Samsung Wave: smartphone with AMOLED display

Samsung has opened the exhibition Mobile World Congress in Barcelona, to be held February 15 to 18, with a press conference to launch the new smartphones Samsung Wave. Terminal Korean company is the first phone based on open source operating system Bada. It follows a wide range of customization, such as the ability to receive real-time information from the community to which the user appertiene. Wave is indeed a smartphone business dedicated to “social,” full of applications and options to join the emails received on one interface, text messages and updates from social networks.


Samsung Wave features a 3.3-inch AMOLED touchscreen display with a resolution of 800 x 480 pixels and treatment mDNIe (the mobile version of Digital Natural Image engine, derived from the Korean television company). The use of a panel last generation has considerable advantages: it is more robust, consumes less and is easily readable in any lighting condition and from any angle.

Samsung Wave propose the new TouchWiz interface 3.0, a customizable user menu able to count to 10 modes, which provide access to applications and functions more usually used. The result is that everyone can organize the graphical interface according to your preferences.

Using Microsoft Exchange ActiveSync, users will also be informed in real time about receiving email or easy access to connected components (pictures, Word documents, PDF, MP3). The accompanying software can be expanded through the catalog of applications Apps Samsung, which includes games and applications of all types, downloadable from the phone or on a laptop PC with software supplied or online at Samsung KIES Samsungapps.com.

Technical, Wave is a small concentration of technology. By integrating a Samsung processor at 1GHz, this smartphone will allow you to record, share and read HD video (1280 x 720 pixels). Also bear the MPEG-4, H.263, H.264, WMV, DivX and XviD. Among the functions we remark Wave Samsung MP3 players, with enhanced audio technology DNSe, a music recognition feature, FM tuner and audio solution for recording radio.

Finally, the device will offer WiFi and Bluetooth 3.0 connection is compatible with PictBridge and will have a 5 megapixel camera with flash, auto-focus and face detection / smile. Add to that even a GPS module, an accelerometer, a digital compass, 2GB of memory and microSD card slot (up to 32GB), you get the perfect competitor for the iPhone. The price is still unknown.