Samsung Wave and Bada make debut
By James • Feb 17th, 2010 • Category: Uncategorized- Photo: Samsung
The Samsung Wave has been one of the more anticipated phones at the Mobile World Conference. Partly because of the handset itself and the promise revealed from the early image leaks, but also because it carries Samsung’s own mobile OS, Bada. Curious attendants and press alike were given some hands-on time with the device and the early response is generally positive.
Early impressions
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The Samsung Wave is lightning quick! From startup to launching apps and switching between apps – it has multitasking – hiccups are almost unnoticeable. The display is gorgeous, too, with the 3.3-inch 800×480 pixel AMOLED delivering rich colours, even in bright sunlight. The device also has a powerful 1GHz processor, Bluetooth 3.0 and 512MB RAM, and though no resource-intensive apps were used on the phone to show its worth, its handling of apps suggests it packs a noteworthy amount of power.
Bada nah?
What was not so great with the Samsung Wave, however, was the operating system. Bada seems nothing more than a hodgepodge of Android OS and iPhone OS thrown together without improving on either stand-alone mobile OS. Though it deserves grace for being in prototype mode still, it seems a lot of the functionality isn’t completely implemented, with multi-touch seeming non-existent and bugs causing the phone to freeze up and crash often.
Playing to their strengths
Samsung have always produced stunning, sturdy devices and the Wave is no different. The display far outruns and outlooks anything else on the market. Yes, even the iPhone and Nexus One. The problem is the company has never had particularly great user interfaces for their devices, and early impressions indicate the Samsung Wave suffers from this problem, too. The mobile OS is uninspiring and pales in comparison to what has been announced elsewhere, and though in early testing, its performance has not held up very well. Samsung haven’t announced a release date for the device, which indicates it may still take some time off to iron out the bugs and improve on Bada, too.
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