Samsung is launching another smart phone using its open Bada platform, in the Samsung Wave 723.
The Wave 723 (model GT-S7230E) looks like a little brother to the first Wave in the GT-8500. We thought the GT-8500 was a great looking phone that had some great hardware, but it was a little complicated to use.
Our sister site CNET said that the device will be released in Germany from September, and the UK hopefully soon after that.
It looks quite stylish, with a metallic back and leather flip cover. Specs for the device include a 3.2-inch WQVGA TFT-LCD screen, 5-megapixel camera, 3G and 802.11 Wi-Fi support.
It will run using the TouchWhiz 3.0 interface, with Bluetooth, music player and the Dolphin web browser. It will also have assisted GPS and a microSD card slot supporting up to 16GB of memory.
There is also the opportunity to use the Bada apps store, and hopefully Samsung can put a bit on work into this as it was one of the criticisms we had of the original Wave.
There's no information about the processor it runs on, but we can make a guess that, as the display is inferior to the Super AMOLED screen of the original Wave, the device will be somewhat cheaper. .
Is Bada still worth the work Samsung is putting into it? Could it be a good choice as a budget smart phone? Let us know.
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anonymous 1 September, 2010 19:13
In my opinion the uci they've been using on their mp3 players would work fantastically well as a phone OS. Not as a smart phone OS, but better than most proprietary phone OS's out there. the p3's user experience especially on later firmwares has been very, very good, and the hardware in the p3 isn't anything like what phones today are packing, so all lagginess etc. would be gone.
Not too sure about Bada as I haven't had much experience with it, but I imagine most people buying in this price range will want a phone that feels polished in operation and "just works", rather than choking along on a smart phone OS which gets choppy frequently and shoves half finished app stores and the like under their noses.