Samsung Wave Due in June

Samsung Promises Ultimate SmartPhone Experience With Wave, 1st Handset on its New Bada Platform

Samsung Ireland  has announced that its highly anticipated Samsung Wave Model S8500, the first mobile handset to be released on its new, open mobile platform, Samsung bada, will arrive in Ireland in June.

Samsung bada is the foundation of the company's commitment to providing a smartphone for every lifestyle. 

The Wave offers a Super AMOLED 3.3" display that makes the screen come alive, a Social Hub to bring users closer to contacts and connections, and the TouchWiz 3.0 intuitive personal user interface.

The Wave's high-speed CPU is  designed to bring users  swift and  smooth multi-tasking  of applications, making the device an always-on mobile multimedia companion. For the first time, the Wave incorporates the Bluetooth 3.0 and WiFi 802.11n standards.

Samsung Ireland country manager Gary Twohig  said: "The Samsung Wave demonstrates our commitment to delivering an unrivalled, connected and innovative smartphone experience,Samsung Wave sees our platform vision become a reality.

"Developers  will now have the freedom to create applications for the Samsung Apps Store across multiple platforms, for use on a huge range of devices".

The Samsung Wave features the world's first Super AMOLED display which is  predicted to deliver a unique screen experience on a smartphone, by  offering  much brighter, clearer, and less reflective  display. The AMOLED OnCell display, features a high resolution WVGA (800x480 pixels) screen with mDNIe (mobile Digital Natural Image engine) technology.

DNIe technology is proven display technology which  is  already incorporated in Samsung's LCD TV and LED TV products. With a free viewing angle and super fast response, the Samsung Wave's display will provide superb image quality for viewing both videos and photos.

Social Hub - brings online communities to handsets

Social Hub has been designed to seamlessly integrate all major portal's email, IM and SNS services directly into the Samsung Wave. With its TouchWiz 3.0 UI, it provides users easy-flow integrated experience of messaging, managing contacts and viewing calendar events. Social Hub is powered by push technology to deliver email messages, calendar events and SNS updates in real-time.

Samsung Apps: unlimited expandability

Samsung's bada platform allows mobile users to simply and easily download a range of applications from Samsung Apps, an integrated application store accessible from the device and online. Featuring a wealth of games, navigation, social networking, e-book, health and lifestyle applications, Samsung Apps gives users instant access to a huge choice of mobile experiences.

Samsung established its mobile application ecosystem through the launch of Samsung Mobile Innovator in 2008. The Samsung Application Seller Site followed by Samsung Application Store is another key element of this offering. Already launched in the UK, France, Italy, Singapore, Germany, Brazil and China, it is due to be expanded to more than 50 countries around  the world in 2010.

TouchWiz 3.0 UI - new and improved

The Samsung Wave provides superior levels of choice to all users via its fully customiseable menus and home-page. For those who demand access to their social networking sites at all times, the device allows users to change the layout of the home-page to allow instant access to Twitter, Facebook and other social networking services. For those who love music, the device home-page can be turned into an intuitive media player; while for those who take and share a lot of photos, the home page can be adapted to feature favourite images. Users will also benefit from Quick Panel, a way of prioritising and aggregating applications into one screen for instant access.

With its striking brilliant screen, Samsung's latest TouchWiz 3.0 user interface gives a tactile, intuitive user experience, and includes new features such as motion UI, Smart Unlock and customisable widget screen.

Speed, performance and style

The Samsung Wave benefits from a superb 1GHz processor which offers users the best graphic performance available today. Its speed makes the touch screen user interface incredibly responsive and more importantly, means that the 3D and memory-intensive graphic and video performance is unsurpassed.

The Samsung Wave is also one of the most stylish and contemporary devices with a seamless, streamlined body that has no parting or harsh lines. A striking and strong tempered glass display perfectly complements and enhances the vividness of the Super AMOLED display. Furthermore, with anti-smudge technology, thumb prints are a thing of the past!

Multimedia features and connectivity

Multi-codec support for DivX Xvid, MP4 and WMV, and support for virtual 5.1 surround sound delivery transforms the device into a personal entertainment system and HD video (720p) decoding and recording capabilities make the Samsung Wave an outstanding device for capturing, sharing and viewing video.

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