Samsung Waves Hello To Wave S8500 Smartphone With Bada OS and SUPER AMOLED Screen

It was hardly a well-kept secret by any stretch of the imagination, but at MWC Samsung's Wave S8500 has raised its head. It's running the new Bada OS, and has one of those 3.3-inch SUPER AMOLED screens we saw before.

The SUPER AMOLED screen is a 3.3-inch capacitive job, with an 800 x 480 resolution—not shabby, to say the least. The larger 3.5-inch display of the iPhone for example has 480 x 320 pixels. Anyway, it's also the first phone to have Bluetooth 3.0, as rumored yesterday, using the 802.11 protocol for transferring data at around 24Mbps. Speedy-fast, you could say.

A 1Ghz processor and 2GB of storage has been popped into the typical-looking Samsung exterior, along with a 5.0-megapixel camera (with autofocus and flash), capable of shooting video at 720p. Wi-Fi, GPS and HSDPA connectivity round it off.

Going back to the Bada OS, this was first unveiled in November but now we know that it's compatible with Samsung's TouchWiz 3.0 interface (a step up from the 2.0 Plus, which wasseen on the leaked Monte last week).

It'll be out in April, and while I've never particularly been impressed by a Samsung phone before (far from it, in fact), the Wave does have some interesting specs—like that AMOLED display. Wait and hear our verdict when we get hands-on with it, because as you know...things don't always turn out like the marketer boasts.

Samsung S8500 Wave caught in a spigot of leaks

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.

Samsung Wave S8500 hands-on

We didn’t hide our confusion back at the Samsung bada launch late last year; at the time, a disappointingly vague presentation and a complete absence of demo devices left us uncertain as to where Samsung expected the new smartphone-for-the-masses platform to fit into the current ecosystem. Having spent some decent hands-on time with the first bada phone, the Samsung Wave S8500, and our very own hands-on at MWC 2010 – we’re a little more confident in the device if not the positioning. Check out our first impressions – and video – after the cut.

Looking at the Wave as its own device, we were surprisingly impressed. The hardware is pleasingly slim and has a real premium feel, while the 3.3-inch AMOLED display is bright and color saturated. Samsung are calling it a “Super AMOLED” panel, since they’ve integrated the capacitive touch layer and the display layer; that makes for a slimmer unit altogether, but it also gets rid of the “recessed” display effect seen on other devices. Put next to a Google Nexus One, as you can see in our gallery below, the Wave’s display is flush with the screen surround, while the Nexus One’s display looks dropped deeper down.

While we were dealing with pre-production hardware, the capacitive display seemed pretty responsive. Contrary to Samsung’s initial publicity, the Wave does indeed support multitouch, though not across all of its apps. The photo gallery and browser both respond to pinch-zooming, but the maps application only supports Samsung’s single-finger zoom system. Saying that, it’s a slick implementation: press a finger and hold it on the screen and up/down arrows appear; slide your finger up or down and the Wave zooms accordingly. It’s particularly usable when you’re trying to operate the phone single-handed, and we’re glad to see it’s an alternative zoom method to the software that also supports multitouch gestures.

Video obviously looks great on the AMOLED display, but Samsung have also thrown in an unusual skipping feature. Rather than blinding dragging the scroll bar, the Wave quickly analyses the entire clip and presents a grid of thumbnails picked out from along the timeline. Tapping one of those thumbnails takes you to that point in the video, and starts playback. There’s also strong media integration with Samsung’s Social Media Hub, which pulls in networks like Facebook and Twitter and allows for direct uploads.

Unfortunately things aren’t near market-ready at this point, and all of the Wave devices we tried out proved to be glitchy and crash-prone at some point. The web browser often hung and then needed to be force-closed, and most of the apps on the floor demo units fell short of the kind of stability a commercial release (especially for those coming from featurephones) would require. Of course, Samsung have a while to polish things up before sales begin.

