The Samsung Wave II S8530 (or "Samsung Wave II") is the successor of the

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running the Bada 1.2 operating system designed by

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, which was commercially released in October 2010. The Wave is a slim touchscreen phone powered by Samsung's "Hummingbird" CPU, which includes a 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

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high-definition video capture capabilities.''SlashGear'' speculated that the phone could be the result of a rumored AMOLED panel shortage.

Hardware features

Design The phone is made of mostly metal alloy and is measured 10.9 mm thick. In terms of form factor, it is a slate-style featuring 3 physical buttons on the front: call, reject/shutdown, and main menu button. Screen The screen is a 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, which has been shown to be capable of resisting extreme friction (scratch-resistant). The screen resolution is 800x480 WVGA. Processor The phone features a 1 GHz SoC, which internally contains an

Cortex A8 CPU core identical to the ARM Cortex CPU core used in Apple's A4

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SoC. The Phone graphics engine is SGX 540 which is said to be capable of generating 90 million triangles per second (same as the SoC used on the Samsung Galaxy S). And 256MB+128MB

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(same hardware as the Samsung Wave S8500). Camera The phone features a 5

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camera which supports 2592 x 1944 pixels, along with autofocus, LED flash,

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, face, blink detection, image stabilization, touch focus, etc. Other than these features it has shooting modes such as beauty shot, smile shot, continuous, panorama and vintage shot. As a camcorder it is able to record a 720p HD video (1280x720) at 30 FPS with flash and a 320x240 slow-motion video at 120 FPS with flash. Other features Other features include

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, 2 GB/8 GB of internal storage with a

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HC slot for an additional 32 GB. It also has a magnetometer, a proximity sensor, an accelerometer, 5.1-channel surround sound Mobile Theater, music recognition, a fake call service, smart search and Social Hub. The Samsung Wave II is the first phone to support Bluetooth version 3.0. It also features Wi-Fi 802.11 b/g/n, HSDPA 3.2 Mbit/s and HSUPA 2 Mbit/s. This phone is available with European, Asian and North American 3G bandings. The North American 3G bandings version of the phone is a limited availability and is not available in the US.

Software features

User interface The phone is one of the few smartphones to feature the Samsung

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operating system platform. The UI is Samsung's own TouchWiz 3.0, which, like its 2 predecessors (TouchWiz 2.0 and TouchWiz), utilizes widgets. The 3 most notable widgets pre-installed in TouchWiz 3.0 are Daily Briefing (including all essential 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 favorite contacts). Users are allowed to have up to 10 home screens to add widgets. Applications In terms of Internet Browser, Samsung Wave is pre-installed with Dolphin Browser v2.0 (based on

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). While this 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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. As for Samsung apps, users can also download applications, games and widgets from the application store. Other software includes the GPS software that comes with this phone (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 pre-installed Asphalt 5. Media support MP3, AAC, AAC+, e-AAC+, WMA, AMR, WAV, MP4, FLAC, MPEG4, H.263, H.264, WMV, AVI, DivX, XviD, MKV Android porting Due to many owners of the phone disliking the

software many people have worked on porting the popular

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

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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 websiteSamsung Mobile Wave website
Reviews:
Phonearena.com review by PhoneArena Team, June 4th 2010GSMArena.com review by GSMArena team, 19 November 2010
Support Forums
Samsung Wave Support Forum created by Wave ownersBada Forums by Badaforums.net
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Hardware features

Software features

See also

References

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