So I shared my first impressions of the upcoming Samsung Wave S8500 last week and gave a possible price-point. Turns out it’s cheaper than we’ve expected.
In a Developer Conference this afternoon, Samsung Philippines introduced their own home-grown operating system, Bada, and the first handset to run it — the Samsung Wave.
Turns out my initial estimate was a bit off. The Wave will have a suggested retail price of Php19,900 (as opposed to the Php20k++ I posted before). The model will have a 2GB internal storage and comes with an additional 1GB via microSD card (max of 32GB).
The specs sheet looks pretty interesting:
Samsung Wave S8500
1.0GHz ARM Cortex A8 Processor
3.3″ Super AMOLED multi-touch display @ 480×800 pixels
2GB/8GB internal storage
up to 32GB via microSD
HSDPA 7.2Mbps, HSUPA 2Mbps
WiFi 802.11 b/g/n
Bluetooth 3.0 w/ A2DP
5MP autofocus camera w/ LED flash
720p vidoe recording @ 30fps
FM radio with RDS and FM recording
GPS w/ aGPS support
1500mAh Li-Ion battery
TouchWiz UI 3.0 on Bada OS
Launch date is tentatively on June 2 (or was it 2nd week of June?) according to the Samsung Product Manager. We took this video demo of the Samsung Wave running a car racing game:
So far, my initial impressions remained the same — that Super AMOLED screen looked impressive and the Samsung App Store should deliver the much needed applications for the phone. See my initial impressions of the Samsung Wave here.
@ shiela and sam
from the research i made, yes wave has a picsel file viewer for mobile office (doc,excel even pdf) but you cant edit them. Sana totoo coz its a deal breaker for me. I was so set in buying the galaxy s but i cant wait for the unlocked version anymore. i lost my omnia II last month and galaxy na sana preferred fon ko pero until now wla p din official release dito satin. Ive seen some wave specs saying there are units with 8g internal memory. Is it true? Can any1 confirm this. If true, sang outlets meron?
I bought samsung wave for my main phone and another samsung champ for my secondary phone. No problems . good user experience. and UI are almost the same. these phones are excellent
@ariel
wak ka na mag galaxy s mag samsung wave ka na lng
walng flash ang camera nang galaxy
sobrang lupit nang wave.. design d halata sa bulsa scratch resistant sya…
yung OS nya version 1 pa lng pero lumalaban na sa ISO4 at android
yung video card nya swabeng swabe…,
kahit warcraft 3 cs and other pc games kakayanin nang spec nya 1 gig procesor with grapics procesor for game.. super amoled — number 1 next is the retina tech by apple… and 512mb memory… at good news magkakaroon na sya nang swype sa november or december kasabay nang paid appstore… d na kau magtataka halus lahat na naka wave pede pa gawing router… at yung DLNA nya smooth…
if you want more apps go kau sa apple or android…
pero kung gusto mo makuha both… GO for samsung wave bada….
highly recommended. I like the camera it’s better than my digicam, responsive touchscreen na, multi-touch function pa on pics browsing and internet browsing like iphone. I love some games like basketball and need for speed, very addictive. It plays youtube faster than my dual core laptop (ideal if you have unli internet or for free thru wifi).
If you want Kies(wave’s apps store) with paid apps, change the country from Philippines to let say, UK, you can find paid apps.
And also don’t forget to update the phone firmware thru Kies for better performance. They just release one few days ago.
FINALLY!!! I bought WAVE na! It’s great! two weeks now and no problems so far. Bilis ng internet and the best ang screen. I downloaded good apps as well sa Samsung Apps store. The Kies software didn’t impress me though.
Now the question, i inserted SUN BROADBAND SIM and i couldn’t get it to work… sayang naman. I tried to set the network settings to “UTMS” pero it didn’t work. and how do I set the APN to ffband???
according to Sun’s FAQ: “..3G/UTMS and the APN to “fbband†and then your good to go.”
PLEASE HELP ME ON THIS!!!I think may nagtanong na about this as well dito…
[...] September 10th, 2010 If you’re familiar with the 1GHz ARM Cortex-A8 that powers the Samsung Wave and Galaxy S including the new Archos Android tablets, then it’s going to be easy to imagine [...]
how much naba ngun samsung wave?
I got mine about 19k or so from samsung store in trinoma… paid it whole in cash. Actually, they’re the cheapest kasi nagpunta na ako sa iba’t ibang samsung branch — most of them 20K and up kahit cash.
Hi. Iniisip ko kung bibili ako ng wave. Based on the c0mments of other people dito, ayos naman siya para sa akin..meron na bang new firmware?an0ng changes meron? At meron na bang app that can edit word d0cs? Meron din kayang chance to convert symbian app to bada app? Tan0ng lang naman…
Twitter: hex614
says:
i like wave… ill buy next month.
Guys, can you give me sites of online phone dealers here in Philippines? I want to compare their prices before I buy one.
guys check this out, a very cheap price for samsung wave for only 15,500 with free 16 gb micro sd. Oh my god kung nasa pinas lang ako, bilhin ko na to. http://listings.auction.ph/CellPhones/Phones/Samsung/Brand+New+Samsung+S8500+Wave+FREE++8GB+microSD/id-12464968
P18,115 at Sm north last week.. y? bcoz dey have a samsung center exhibit. =)
Bought mine mid-August. No regret at all. Can compete (or even surpass) my previous omnia II phone pero this is P12,000 cheaper wen i bought my omnia II a yr ago. Fast, Best screen experience, and the music (specially on earphones) is really loud and clear. Downside is the limited apps althought its growing fast each day. Im not into that so its not a deal breaker for me. One prob nga pla (lately lang), it keeps on restarting khit wla ako pinipindot. Otherwise, love the phone.Feature wise, its on the league with best and expensive ones out there. Good buy!
Twitter: whirlp00l
says:
@ariel
Sa pagkakaalam ko kailangan mong ipadala sa samsung service center yan. Ipapaayos mo lang naman yung firmware. And from what I’ve heard, sandali lang naman yun :)
So far, maganda naman yung Wave. Tons of nice apps now, good camera. May bagong application pa na nag-uutilize ng camera features.
Twitter: mudinsole
says:
Is it true that samsung wave 1 is wiping out in the market and be replaced by wave 2? I read some comments about this rumor. How true is it? please share some info because I want to buy samsung s8500 sooner and i’m afraid that it will be out of stock because of the rumor.
Twitter: mudinsole
says:
Guys sana makapag bigay kayo ng info kung totoo talaga ang rumor na yun.
Hello. I just would like to ask kung meron na bang wave from the philippines na naupdate na to bada 1.2? Lagi na lang kasi akung nagchecheck sa Kies pero laging wala. When would this finally be out? The downside of my wave is it quickly runs out of memory every time a demanding application is opened. And my security lock on specific applications is easily overridden when there are too many applications running in the background. I hope that 1.2 will answer all my concerns.
nokia c7 oh samsung wave? O_O nu ba yan errrr
pa help naman oh ano ba talaga mas maganda…same price lang sila
magkanu na po ngayun ung samsung wave II planning kc bumili!plzzz reply
People are desperately waiting for launch of bada 2.0 os. I think it will beat the android phones and samsung bada will be top os.
People are desperately waiting for launch of bada 2.0 os. I think it will beat the android phones and samsung bada will be top os.
ngek pinagiisipan pa ba yun.. mag wave ka nalang.. check mo specs nila.. -ip4 user-
selling samsung wave s8500 for 11k. 5mons old. pm me if you’re interested. 09185497986
naghahanap ako ng samsung wave, kung pm. nyo ako kung meron.. 09057328713