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expertreviews‘s review Edit

The Samsung Wave is the first phone to use Samsung's new Bada operating system. It has a huge AMOLED touchscreen, a 1GHz processor and a 5-megapixel camera. The screen is one of the brightest and most colourful we've seen yet, with fantastic contrast and a responsive capacitive touchscreen.
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Jul 05, 2010
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letsgomobile‘s review Edit

The Samsung Wave S8500 is a neat, complete phone, only I wonder what this phone could have done with the Android operating system.
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Dec 13, 2010
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mobileengadget‘s review Edit

The Wave is a lot like a baby Galaxy S. What you lose in screen size and performance, you gain with better materials, build quality, battery life, and camera features (namely an LED flash and a dedicated 2-stage camera button). Bada, surprisingly, behaves a lot like a baby Android. It arguably provides the best feature phone experience currently available, but still leaves us craving for more. In North America, where we have 4 subsidized variants of the the Galaxy S to chose from, the Wave makes little sense (especially without the required 3G bands). But for the rest of the world, we're pretty sure the Wave is one of the best wannabe smartphones available.
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Sep 30, 2010
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ITreviews‘s review Edit

The Samsung Wave has some top-notch specifications including a superb screen. The new Bada operating system means the app store is short of content and third party software compatibility is not great, though, so if these things matter to you, steer clear for now.
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Jul 05, 2010
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HardwareZone‘s review Edit

What should be of importance to consumers is the retail pricing of this bada smartphone, which is priced at S$698. At this price point, we find its offerings more than reasonable. For mobile phone users wanting to try something new and aren't tied down to any particular app commitments or needs, Samsung's new Wave is a breath of fresh air. Furthermore, when you factor in its good blend of hardware features, form factor and performance, the Samsung Wave is indeed a good phone for your consideration.
8.5 Rated at:

Published on:
Aug 23, 2010
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MacNN‘s review Edit

How you like the Wave could depend entirely on what you're upgrading from. If you're new to smartphones or a light user, the Wave could be a great start. It's reasonably easy to use, it's fast, it's beautiful, and it's web friendly. As a hardware exercise, it's hard to fault.
7.0 Rated at:

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Aug 14, 2010
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GSMArena‘s review Edit

The Samsung S8500 Wave is the first phone to run a brand new OS and this may look great on its resume but isn’t what makes it worthwhile. The potential is all there and the UI user-friendliness is at its peak so even if Bada OS never takes off, the Wave would make a perfect feature phone nonetheless.
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Jun 01, 2010
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reghardware‘s review Edit

It's a quality handset with a terrific AMOLED multi-touch screen, fast operation, a decent camera and access to Samsung's small but growing App store. There are a few niggles to be sorted out, like home pages that you can add but not remove, the inability to add shortcuts to home pages, and the social networking system needs a bit of work to put it up there with the best. Still, it's generally easy and intuitive to use, and packs in as many features as you could wish for.
8.0 Rated at:

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Jun 22, 2010
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PC Pro‘s review Edit

A great-value phone with all the features packed in, but Bada in its first outing doesn’t quite pull it all together
6.5 Rated at:

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Jul 08, 2010
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www.trustedreviews.com‘s review Edit

In the Wave, Samsung has given Bada an impressive debut. It's a very well built, elegant handset, that's packed with all the latest features. We do have a few niggles with the software and have concerns about the support it will get from app developers, but these concerns are offset by a cracking price.
8.0 Rated at:

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Jul 12, 2010
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CNET Reviews‘s review Edit

For international markets, the Samsung Wave is a nice, budget-friendly foray into the world of smartphones, but there are more affordable and more full-featured options for the U.S.
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Jun 30, 2010
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Pocket-lint‘s review Edit

As things stand at the moment, the Samsung Wave is a little cheaper than the iPhone or HTC Desire and you do get impressive media features and a screen to die for. An impressive handset we can't help liking, but it also leaves room for improvement.
8.0 Rated at:

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Jun 15, 2010
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Phone Arena‘s review Edit

The Samsung Wave S8500 is an incredibly appealing smartphone, with an operating system that still has a lot of room for improvement. And we mean all that in the big way.
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Jun 04, 2010
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MobileBurn‘s review Edit

The Samsung S8500 Wave is the first Samsung bada OS powered smartphone to hit the market. The Wave feels like a TouchWiz feature phone on steroids, and with a smarter user interface. Michael tests it out for us in this in-depth review with HD video samples from the Wave's 720p capable camera.
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Jun 23, 2010
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PC Advisor‘s review Edit

Samsung really isn't bringing anything new to the table with Bada: Its features are really no different on what you'd find on the iPhone, webOS phones or Android phones. But we suspect that is not Samsung's main focus here. Samsung sees Bada phones as being accessible to everyone, no matter what your income or tech experience may be. It is hard to predict how Bada will compete with the legions of Android phones taking over the mobile world, but phones as nicely designed as the Samsung Wave are hard to ignore.
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Feb 15, 2010
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SlashGear‘s review Edit

The Wave S8500 is most definitely a phone of two halves. Its hardware is modern, tactile and brilliant in places; its software is in-distinctive, underwhelming and feels short-sighted in terms of where the rest of the industry – even where just Samsung themselves – is headed. Still, you could argue that Samsung have succeeded in their positioning of the handset simply by the fact we’re comparing it to smartphones rather than feature-phones.
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Jun 04, 2010
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TechRadar UK‘s review Edit

On paper, it would be easy to slate the Samsung Wave as nothing more than a tarted up Samsung Jet, with a bigger and glossier screen and a 25% more powerful processor.
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Published on:
May 25, 2010
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