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The Samsung Wave II S8530 (or "Samsung Wave II") is a discontinued smartphone developed and produced by Samsung Electronics. It is the successor of the Samsung Wave S8500smartphone, and runs on Samsung's Bada 1.2 operating system, which was commercially released in October 2010.[1][2][3] The Wave II is a slim touchscreen phone powered by a proprietary 1GHz ARM Cortex-8 CPU and a built-in PowerVR SGX 540 graphics engine, SLCD display and 720p video recording.[4] As the phone contained an LCD display, SlashGear speculated that the phone could be the result of a rumored AMOLED panel shortage.[5]
The exterior of the phone consists of a 10.9 mm thick metal-alloy housing in a slate-style form factor. The front features three physical buttons below the screen: a call, reject/shutdown, and main menu button.
Display
The display consists of a 3.7-inch (94mm)Super LCD capacitive touchscreen with an anti-smudge oleophobic coating on top of the scratch-resistant tempered-glass (Gorilla Glass Display) touch panel. The screen resolution is 800x480 WVGA.[6]
Processor
The phone features a 1GHz SoC,[7] containing an ARM Cortex A8 CPU core – identical to the ARM Cortex CPU core used in Apple's A4package on package SoC.[8][9] The phone's graphics engine is the SGX 540 which is said to be capable of generating 90 million triangles per second (same as the SoC used on the Samsung Galaxy S). The chip contains 256MB+128MB of onboard RAM (same hardware as the Samsung Wave S8500).
Camera
The phone features a 5 megapixel camera which supports 2592 x 1944 pixels, along with autofocus, LED flash, Geotagging, face & blink detection, image stabilization, touch focus, etc. Shooting modes include: beauty shot, smile shot, continuous, panorama, and vintage shot. It can record 720p HD video (1280x720) at 30 FPS with flash and a 320x240 slow-motion video at 120 FPS with flash.
Networking/Connectivity
The Samsung Wave II supports Wi-Fi 802.11 b/g/n, HSDPA 3.2Mbit/s and HSUPA 2Mbit/s. It was the first phone to support Bluetooth version 3.0[citation needed].
Other Features
Other features include A-GPS, 2GB/8GB of internal storage with a microSDHC slot for an additional 32 GB. It also has a magnetometer, a proximity sensor, an accelerometer, a 5.1-channel surround sound Mobile Theater, music recognition, a fake call service, smart search, and Social Hub.
This phone is available with European, Asian, and North American 3G bandings. The North American 3G bandings version of the phone is limited availability and is not available in the US.
Software Features
User Interface
The phone is one of the few smartphones to feature the Samsung Bada operating system platform. The UI is Samsung's own TouchWiz 3.0, which, like its 2 predecessors (TouchWiz 2.0 and TouchWiz), utilizes widgets. The 3 most notable widgets pre-installed in TouchWiz 3.0 are Daily Briefing (including all essential information such as weather, finance, AP mobile news, and schedule), Feeds and Updates, and Buddies now (allowing users to call, send texts to, and read Facebook or Twitter feeds off their favorite contacts). Users are allowed to have up to 10 home screens to add widgets.
Applications
In terms of Internet Browser, Samsung Wave is pre-installed with Dolphin Browser v2.0 (based on WebKit). While this browser supports Flash, it is disabled by default to improve page load time.
By default, the phone comes with Picsel Viewer, which is capable of reading .pdf documents and Microsoft Office file formats. Users from selected countries can buy and download Picsel Office Editor from Samsung Apps.
As for Samsung apps, users can also download applications, games and widgets from the application store.
Other software includes the GPS software that comes with this phone (LBS Route 66), Palringo IM, Facebook, Twitter, social hub, mini diary, daily briefing, memo, video player, FM radio, media browser, voice recorder, e-mail and pre-installed Asphalt 5.
Media Support
The Samsung Wave supports many media formats for both audio and video content, which are the MP3, AAC, AAC+, e-AAC+, WMA, AMR, WAV, MP4, FLAC, MPEG4, H.263, H.264, WMV, AVI, DivX, XviD, MKV file formats.
Android Porting
Due to many owners of the phone disliking the Bada software, many people[who?] have worked on porting the popular Android OS to the Wave 2. The ported versions known are Froyo, Gingerbread, Ice Cream Sandwich, Jelly Bean and KitKat. However, they are still being developed and some features, such as GPS, may be limited or not function as intended.[10]
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