. However, they are still being developed, and some features, such as

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, may be limited or not function as intended.

References

External links

Samsung site:
Official Samsung Wave website

Samsung Mobile Wave website
Reviews:
Phonearena.com review by PhoneArena Team, June 4th 2010

GSMArena.com review by GSMArena team, 19 November 2010
Support Forums
bada-world.pl

Samsung Wave Support Forum created by Wave owners

Bada Forums by Badaforums.net
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