SAMSUNG WAVE REVIEW

The Samsung Wave is the first device to work on new operating system, Bada, and is a respectably powerful and capable handset, designed for ease of usability.

To look at the Samsung Wave it is a smart, metallic-coloured phone with a recognisable smartphone look - big front-face covering touch-screen, minimal buttons at the bottom - of the high-end variety. The Wave looks most like the Nexus One. It even has an AMOLED screen, but this one is Super AMOLED which is 800x480pixels - basically a much brighter, more vivid screen that borrows technology from Samsung's televisions. The 3,3" display with vibrant colours makes video, pictures and even simple navigation a massive dose of eye candy.

The capacitive touch-screen supports multi-touch, including the same pinch to zoom that HTC are being sued for by Apple. And for customisable navigation a drag and drop to and from the homescreen is just one of the features that makes use of Samsung's excellent TouchWiz 3.0 user interface. What's more an accelerometer enables you to scroll by tilting the phone which makes for a very cool and intuitive experience.

The Wave has a 5 megapixel camera with LED flash that has become standard now for smartphones and you'll have plenty of space to store your pictures thanks to 2GB or 8GB built-in memory.

All this to the Samsung Wave and packed with a 1Ghz processor it seems it could really could keep up with the big boys, ie. HTC Desire, Nexus One - and it's even much cheaper than those too at just £339.99. It may not look quite as sexy as those, but the integration of TouchWiz with new Bada operating system on a phone of fantastic spec really is a stunning experience, even though we didn't really need another new operating system coming to the smartphone market.

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