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Samsung Wave S8500 video review
#143 | 9:02 |
Friday August 6, 2010
Gadget TV
Friday August 6, 2010
We take a close look at the Samsung Wave S8500 in video. As iPhone 4 owners battle their antenna issues, BlackBerry users sit smugly with their hip holsters and Android devotees extol the benefits of their platform of choice, Samsung has decided to enter the smartphone fray with an operating system all its own. The experience is best showcased on its beautiful flagship smartphone. The Wave has a bright 3.3-inch AMOLED capacitive touch screen, a 1GHz processor to keep things humming, a 5MP camera with HD video recording capability and more.
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Samsung Wave S8500
GTS8500HSB
$30 (with contract) - $300 (without contract)
- Spectacular build quality and hand feel.
- Very responsive capacitive touchscreen
- Supports multitouch out of the box including pinch zoom in the web browser and photos.
- Three buttons on the bottom; a call and hangup button and a main menu button.
- Volume rocker on the left-hand side of the handset.
- Camera and a dedicated lock button on the right.
- microB USB connector and 3.5mm headset jack on the top.
- 5MP camera with LED flash on the back.
- Email sync works well and grabs your contacts, email, calendar events and associated IM contacts.
- Numerous homescreens with widgets available. Includes widgets like news and weather, at-a-glance, email, network, IM and others.
- Unique lock screen method; either swipe to unlock or drag a jigsaw puzzle piece to view missed calls, emails and SMS messages.
- Includes Samsung's own Facebook and Twitter clients.
- Keyboard takes some getting used to and doesn't do auto correction... at least, not that we could find.
- Gestures like double-tapping to search and different orientation events allow you to do things like turn the phone to silent when placed face down.
- Samsung's own app store (called, appropriately enough, Samsung Apps) has some decent selection. As this store doesn't have the developer buy-in that the Apple App Store and the Android Market have though, some important categories are pretty sparse at present.
- Browser doesn't support Flash or HTML5 so some sites, like butterscotch.com, won't offer the full experience.
Samsung Wave S8500 specs:
- 1GHz Hummingbird (Samsung's own) processor
- 3.3-inch WVGA Super AMOLED screen
- 5 megapixel camera with LED flash
- HD video at 1280x720 playing and recording
- FM radio
- 2GB microSD card, expandable to 32GB
- Bluetooth 3.0
- 802.11n Wi-Fi
GTS8500HSB
$30 (with contract) - $300 (without contract)
- Spectacular build quality and hand feel.
- Very responsive capacitive touchscreen
- Supports multitouch out of the box including pinch zoom in the web browser and photos.
- Three buttons on the bottom; a call and hangup button and a main menu button.
- Volume rocker on the left-hand side of the handset.
- Camera and a dedicated lock button on the right.
- microB USB connector and 3.5mm headset jack on the top.
- 5MP camera with LED flash on the back.
- Email sync works well and grabs your contacts, email, calendar events and associated IM contacts.
- Numerous homescreens with widgets available. Includes widgets like news and weather, at-a-glance, email, network, IM and others.
- Unique lock screen method; either swipe to unlock or drag a jigsaw puzzle piece to view missed calls, emails and SMS messages.
- Includes Samsung's own Facebook and Twitter clients.
- Keyboard takes some getting used to and doesn't do auto correction... at least, not that we could find.
- Gestures like double-tapping to search and different orientation events allow you to do things like turn the phone to silent when placed face down.
- Samsung's own app store (called, appropriately enough, Samsung Apps) has some decent selection. As this store doesn't have the developer buy-in that the Apple App Store and the Android Market have though, some important categories are pretty sparse at present.
- Browser doesn't support Flash or HTML5 so some sites, like butterscotch.com, won't offer the full experience.
Samsung Wave S8500 specs:
- 1GHz Hummingbird (Samsung's own) processor
- 3.3-inch WVGA Super AMOLED screen
- 5 megapixel camera with LED flash
- HD video at 1280x720 playing and recording
- FM radio
- 2GB microSD card, expandable to 32GB
- Bluetooth 3.0
- 802.11n Wi-Fi
Tagged:
Andrew Moore-Crispin
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,mobile
,Samsung
,Samsung Wave
,Samsung Wave S8500
,smartphones
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