Trust in yourself, son, the increase in smartphone news that you sense is not imagined, it's very very real. Mobile World Congress is about to kick off in Barcelona which means we're just hours away from being knee-deep in the stuff. One of the most anticipated devices is the Samsung Wave, first
spotted on billboards around Barcelona yesterday. The anticipation is warranted for 2 reasons. First, this 3.3-inch candybar slate is presumably sporting Samsung's new
Super AMOLED which should help with outdoor viewing. And b, it's the first phone to run Samsung's new Bada smartphone OS... yes, another one, developers. According to
Daily Mobile, the Wave S8500 brings a1GHz processor, 5 megapixel autofocus camera with flash, 720p video recording to 2GB of internal memory or microSD expansion, 802.11b/g/n WiFi and HSDPA data, DivX video support, and a 3.5-mm audio jack in a device measuring 10.9-mm thick. Unfotunately, we can't confirm any of those specs yet (wait until Sunday's press event) -- the pics, however, certainly match up with what we've already seen. We've dropped in a few choice shots after the break, the rest are at
Daily Mobile in the link below.
[Thanks, Daniel]
posted February 13th 2010 8:50AM
@OrsonX
this is really interesting...do you mind expanding on this topic? I have never thought of this and always figured HD would have to be at least a 7-8mp.
@rlawlals
I agree with you. How many megapixels do you need for it to take HD quality pictures and videos? Till what point does the pixels become useless? ( you won't need that many pixels)
Apparently their "dumb" phones now support multi-tasking and even have a nice, Pre-like task-switcher, as seen is this review of the Samsung Monte S5620: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=uxx1Ow7_MU8
So why doesn't Bada?
The font looks Symbianish. I wonder if it is based on Symbian after all.