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Samsung Waves in first Bada based mobile
By siliconindia
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Tuesday, 16 February 2010, 19:24 IST |
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Barcelona: Samsung has launched Samsung Wave, its first handset based on open mobile platform, Samsung Bada at the Mobile World Congress. The Samsung Wave offers a AMOLED 3.3" display that makes the screen truly come alive, a Social Hub to bring users closer to contacts and connections, and TouchWiz 3.0 for an intuitive and hugely customizable user interface. The Wave's high-speed CPU ensures swift, smooth application experiences and multi-tasking, making the device an always-on mobile multimedia companion.
"The Samsung Wave truly demonstrates our commitment to deliver rich, connected and innovative smartphone experiences to everyone," said JK Shin, President and Head of Mobile Communications Business at Samsung Electronics. "Samsung Wave sees our platform vision become a reality. For the first time, developers have the freedom to create applications across multiple platforms, for consumption on a huge range of devices. In the Wave, our developer partners can see the ocean of opportunity that is offered by the bada mobile platform and our device technology," he said.
The Samsung Wave provides superior levels of choice to all users via its fully customizable menus and home-page. For those who demand access to their social networking sites at all times, the device allows users to change the layout of the home-page to allow instant access to Twitter, Facebook and a host of other social networking services. For those who love music, the device home-page can be turned into an intuitive media player; while for those who take and share a lot of photos, the home page can be customized to feature favourite images. Users will also benefit from Quick Panel, a way of prioritizing and aggregating applications into one screen for instant access.
The Samsung Wave benefits from a 1GHz processor which offers users the best graphic performance available today. The phone comes with 5.0 Megapixel camera w/ LED Flash, AF Face/Blink Detection, Lomo Shot, Vintage Shot, Beauty Shot, Smile Shot, Panorama Shot, Geo-tagging, Image Editor. It plays HD (720p) video playing and recording, 5.1ch Mobile Theater MPEG4, H.263, H.264, WMV, DivX, XviD Video Editor. It comes with 2GB/8GB memory card and can be extended up to 32 GB.
Samsung's bada platform allows mobile users to simply and easily download an abundance of applications from Samsung Apps, an integrated application store accessible from the device and online. Featuring a wealth of games, navigation, social networking, e-book, health and lifestyle applications, Samsung Apps gives users instant access to a huge choice of mobile experiences.
Samsung established its mobile application ecosystem through the launch of Samsung Mobile Innovator in 2008 and the Samsung Application Seller Site followed by Samsung Application Store as another key element of this offering. Already launched in the UK, France, Italy, Singapore, Germany, Brazil and China, this will be expanded to more than 50 countries all over the world in 2010.
The Samsung Wave will be available in April 2010. The price of the phone is still not disclosed.
