Samsung WAVE S8500 Smartphone

The Samsung WAVE S8500 Smartphone is one of the most affordable Google Android Froyo 2.2 version capable smartphone available now. In the grey market, it can only be had at 18.3k, although its official price is at around 22k. It also has a 3.3" 16M-color Super AMOLED capacitive touchscreen, one of its many selling point. If you have not that much dough, one of the other bang for buck phone out there is another Samsung smartphone, the Samsung Galaxy Spica i5700, which in the grey market can be had for only 13.3k. The Samsung Galaxy Spica is capable up to Android 2.1 Eclair only though, and only have a 3.2" 262K TFT display screen. Either of the two are bang for buck smartphones in their class. You can't go wrong with any. If you have money to burn, you might opt for the Samsung Galaxy S, which some say is better than the iPhone 3Gs or even the iPhone 4. The Samsung Galaxy S is priced at 32k and is exclusively distributed ala iPhone in the Philippines by Globe Telecom but only for a month and will then be freely available elsewhere after.

Here's the specs of the Samsung Wave:

Samsung S8500 WAVE

2G Network GSM 850 / 900 / 1800 / 1900
3G Network HSDPA 900 / 2100
Size Dimensions 118 x 56 x 10.9 mm
Weight 118 g
Display Type Super AMOLED capacitive touchscreen, 16M colors
Size 480 x 800 pixels, 3.3 inches
- Accelerometer sensor for UI auto-rotate
- Multi-touch input method
- Proximity sensor for auto turn-off
- Scratch-resistant surface
- TouchWiz UI 3.0
- Handwriting recognition
- Smart unlock
Sound Alert types Vibration, MP3 ringtones
Speakerphone
- 3.5 mm audio jack
- DNSe (Digital Natural Sound Engine)
Memory Phonebook, Photocall
Call records
Internal 2GB / 8GB
Card slot microSD, up to 32GB, buy memory
Data GPRS Class 10 (4+1/3+2 slots), 32 - 48 kbps
EDGE Class 10, 236.8 kbps
3G HSDPA 7.2 Mbps; HSUPA, 2 Mbps
WLAN Wi-Fi 802.11 b/g/n
Bluetooth, v3.0 with A2DP
USB, microUSB v2.0
Camera Primary 5 MP, 2592 x 1944 pixels, autofocus, LED flash
Features Geo-tagging, face, smile and blink detection, image stablilization, touch focus
Video,720p@30fps, video light
Secondary
Features OS Bada OS
CPU ARM Cortex A8 1GHz
Messaging SMS,MMS,Email,Push Email,Palringo IM
Browser WAP 2.0/xHTML, HTML
Radio Stereo FM radio with RDS, FM recording
Games + downloadable
GPS,with A-GPS support,Samsung Mobile Navigator
Java,MIDP 2.0
- Digital compass
- Organizer
- Image editor
- MP3/WAV/WMA/eAAC+ player
- MP4/H.263/H.264/WMV/Xvid/DivX video player
- Voice memo
- T9
Standard battery, Li-Ion 1500 mAh
Stand-by Up to 450 h
Talk time Up to 8 h 30 min
Music play Up to 35 h