Samsung is serious about their goals. The Korean phone maker previously stated that they are intent on making the smart phone a product for everyone. And while having an impressive 3.3 inch super AMOLED touch screen, a 5 mega pixel camera and a 1GHz CPU will certainly attract the attention of many gear heads viewing phone specs online, the original Samsung S8500 Wave smart phone misses out on the key market demographic of the casual smart phone user.
Of course, bringing out a proprietary operating system on a low end smart phone simply feels wrong too. Which is why it makes perfect sense that shortly right after the Korean company has launched the Wave, they are now announcing the Samsung Wave 2 (looks like the Wave was made simply to introduce the Bada OS to the tech community).
The new smart phones are much closer to Samsung’s ideals. The Wave 2 and Wave 2 Pro are mid range handsets with basic features, the Bada OS and a well designed phone body (in some ways, we prefer how the Wave 2 looks over the original Wave).
The Samsung S5250 Wave 2 smart phone comes with the Bada operating system, a 3.2 inch TFT touch screen (with a modest resolution of 240 x 400 pixels), a 3 mega pixel camera, an accelerometer, the TouchWiz user interface, 80 MB of internal storage and support for a good range of media files (it even has an FM radio). All in all, it is certain to be a well recommended handset when it finally comes out.
Samsung also announced the Wave 2 Pro. In terms of specs, the two devices are almost entirely alike with the only difference being the slide out QWERTY keyboard on the Pro edition of the handset. It is a very wise move from Samsung as having a keyboard is a very important factor for some users –and being able to choose between having a keyboard or not will certainly be appreciated by everyone.
