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.
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ngek pinagiisipan pa ba yun.. mag wave ka nalang.. check mo specs nila.. -ip4 user-
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.
magkanu na po ngayun ung samsung wave II planning kc bumili!plzzz reply
nokia c7 oh samsung wave? O_O nu ba yan errrr
pa help naman oh ano ba talaga mas maganda…same price lang sila
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.
Guys sana makapag bigay kayo ng info kung totoo talaga ang rumor na yun.
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.
@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.
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!
P18,115 at Sm north last week.. y? bcoz dey have a samsung center exhibit. =)