Samsung S8500 Wave preview: First look

14 February 2010
Enter a new platform. With a boom. With a bang. A Bada kind of bang. Another of the big guns wants to play by their own rules. Samsung’s second spot in global market share was hard fought but... Updated 05 March

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  • Anonymous
  • Tn6
  • 07 Mar 2010

ohhhh, cant wait for this screen. gotta be awesome to watch movies on this thang ~~

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    • Anonymous
    • 4wJ
    • 06 Mar 2010

    Very cool phone...I haven't decided if I'd take this over the Vivaz. It is superior specs wise but I dislike the camera lens being at the edge...much prefer the lens of the Vivaz situated in the center.

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      • Anonymous
      • T$i
      • 06 Mar 2010

      Samsung has no technologies.
      It just steals Japanese technologies.
      Don't be tricked,anybody.

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        • Anonymous
        • uSN
        • 06 Mar 2010

        samsung is the most UNORIGINAL company EVER! Can't there design team just make their OWN stuff? I don't know about you people, but I totally think copying is not cool and so not innovative at all.

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          • Anonymous
          • uSN
          • 06 Mar 2010

          Anonymous, 05 Mar 2010another fail from samsung, why do they love widgets so much... moreI totally agree! What the hell is up with samsung and widgets?! It's annoying and corny. And samsung looks like those cheap china phones imitating the iphone. There's totally no innovation at all.

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            • Jaco
            • Nhg
            • 05 Mar 2010

            Thx for the update on the preview! Looking forward to the review! Lookin very promising so far! i hope the phone launches in southafrica.

            Give us a hint on the battery life already lol.
            otherwise im importing fom usa hehe.

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              • Flinky
              • Lau
              • 05 Mar 2010

              Does anyone know if the alarm clock can wake the switched off bada phone?

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                • paranoia
                • nTa
                • 05 Mar 2010

                double text in 6site:
                -Video recording-
                The Wave captures 720p videos
                at 30fps. Like the Sony Ericsson
                Vivaz, the S8500 Wave features
                continuous autofocus...

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                  • rtimi
                  • kK}
                  • 05 Mar 2010

                  Just for you haters to know, this isn't the flagship device but the possible i9000 device with unknown specs, besides you are blaming a phone that is not for high tech but for everyone. Did you read the preview? it is a smartphone for everyone. If you want a smartphone for business then stick to windows phone 6.5.3 and remember not even WP7 will be for business but half way. The iphone is just a feature phone with apps, and android is half smartphone with apps and the wave is an app phone with half smartphone for now. I believe it has potential as long as there are developers to bring it to life. You have been given a chance to make it better than the iphone(to all developers), Now do just that.

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                    • Anonymous
                    • mV0
                    • 05 Mar 2010

                    Best seller? dont think so, ppl are still disapointed with i8910 support from samsung.

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                      • Anonymous
                      • 0U@
                      • 05 Mar 2010

                      wow bada os rocks

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                        • Anonymous
                        • mhp
                        • 05 Mar 2010

                        Lets see if all that eye candy smooth interface will still be present in the final firmware version...

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                          • cokey
                          • qM2
                          • 05 Mar 2010

                          anonymous, i have a quetion, how come fone com dont make FM radio like regular radio but have to use rds head fone.. sucks

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                            • Anonymous
                            • nXa
                            • 05 Mar 2010

                            another fail from samsung, why do they love widgets so much? :S just ugly icons spread out over a stupid amount of "home"screens. looked outdated the day it came out, and only got worse over time

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                              • Anonymous
                              • vp9
                              • 05 Mar 2010

                              Is this it? More like the Ultra touch. Just hype from Sammy fans. No innovations only upgrades...satisfactory but not great.

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                                • Anonymous
                                • 3P1
                                • 05 Mar 2010

                                So looks like a crappy os!
                                Like TouchWiz on every other cheap Device... Like a stolen iPhone OS and Android OS Mixed up with a little bit of LGs horrible S-Class to let it looks like a peace of crap and let it looks even more cheap!
                                So I don't know who would buy this if you could also have Android with over 35.000 apps continously growing by 5000 per months or Windows Phone 7 where you can see that the developers put there hearts in it!
                                They have much more experience and the apps will get more than this peace of crap.
                                I would think it's a newer LG Arena. No Apps (100 is nothing) Only a pretty okay camer only a pretty okay screen only a pretty ok metal cover nothing more exiting here.
                                Or you get a real Smartphone with Android/WindowsPhone7

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                                  • Anonymous
                                  • 3Pc
                                  • 05 Mar 2010

                                  The screen ist 15:9! Only FWVGA (854x480) ist widescreen 16:9! Like Milestone/Droid.
                                  WVGA (800x480) isn't. Like the most others!

                                  Please change that.

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                                    • Martin
                                    • MnC
                                    • 03 Mar 2010

                                    Anonymous, 16 Feb 2010blow the iPhone away? LMAO. another user who can't afford a... moreYou know the Iphone is just for fun and not for real multi phone, yes the Iphone is plastic, yes it hasa poor battery, bad camera, and it is made of plastic and by children in 3 world, so yes the Iphone is for Paris Hilton and not for us. I had the Iphone and yes the only think thats nice is the app storeunless you are a mac freak, witch is still way behind Microsoft.

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                                      • Stephane (Swiss)
                                      • m0@
                                      • 27 Feb 2010

                                      My next portable. Sure.

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                                        • Anonymous
                                        • PeM
                                        • 21 Feb 2010

                                        Jaco, 18 Feb 2010The Omnia HD can playback High Defenition movies, the samsu... moreDumb,the Samsung Wave can playback HD videos!