Tech Drunk Staff 
The Bada OS 1.2 based Samsung Wave II S8530 smartphone has been launched in India. Similar in specification and looks to the original Wave S8500, this latest in the line of Samsung smartphones has an increased 3.7-inches display. It runs efficiently on both 2G and 3G network.
Its sleek ans slim 123.9×59.8×11.8 mm dimension with 135gms weight allows it to slide smoothly into your pocket and stay attractively in your hand. It has Accelerometer sensor, Multi-touch input method, Proximity sensor, TouchWiz, Handwriting recognition and smart unlock for smooth controls.
The Wave II S8530 runs on the ARM Cortex A8 1GHz processor and has an in-built 2 GB storage memory that can be expanded upto 32 GB using micro SD memory card. It is powered by a Standard Li-ion 1500mAh battery offering a maximum stand by time upto 800h (2G) / upto 600h (3G) and maximum talk time upto 6h (2G) / upto 8h 20min (3G).
This smartphone has a super AMOLED capacitive touchscreen of resolution 480 x 800 pixels with 720p video recording at 30fps. It also support DivX/XviD videos, social networking sites like Youtube, Facebook and Twitter. This handset grabs images with a 5 megapixel camera with a resolution of 2592×1944 pixels and other features like Auto Focus and LED Flash, geo-tagging, face, smile and blink detection, image stabilization, touch focus, image editor etc.
The connectivity features of this smartphone sounds promising with GPRS, EDGE, 3G, WLAN, Bluetooth and USB along with WAP and HTML browser. You can think of fast and easy surfing, chatting, emailing, uploading, downloading etc. Messaging options include SMS, MMS, Email, Push Email and Palringo IM.
Stereo FM radio with RDS and live FM recording option and Digital Natural Sound Engine (DNSe) featured audio jack gives you quality sounds. It also supports multiple music formats, a feature music lovers would love.
The overall Samsung Wave II S8530 specifications include:
- 3.7-inch Super-clear LCD capacitive touchscreen display
- 480 x 800 pixels with multi-touch input method
- 5 MP camera with LED Flash
- Bada OS 1.2
- ARM Cortex A8 1GHz processor
- Stereo FM radio with RDS
- FM recording
- 3G HSDPA 3.6 Mbps; HSUPA, 2 Mbps
- Bluetooth 3.0 with A2DP
- Wi-Fi 802.11 b/g/n
- MicroUSB 2.0
- 3.5 mm audio jack
- 2 GB internal memory
- 32 GB micro SD support
- A-GPS support
- Li-Ion 1500 mAh battery
All these and more priced for Rs 19,000 sounds like a pretty good deal. Affordably upgraded with extra sophistication and sleekness, Samsung Wave II S8530 could be another super seller from the world’s second largest mobile phone manufacturer.
