The first phone to run Samsung’s own bada operating system, the Samsung Wave S8500, has globally sold 1 million units. Justin Hong, project lead and architect of bada, announced this on his twitter feed.
It took under one month for the Samsung Wave to achieve this, pretty impressive if you ask me. Didn’t expect the Wave to sell this good.
Check Justin Hong’s twitter post here (google translated version).
The first bada phone, the Samsung Wave S8500, is now available in Finland. The phone comes also with two other firsts; it is the first Bluetooth 3.0 capable device, and the first phone with a Super AMOLED screen.
Technical specs for the Samsung Wave:
The phone is now priced at 350€ before subsidies and taxes.
It appears that the at least a few new Samsung Wave (S8500) phones are delivered with a virus on board the microSD card. This is at least the case in Germany, where a virus Win32/Heur is being distributed via the file slmvsrv.exe that is on the memory card that comes with the phone.
I’d recommend that you install a good enough antivirus program, and also format the card that is included (or then buy a new bigger one).
First official TV ads for the Samsung Galaxy S (I9000), and Samsung Wave (S8500) have been posted on Youtube. Both phones will come with Samsung’s new Super AMOLED screen. The Galaxy S will run on Android 2.1(Eclair), while Wave will run on Samsung’s new Bada OS.
Judging by the TV ads, these phones look interesting. In Finland you can currently pre-order both of these phones. The Galaxy S comes with a price of 649.90€, while the Wave carries a price of 428.90€. Both prices are without subsidies, but come with 22% VAT.
Hit View Post to see the ads.
In the video you can see the amazingly bright Super AMOLED screen seen on the recently announced Samsung Wave (S8500).
Samsung just announced the first Bada phone at Mobile World Congress. The Wave, S8500, comes with an amazing 3.3″ Super AMOLED screen at a resolution of 800 x 480. But, the screen doesn’t support multitouch(!)? On top of Bada, runs a TouchWiz 3.0 UI. Other interesting features include Wifi 802.11n, Bluetooth 3.0, 1GHz processor, 5 megapixel camera, a-GPS, accelerometer, 2GB or 8GB internal storage with a possibility for a microSD card. The phone supports DivX, XviD, MP3 and WMV plus a virtual 5.1 surround sound and 720p recording and decoding.
The phone will be world wide available in April, but Samsung didn’t give us a price just yet. Check out the full specs and a hands-on video after the break.