That’ll also give developers an opportunity to get moving on Wave, and those we spoke to – with the obvious proviso that they’re at the show at Samsung’s behest – complemented bada for its ease of programming. One gaming title – in which you guide a moth via a network of reflected beams of light – is the first mobile attempt from a PS3 development studio; they told us they’d need to spend four-times the amount coding cost on marketing if they were attempting to break into the iPhone gaming market. bada is based on C++, which does make things easier, though of course it’s also easy to make a splash when you’re one of the first handful of developers on a platform.

Overall, the Wave S8500 is another decent Samsung phone, and should appeal to those looking for impressive media playback and social network integration. Whether Samsung will make an equal splash with bada remains to be seen; it’ll take a combination of compelling devices along with developer support, and Samsung will have to convince consumers and industry alike that bada really is a smartphone OS rather than the featurephone OS it, if we’re honest, looks like.

THE BEST FIRMWARE/ROM FOR SAMSUNG WAVE(S8500 WAVE I-S8530 WAVE II)

All you guys were asking which is the best firmware to flash to .

So now Here is the answer the best Bada 2.0 firmware is the Latest Official Chinese Firmware S8xxxZCLB4 ( don’t worry It also has an English language option).

Changes to the original Bada 2.0

Added Features

1. First Time the Official firmware has a Call Recording Option Inbuilt So now you can record calls even without the use of any third party software and also this feature works flawlessly.

2.It also has an option in Voice Recoder app to cut your recorded calls or cut your recorded voice the way you want it.

3.There is a Packet data On/Off button also added in the top bar and now the top bar buttons are in the order.

Wifi |Bluetooth|Sound|Data|Auto rotation

4.New Set of wallpapers.In settings –>display there is festive wallpaper option.

5.In call settings Phone No. Locator In Settings–> Call .

6.IP calling (Don’t Know about this feature should be some VoIP thing for Chinese people).

7.Auto silent In Settings –> General

Earlier Problems That Have been Solved

1.Fast responsive and no lags.

2.Looks to have a better memory management very less “Low Memory” popups even when I Run many apps In the background.

3. The browser doesn’t show “Page Too Large” problem as we saw in many bada firmwares.

4.Better battery life but not great.

I think These are Enough reasons for you to say that It is the Best firmware for bada that has been released yet nad it is really worth flashing to.

Samsung Wave S8500 Bada smartphone gets unofficial AOKP Jelly Bean ROM

Prior to Samsung producing Galaxy devices based on Google’s Android operating system, the company had attempted to create a mobile platform of their own called Bada. While Bada has its fair share of fans, we guess the platform did not take off the way that Samsung had anticipated. Unfortunately this also meant that there are customers out there with Bada smartphones who are either waiting out their contracts or simply do not have the spare cash to get a new Android powered one. Well the good news is that if you own a Bada smartphone, particularly that of the Samsung Wave S8500, you’re in luck as it seems that XDA member Tigrouzhen has managed to get an unofficial AOKP Jelly Bean ROM up and running on the phone.

This is pretty awesome because we know that there are some Android phones out there that have yet to receive Android 4.1 Jelly Bean, but an old Bada handset beat them to the punch. It is reportedly working for the most part, although there have been some comments left by forum members claiming that the radio feature isn’t working which means that calling and SMS functionality is a no-go, but its developer claims that its performance is “Better then (sic) Samsung Nexus without overcklock and kernel optimized now.” Given that its radio isn’t working, we suggest maybe you give this a pass especially if the S8500 is your main phone, but if you’ve got an old S8500 lying around, perhaps you might be interested in giving this ROM a shot by going to the forums for the download.

Samsung Wave S8500 Gets ICS, Bada Users Everywhere Rejoice

In 2010, things were looking up for Samsung. Riding the success of their Galaxy S series of Android phones and having produced record numbers of electronics components, the hardware giant must have felt nearly invincible when they released the Samsung Wave S8500—the flagship device for their new Badaplatform. The much touted device featured hardware on par with the highest end of Android smartphones at the time. However, it floundered. Even Samsung’s $2.7 million competition was not enough to breath life into the fledgling OS. After several phone releases and nothing but heartache, Samsung decided to dump their proprietary platform and merge it with Intel’s Tizen project.

