Samsung Wave S8500 Super-AMOLED Smartphone Review, Specs and Price

Valid until 31 January 2015 (unless noted)

Previously I had covered Samsung Monte S5620 Now I would like to cover another cool phone from Samsung Mobile. Samsung Wave S8500 is a “just released” full touch-screen mobile phone by Samsung, released to the market in April 2010 and it has been available on some countries. This is obviously a smart phone with sophisticated technology because it equipped with the last hardware, software and features on it. The most interesting thing is Samsung S8500 Wave uses a 3.3-inches Super-AMOLED touch screen LCD display which means it has brighter-clearer screen with low energy consumptions. Other cool stuffs that come from Samsung Wave are 1 GHz processor with 2GB internal memory, WiFi 802.11 b/g/n, 3G HSDPA/HSUPA and Bluetooth 3.0. All of those components will provide fast multitasking phone operating experiences and fast data transfers.

Samsung Wave S8500 has a slim, sleek and beautiful design. The dimension measures 5.6 x 1.1 x 11.8 cm, and weighs 118 grams. It also has a 5 MP camera with autofocus, LED flash and 2592 x 1944 pixels resolutions. The operating system used by Samsung S8500 Wave is the Bada OS. The software and applications include Samsung apps; Social Networking apps like twitter, facebook, and myspace; IM and email services; FM radio with RDS; A-GPS; Google Maps 3.0; Audio and Video Players; and more. For operation and navigation it uses the intuitive TouchWiz user interface 3.0.



Samsung Wave S8500 specifications and features:

Network
2G GSM 850 / 900 / 1800 / 1900; 3G HSDPA 900 / 2100

Dimensions and weight
118 x 56 x 10.9 mm; 118 grams

Display
3.3 inches touch screen display with Super-AMOLED technology, 16M colors; features: Accelerometer, multi-touch input, proximity sensor, TouchWiz UI version 3.0, scratch resistant, handwriting recognition.

Processor
1 Ghz ARM Cortex A8 processor

Camera
5 Mega Pixels camera phone with autofocus, LED flash; Features: Geo tagging, smile/face/blink detection; 720p@30fps video

Sound
MP3 ringtones with vibration; speakerphone; 3.5 mm audio jack; DNSe

Memory
Samsung S8500 Wave internal memory: 2GB/8GB; external: MicroSD card slot up to 32GB

Data Transfers
GPRS/EDGE class 10; 3GHSDPA 7.2 Mbps / HSUPA 2 Mbps; Bluetooth 3.0 A2DP; WiFi 802.11 b/g/n; microUSB v2.0

Battery
Li-Ion 1500 mAh; battery performance: Up to 450 hours standby time, Up to 8 hours 30 minutes talk time, Up to 35 hours music play

Other Features
Samsung Bada OS; Messaging: SMS, MMS, Email, Push Email, Palringo IM; social networking apps; WAP 2.0/xHTML, HTML browser; FM radio with RDS and FM recording; A-GPS; Java MIDP 2.0; compass; Google Map 3.0; Image Editor; Organizer; Audio music player: play MP3 song/WAV/WMA/eAAC+ ; Video Player MP4/H.263/H.264/WMV/Xvid/DivX player; voice memo; T9


Samsung S8500 aka Wave is the first smartphone that uses Super-AMOLED touch-screen display. This is a cool mobile phone gadget so you gotta have it! The price for Samsung Wave S8500 is around € 345.43 / $ 424.3 USD (price on review) and it has been available in Amazon.de.