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Samsung Announces 3 NEW Wave Smartphones!

August 30th, 2011 Dane

Samsung has announced 3 new bada smartphones all running bada 2.0 ahead of the IFA show this week. First is the Samsung Wave 3 which is a very nicely spec’d phone with a 1.4 GHz processor and a SAMOLED display!! The Samsung M and Y Wave phones come in as mid-range and low-end devices but still have decent specs.

All three devices are going to be on display at IFA this week.

Samsung Wave 3 Specs

  • Bada 2.0
  • 4-inch Super AMOLED display
  • 1.4GHz processor
  • 5-megapixel rear-facing camera with LED flash
  • Front-facing VGA camera
  • Made of anodized aluminum
  • HSDPA at 14.4Mbps
  • HSUPA at 5.76Mbps
  • 1,500 mAh battery
  • Bluetooth 3.0
  • Wi-Fi 802.11 b/g/n

Samsung Wave M Specs

  • Bada 2.0
  • 3.65-inch HVGA TFT display (320 x 480)
  • 832MHz processor
  • NFC technology
  • 5-megapixel rear-facing camera with LED flash
  • Front-facing VGA camera
  • 1,350 mAh battery
  • Bluetooth 3.0
  • Wi-Fi 802.11 b/g/n

Samsung Wave Y Specs

  • Bada 2.0
  • 3.2-inch HVGA TFT display (320 x 480)
  • 2-megapixel rear-facing camera with LED flash
  • 1,200 mAh battery
  • Bluetooth 3.0
  • Wi-Fi 802.11 b/g/n

The Wave 3 obviously wins the prize for the most exciting device in the lineup, but with the addition NFC technology and a similar 5-megapixel camera, the Wave M looks like a fantastic runner-up. All three devices are set to launch this October.

Source: TechnoBuffalo

Posted in News & Rumors, Samsung Wave 3, Samsung Wave M, Samsung Wave Y, bada 2.0, bada Devices Tags: , , , , , , , , , 3 Comments »

What If Samsung Buys webOS?

August 24th, 2011 Dane

As I am sure most of you heard, this past week HP dropped the ball on webOS. While they are not producing any more consumer hardware for webOS…there are rumors that they may license it and that Samsung is one of those who may buy it. If that were to happen, what would happen to the bada platform? What changes would we see? Would it be a good thing?

While Samsung would certainly not drop bada…I think you would see webOS and bada combined into one OS. This would only benefit consumers and developers as webOS is a beautiful OS and an easy platform to develop for. I think webOS is the underdog that everyone roots for in the mobile industry. Everyone sees its potential but no one gives it the support it needs. If Samsung were to buy it, it would have that support. Just think about the multitasking, apps, hardware, and overall publicity Samsung bada would get if webOS was combined with it. I think we would probably see some interface changes, more connected services, more stable OS, and a smoother UI overall. It would only benefit bada users in my opinion. While Samsung has not said anything publicly about buying the platform…it would make since for them to do so and there are rumors according to engadget that HP has said “a number of companies including Samsung are interested in buying the platform”. With all all of the things going on with Android/Google/Motorola, HTC looking to make there own OS, and Blackberry making a comback…it seems more companies are following Apples way of creating software to go along with hardware. Samsung could use this as an advantage and really do some good things. What do you think? Do you think Samsung should buy the webOS platform and combine it with bada OS? I want to hear from you all!!

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S8500XPKH2 and S8530XPKH2 Online!

August 18th, 2011 waveboy

This the latest beta firmware of bada 2.0 for the Wave I & Wave II. Samsung has compiled both firmwares on Monday 8th August. Below you will find a short list with some things that has been changed or improved:

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- New icon (Sound & vibrate) in the statusbar
- Better Graphics startup screen Chaton app
- Slightly changed keyboard
- New startup screen Twitter app
- Slightly changed Youtube icon (Menu)
- Faster scrolling through photos
- Voice output, you download German test voicefiles. With voice output your device can read incoming sms text messages, email and more. I haven’t test this feature at the moment.

- Can’t log into my Samsung account.

Problems:
With this firmware I faced for the first time some real problems, because it will crash on some (stranges) moments (mainly using the twitter app). I advice you to set the debug level on low, so you won’t get a blue screen with detailed crashlogs instead your device will reboot automatically.

For the ones who are using KIES for backups, I can advice you to backup only the contacts and sms text messaging. I won’t suggest to use a full backup, I’ve tried it 2 times but both times my device crashed and it got stuck into a reboot loop.

Overall I can say that the devices are a bit faster (snappier) but it also crashed often than before. Since this is just a beta firmware its normal that it crashed.
Once again I’m warning people that they should be aware of these things. If you want a stable 2.0 firmware you should wait till 2.0 is ready!!

How to fix Samsung account problem:
There is a new Samsung Account login in this beta Firmware and it doesnt work, users cannot type in passwort and after klicking on logon bada crashes. But there is a workaround, so everyone can use the downloads in samsung apps.  At the first startup page to configure language time, and samsung account there is still the old login page.  You can trick the wave by removing your simcard starting the phone with it, then it forgets that it was already the first time started.  After that simply add your simcard and logon on the first startup page, after that you will not see in settings/accounts any account but you can use them as always.  Email accounts can be handeled over the settings/email and so on.  You will see Samsung Account over samsungapps.

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bada 2.0 is 95% complete!

August 15th, 2011 Dane

It seems like Samsung is nearing completion of bada 2.0. According to this image found in our forums and on badablog.ru, bada 2.0 is 95% done. This means that the official release of the OS is on pace for the time frame Samsung had originally set. The roll out of bada 2.0 will not happen all at once and instead will be a done week by week and region by region. It is also expected that bada 2.0 will be officially launched along side a new flagship device called the Wave III. Stay tuned to badaforums for more information

Discuss it here

Source: badablog.ru

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