The failed development of Bada has left a hole in the hearts of many of the owners who still have decent hardware, but no OEM support for the software running on it. Back in 2011, we here on Portal even mentioned the initial attempts to port Android to the Wave S8500. Development fizzled though, and it was only until recently when XDA Recognized Developer (and all around genius) mikegapinski decided he was going to revive the Android port program by not just porting Android, but it’s latest iteration: Ice Cream Sandwich.

And so on June 23, 2012 he announced the first publicly available port of Ice Cream Sandwich for the Samsung Wave S8500, and his intentions to port ICS to the S8530 as well. So head over to the original thread and give your Wave some much needed love.

Samsung Wave S8500 (Bada) Running Unofficial AOKP Jelly Bean

The Bada-droid project for the Samsung Wave series of devices has been brewing in the background for quite some time. It is nowhere near as public as some of the other ports for other devices simply because the Wave is not such a popular device and also because of its overall unavailability in several parts of the world (at least through official channels). For those who did make the jump to the Bada (soon to be Tizen) and are regretting it, it is a relief to see some development focused on porting other operating systems to the devices.

In the case of the Wave S8500, the device has been steadily receiving ports from some very dedicated devs. The latest installment, which was brought to you by XDA Forum Member Tigrouzen, is an unofficial build of the infamous AOKP ROM series. This ROM is fully featured, with several things working right off the bat. While not exactly a good comparison due mainly to hardware difference, the developer posted a Quadrant screenshot that compared favorably with other devices. However, members are reporting that several things are not working right as of yet, such as the radio which enables the device to make calls, send SMS, and a few other things that you normally like to do with a phone. This ROM is installed on the SD card, which means that the data and system are stored in there as well. The dev has been able to get about 500 MB of storage, which is enough for most mild Android users.

Please test the build and leave some feedback (and logcats… lots of logcats) so that the dev can try to figure out what the present bugs are, and most importantly, how to fix them.

Better then Samsung Nexus without overcklock and kernel not all optimised too

You can find more information in the original thread.

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Samsung Wave S8500

The Samsung Wave GT-S8500 (or "Samsung Wave") is the first touchscreen smartphone running the Bada Operating Systemdesigned by Samsung, which was commercially released on June 1, 2010.^[2][3][4] The Wave is a slim touchscreen phone powered by Samsung's "Hummingbird" CPU (S5PC110), which includes 1 GHz ARM Cortex-A8 CPU and a built-in PowerVR SGX 540 graphics engine, "Super AMOLED" screen and 720p high-definition video capture capabilities. Due to shortage of Super AMOLED screens, Samsung released a similar version called Wave II and ceased production of the S8500 model.

Hardware features

Screen

The screen is a 3.3-inch (84 mm) capacitive touchscreen Super AMOLED with an anti-smudge oleophobic coating on top of the scratch-resistant tempered-glass ( Gorilla Glass Display ). The screen resolution is 800x480 WVGA with 283 PPI.^[5]

Processor

The phone features a 1 GHz SoC,^[6] which internally contains an ARM Cortex A8 CPU core that is identical to the ARM Cortex CPU core used in Apple's A4 package on package SoC.^[7][8] The graphics engine of the device is a PowerVR SGX 540 GPU which is said to be capable of generating 90 million triangles per second (same as the SoC used on the Samsung Galaxy S). It also has 512MB of RAM.^[9]

Camera

The phone features a 5 megapixel camera EDOF which supports 2560 x 1920 pixels, along with autofocus, LED flash, Geo-tagging, face, blink detection, image stabilization, touch focus,etc. Shooting modes include beauty shot, smile shot, continuous, panorama and vintage shot. As a camcorder it is able to shoot HD recording (1280x720) at 30 FPS with flash. As well as this, it is also able to record slow motion video (320x240) at 120 FPS with flash.

