Samsung S8500 Wave

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Design
8.3
Features
8.3
Performance
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General 2G Network GSM 850 / 900 / 1800 / 1900
3G Network HSDPA 900 / 2100
  HSDPA 850 / 1900 - North America
Announced 2010, February
Status Available. Released 2010, April
Body Dimensions 118 x 56 x 10.9 mm
Weight 118 g
Display Type Super AMOLED capacitive touchscreen, 16M colors
Size 480 x 800 pixels, 3.3 inches (~283 ppi pixel density)
Multitouch Yes
Protection Corning Gorilla Glass
 - TouchWiz UI 3.0
- Handwriting recognition
Sound Alert types Vibration, MP3 ringtones
Loudspeaker Yes
3.5mm jack Yes
 - DNSe (Digital Natural Sound Engine)
Memory Card slot microSD, up to 32 GB
Internal 390 MB
Data GPRS Class 10 (4+1/3+2 slots), 32 - 48 kbps
EDGE Class 10, 236.8 kbps
Speed HSDPA 3.6 Mbps; HSUPA, 2 Mbps
WLAN Wi-Fi 802.11 b/g/n, Wi-Fi hotspot
Bluetooth Yes, v3.0 with A2DP
USB Yes, microUSB v2.0
Camera Primary 5 MP, 2592 x 1944 pixels, autofocus, LED flash
Features Geo-tagging, face, smile and blink detection, image stablilization, touch focus
Video Yes, 720p@30fps, video light
Secondary Yes
Features OS Bada OS, upgradable to v2.0
Chipset Hummingbird
CPU 1 GHz Cortex-A8
GPU PowerVR SGX540
Sensors Accelerometer, proximity, compass
Messaging SMS, MMS, Email, Push Email, Palringo IM
Browser WAP 2.0/xHTML, HTML
Radio Stereo FM radio with RDS, FM recording
GPS Yes, with A-GPS support, Samsung Mobile Navigator
Java Yes, MIDP 2.0
Colors Ebony Gray
 - TV-Out
- MP3/WAV/WMA/eAAC+ player
- MP4/H.263/H.264/WMV/Xvid/DivX video player
- Organizer
- Picsel document viewer
- Image editor
- Voice memo
- Predictive text input (T9 Trace)
Battery   Standard battery, Li-Ion 1500 mAh
Stand-by Up to 600 h (2G) / Up to 550 h (3G)
Talk time Up to 15 h (2G) / Up to 7 h (3G)
Music play Up to 35 h
Misc SAR EU 0.99 W/kg (head)    
Price group
Tests Loudspeaker Voice 69dB / Noise 66dB / Ring 75dB
Audio quality Noise -90.9dB / Crosstalk -92.5dB
Camera Photo / Video

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Samsung S8500 Wave - user opinions and reviews

  • ashok

Hi friends, I am using S8500 since long.I used to connect wi fi when I was using BSNL broad band.Recently I changed the service provider and I started using Tikona service.My mobile shows wi fi connectivity but internet asses is not possible.every ...

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  • Pavan

Hi, You are required to download S8500DDLC2_firefly.rar from internet. Then you are required to download MultiLoader_V5.65. You have to flash it. You can get instructions in net.

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  • suvodeep

dear friends,i purchased my wave s8500 in 2010.now i am using bada 1.2 on my phone.but i want to use 2.0 so,please tell me the release date of bada 2.0 in india.not through kies.

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