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Samsung Wave 723 Review

October 30th, 2010 Dane

The Samsung Wave 723 is a low-end Bada handset that will no doubt turn heads with its price. At just 240 euros, the Wave 723 is a good starter device for someone coming from a feature phone that wants to experience a smartphone  or someone wanting to learn what the Bada OS is all about without breaking the bank. Hopefully after reading this review, you will have a better idea of what the Wave 723 is all about since it is not as popular as its big brother (Wave S8500).

Display

The screen of the Wave 723 comes in at 3.2 inches which is not much bigger than the Wave’s 3.3 inches. The screen on the 723 is capable of 256,000 colors and has a pixel density of 240×400. The biggest difference (or drawback) is that the Wave 723 uses an LCD screen…not Samsung’s Super AMOLED display. This means that the screen on the 723 will use more power and not be as bright as the Wave’s screen. The Wave 723 does have an accelorometer which allows the user to turn the phone horizontally to view webpages and pictures. The screen on the Wave 723 is also a capacitive screen with multitouch enabled allowing users to “pinch to zoom” when viewing pictures, webpages, etc. Overall, the screen is pretty decent one for a low end device.

Power and Operating System

The Wave 723 does not disappoint under the hood. The phone is powered by a 600mhz  processor and will come with 90mb of internal memory. There also is a microSD card slot that will support up to a 16gb card for added storage. The phone will run TouchWiz 3.0 ontop of Samsung’s Bada OS. Overall, the phone is quite snappy and should be able to handle most functions easily.

Connectivity Options

When it comes to connectivity, the Wave 723 offers some good options. The phone will have built in WiFi (b/g/n) along with 3G connectivity at HSDPA to 900 and 2,100MHz which is capable of download speeds of 7.2Mbps. The  Samsung Wave 723 is operating on frequencies GSM 850, 900, 1,800 and 1,900 MHz. You can add GPRS and EDGE class 10 with a multislot 32. It has Bluetooth 3.0 which will transmit information at 24Mbps, a rate 8 times higher than previous versions of Bluetooth. Last but not least, the Wave 723 has a 3.5mm headphone jack and microUSB 2.0 port for charging and connecting to a computer. The phone powers on using a 1200-1500 milliamperes battery.

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Samsung Wave 2 PRO Gets Reviewed!

August 13th, 2010 Dane

Recently, I was on ZDnet and I stumbled accross a review of the new Samsung Wave 2 PRO phone written by John Chan who works for Cnet – Asia. This is one of the first full reviews of the phone I have seen (most sites are still reviewing the original Wave). In short, he believes that “Samsung’s latest Wave handset follows in the budget-priced footsteps of the original. Chan also says that will include a few exciting extras, like a full QWERTY keyboard.” Here is the full review by John Chan:

Upside

As mentioned, the S5330 sports a slide-out QWERTY keyboard in landscape mode. We haven’t had a chance to try typing on it, but the layout looks sensible with clearly separated keys.

The Wave 2 Pro will function fine as a media player, thanks to features like a 3.5mm audio connector, microSD card slot for memory expansion and even an FM tuner.

Though Samsung is not calling Bada a smartphone platform, the software allows for many advanced features. Some of these include a WebKit-based browser and support for Microsoft Exchange. The company is also working to increase the number of widgets and apps available for Bada, so that’s good news for the S5330.

The screen on the Wave 2 Pro has a resolution of 400×240 pixels (WQVGA). Though it pales in comparison to high-end WVGA screens, it’s still a little better than the outdated QVGA variant.

Connectivity-wise, the S5330 comes with a quad-band GSM radio, Wi-Fi, Bluetooth and GPS for navigation.

Downside

With so many connectivity options thrown in, we were disappointed to see HSDPA excluded. This means getting high-speed connectivity when out and about will require the user to locate a Wi-Fi hotspot.

Outlook

Samsung has not announced the price of the Wave 2 Pro, though we know it will be released some time in Q4. Given its feature set, we expect it to be inexpensive, but this pits it against budget Android smartphones that offer more functions at similar or lower prices.

Source: ZDNet/Cnet-Asia

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**Samsung HAS announced the price of the Wave 2 Pro in Russia but at the time of this review, the pricing information had not been released and still hasn’t been fully released for other parts of Europe. In Russia, it should cost around 10,000 Rubles (about $330USD).**

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User Review: Samsung Wave by MiAmRA

July 8th, 2010 Dane


Here is my Samsung Wave review. In this review I want to inform you guys about my experience.
I have used the Wave for almost a month and have been using it as my main phone. This review is mainly based on the firmware XXJF1 from June, which is the latest firmware that Samsung have released through Samsung KIES.

Reason for buying the Wave:
Before I bought the Wave I was using a iPhone 3G as a main phone. I was looking for a new phone since September last year! My new phone had to be a big step forward from the iPhone 3G. From the moment I was looking for a new phone I had played with some new phones like the 3GS, Nexus One, Desire and HTC HD2. But none of these phone could get me excited to buy them, except for the Palm Pre but the problem was that Palm didn’t release the phone in the Netherlands. At the end of 2009 Samsung announced their own Smartphone platform in the name of bada. Since that time I was closely following bada. Why? Because I like their idea of bringing the Smartphone to every lifestyle plus If knew that Samsung’s first bada phone would be ‘something new’ from the rest of the phones in market. If you are looking at the bottom of the smartphone market you will see that it’s a big market where nobody is standing out in mine opinion. In January 2010 there were some leaked interface snapshots of bada, there were some things that I didn’t like, but I knew I couldn’t make a judgment because it wasn’t the final interface. Then on 14th February Samsung announced the Wave, the first phone that is running the bada platform, I saw some leaked photos 12th February about the design and I liked it. Almost full metal enclosure, Super AMOLED, fast processor on paper it looked like this phone got everything to be a hit seller. On 14th February I also saw some hands-on, the phone was amazingly zippy and colors from the screen were fantastic. From that moment I knew that it could be my new phone. I had read some previews and some other comments. The things that I heard were that the prototypes crashed sometimes and that Samsung hasn’t got a good reputation about software updates. I thought about these things but I knew that Samsung wouldn’t release a phone that is buggy and running on a new platform were they have invested a lot of money in and it’s a big part of their strategy. Later in May I saw some new reviews and from that moment I made a final decision that the Wave will be my new phone. Main reasons? Latest technology like Atmel Maxtouch touch screen, Super AMOLED, Hummingbird processor and the software was looking fast and stable on video reviews.

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