Operating System

The Wave was the first phone with Samsung's own Operating System, BADA, meaning "Ocean". Though quite impressive at the beginning, this OS had its hiccups in mid term with the phone hanging constantly and restarting frequently. Samsung worked on the higher versions of BADA 1.2 and later 2.0. BADA 1.2 was released to the world in phased manner and it was much stable with respect to BADA 1.0. But due to lack of a powerful core in the OS, application development was limited, a situation which samsung hoped to rectify by launching BADA 2.0. But BADA 2.0 is yet to be fully released to the world due to lots of bugs found and hence, application development has been throttled.

In January 2012, Samsung declared^[10] that it was planning to merge bada with Linux based Tizen which is developed in collaboration intel. This move is seen effectively as Samsung dumping its own OS on which they have worked for quite a few years.

Other features

Other features include A-GPS, 2 GB/8 GB of internal storage with a microSDHC slot for an additional 32 GB. It also has a magnetometer (compass), a proximity sensor, an accelerometer, 5.1-channel surround sound Mobile Theater, music recognition, a fake call service, smart search, Social Hub and it is the first phone to support Bluetooth version 3.0.

Radio connectivity includes Bluetooth 3.0, Wi-Fi 802.11 b/g/n, HSDPA 3.6 Mbit/s and HSUPA 2 Mbit/s.

This phone is available with both European/Asian 3G bandings and the North American 3G bandings. The North American 3G bandings version of the phone is a limited availability and is not available in the US.

[edit]Software features

User Interface

The phone is the first smartphone to feature the Samsung bada operating system platform. The UI is Samsung's own Touchwiz 3.0. Touchwiz 3.0, like the two predecessors (Touchwiz 2.0 and Touchwiz), utilises widgets. The three most notable widgets pre-installed in Touchwiz 3.0 are Daily Briefing (which includes all essential information such as weather, finance, AP mobile news and schedule), Feeds and Updates and Buddies now (which allows users to call, send texts to and read Facebook/Twitter feeds off their favourite contacts). Users are allowed to have up to 10 homescreens to add widgets.

Applications

For Internet browsing the Samsung Wave has the Dolfin Browser v2.0 (based on WebKit) (or 3.0 depends by the firmware version). This browser supports Flash, but it is disabled by default to improve page loading speed.

By default, the phone comes with Picsel Viewer which is capable of reading .pdf 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), 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

MP3, AAC, AAC+, e-AAC+, WMA, AMR, WAV, MP4, MPEG4, H.263, H.264, WMV, FLV, DivX, XviD, MKV, (FLAC Bada 1.2) Also supports subtitles.

Bada 2.0 Support

On the end of December 2012 the OS was updated to Bada 2.0 in many countries gradually. The first official Bada 2.0 was the LA1. With Bada 2.0 the Touchwiz reach the version 4.0, the GUI was totally revisited and are included many features as full multitasking, WAC, vocal commands, text-to-speech, speech-to-text, ChatON, Caster, new version of DLNA and social apps and the new browser Dolphin 3.0 with download manager.

New S8500 Official Firmware

or the people living in those countries it’s time for joy as after a very long wait you have finally got bada 2.0 released for your device officially and now you can upgrade your firmware through kies ( if you still haven’t flashed bada 2.0 on your own ).

For the people not living in those countries try the new firmware (by flashing of course ) and give a review below in the comments i will add your review to the post and tell all of us how is the new firmware .

Waiting for some of the reviews.

You can download the firmwares from below.

PDA	Bada	Date	CSC	Country/Carrier	Download link
S8500DXLD1	2	2012 April	S8500OLBLD1	Thailand	Download
S8500DXLD1	2	2012 April	S8500OLBLD1	Vietnam	Download
S8500DXLD1	2	2012 April	S8500OLBLD1	Malaysia	Download