Want Bada and a physical keyboard but don’t want to spend a ton of money? Then the Wave 533 might be for you! The Wave 533 is your typical low to mid-range Bada powered device but it has some pretty cool features that can be found on the high-end devices. This looks like a good one but can it get the job done? Lets find out!

Design and Keyboard

The first thing you will notice when you look at the phone is that it’s thicker than the Wave 525 (same phone without a keyboard). This is because the Wave 533 supports a 4-row physical QWERTY keyboard and that makes the phone a winner in my book. Here’s why: first of all, the keys are island-style which means they are spaced out and not all together in a grid (ex: Droid 2). Having them spaced out makes for easier, faster typing. Secondly, the spacebar has a dedicated row. A lot of Samsung keyboards have put the bottom row of letters in the same row as the spacebar which makes typing a little funky. Having the spacebar below all the letters on a dedicated row like on the 533 makes typing feel more like using an actual computer keyboard. Third and last but not least, the keys are slightly raised and have a very nice tactile, click feel to them. In my opinion, it does not feel cheap at all. The only thing I do not like is that there is no dedicated number row but I can look past that. Overall, this keyboard is extremely good and could be compared to the keyboard found on the high-end Epic 4G (Galaxy S phone on Sprint).