After launching the Samsung Wave 3 S8600 – the company’s flagship handset for its Bada operating system – in global markets a few days ago, the mobile phone is now available in stores in India for a price of Rs. 19,600, a Samsung representative has told Phone Mantra.
The Wave 3 comes with a bigger screen, faster processor and newer OS as compared to the Wave II S8530. Carved out of a single aluminium body, the new handset features a large 4-inch Super AMOLED touchscreen, powered by a 1.4GHz processor. It retains the fantastic 5-megapixel camera with LED flash from its previous avatar, as well as features like HD video recording, 3G, Wi-Fi, GPS with A-GPS, DivX support, TV-out and more.
The 4GB of internal memory it comes with should be enough to install all the apps you would need from the Bada OS 2.0.
Of course, the OS still doesn’t have an eco-system of apps that can rival competitors like iOS and Android – or even Windows Phone 7.5 Mango for that matter – so we wonder if the device would really appeal to people when compared to handsets running on these platforms and offering similar features.
Samsung S8600 Wave 3 Technical Specifications
| General |
| Status | Coming soon |
| Announced | August 2011 |
| Network (2G) | GSM 900 / GSM 1800 / GSM 1900 / GSM 850 |
| Network (3G) | HSDPA 2100 / HSDPA 900 |
| Form factor | Block |
| Antenna type | Internal |
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| Size |
| Weight | 122.0 g (with battery) |
| Dimensions | 125.9 x 64.2 x 9.9 mm |
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| Display |
| Type | Graphical |
| Coloured | Yes, Super AMOLED capacitive touchscreen, 16M colors |
| Size | 4.00 inch |
| Resolution | 480 x 800 pixels |
| | - Gorilla Glass display
- Accelerometer sensor for UI auto-rotate
- Multi-touch input method
- Proximity sensor for auto turn-off
- TouchWiz UI
- Handwriting recognition
- Smart unlock |
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| Memory |
| Shared memory | 3 GB |
| | - Photocall
- microSD, up to 32GB
- 1.4 GHz processor |
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| Ringtones |
| Polyphonic ringtones | Yes |
| Ringtone profiles | Yes |
| | - MP3 ringtones
- DNSe (Digital Natural Sound Engine) |
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| Networking |
| GPRS | Yes |
| EDGE | Yes |
| WLAN | Yes, Wi-Fi 802.11 a/b/g/n, Wi-Fi Direct, Wi-Fi hotspot |
| USB | Yes, microUSB v2.0 |
| Bluetooth | Yes, 3.0 with A2DP |
| WAP | Yes |
| Browser | Yes, WAP 2.0/xHTML, HTML |
| Email client | Yes |
| | - Bada OS, v2.0
- HSDPA 14.4 Mbps
- HSUPA 5.76 Mbp
- Push Email
- Instant Messaging
- GPS with A-GPS support
- Samsung Mobile Navigator |
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| Features |
| Vibration | Yes |
| SMS | Send / Receive |
| MMS | Send / Receive |
| Camera | Builtin, 5 MP, 2592 x 1944 pixels, autofocus, LED flash, geo-tagging, face, smile and blink detection, image stablilization, touch focus, video (720p@30fps, video light), secondary VGA front facing camera |
| Java | Yes, MIDP 2.1 |
| Games | Yes, (changeable) |
| Clock | Yes |
| Alarm | Yes |
| Calculator | Yes |
| Calendar | Yes |
| To-do list | Yes |
| Voice memo | Yes |
| T9 | Yes |
| Multiple numbers / contact | Yes |
| Handsfree | Yes |
| Headset jack | Yes |
| FM Radio | Yes |
| | - TV-Out
- MP3/WAV/WMA/eAAC+ player
- MP4/MKV/H.263/H.264/WMV/Xvid/DivX video player
- Organizer
- Music recognition
- Document viewer
- Image editor |
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| Standard Battery |
| Type | Li-Ion |
| Amperage | 1500 mAh |
| Standby time | GSM: 480h |
| Talk time | GSM: 8h 30m |
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