Samsung S8530 Wave II
Manufacturer	Samsung Electronics
Slogan	Born Smart
Series	S-Series
Compactible networks	GSM: 850/900/1800/1900/2100 3G: 900/2100 HSDPA: 3.6 Mbit/s HSUPA: 2 Mbit/s
Availability by country	October 2010
Predecessor	Samsung Wave S8500
Related	Samsung Jet, Samsung Galaxy S, Samsung Wave S8500
Form factor	Slate
Dimensions	123.9 x 59.8 x 11.8 mm
Weight	135 g
Operating system	bada 1.2 with TouchWiz 3.0
CPU	ARM Cortex A8 clocked at 1 GHz (Samsung S5PC111)
Memory	internal 2 GB / 8 GB; 256MB + 128MB of RAM
Removable storage	microSD(HC) up to 32 GB
Battery	Li-Ion 1500 mAh
Data inputs	T9 trace, Abc, QWERTY, Multi-touch input method, Handwriting recognition
Display	3.7" 800x480 @ 283 PPI Super Clear LCD display with Gorilla Glass
Rear camera	5 MP (4:3)
Media	MP3, AAC, AAC+, e-AAC+, WMA, AMR, WAV, MP4, FLAC, MPEG4, H.263, H.264, WMV, DivX, XviD, MKV ...
Connectivity	802.11b/g/n Wi-Fi, A-GPS, Bluetooth 3.0, microUSB 2.0
Other	- Scratch-resistant surface - Smart unlock - Accelerometer - Proximity Sensor - Magnetometer - Digital compass

The Samsung Wave II S8530 (or "Samsung Wave II") is the Successor of Samsung Wave S8500 smartphone running the bada 1.2 operating system designed by Samsung, which was commercially released on October, 2010. The Wave is a slim touchscreen phone powered by Samsung's "Hummingbird" CPU (S5PC110), which includes 1 GHz ARM Cortex-8 CPU and a powerful built-in PowerVR SGX 540 graphics engine, "Super LCD" screen and 720p high-definition video capture capabilities. Shortage of Super AMOLED screens was one of the primary reasons for the release of this model.

Hardware features

Design

The phone is made of mostly metal alloy and is measured at 10.9 mm thick. In terms of form factor, it is a slate style featuring 3 physical buttons on the front: call, reject/ shutdown, and main menu button.

Screen

The screen is a 3.7-inch (94 mm) capacitive touchscreen Super LCD with an anti-smudge oleophobic coating on top of the scratch-resistant tempered-glass (Gorilla Glass Display) touch panel which has been shown to be capable of resisting extreme friction (scratch-resistant). The screen resolution is 800x480 WVGA.

Processor

The phone features a 1 GHz SoC, which internally contains an ARM Cortex A8 CPU core that is identical to the ARM Cortex CPU core used in Apple's A4 package on package SoC. The Phone graphics engine is SGX 540 which is said to be capable of generating 90 million triangles per second (same as the SoC used on the Samsung Galaxy S). And 256MB+128MB RAM (same hardware as Samsung Wave S8500).

Camera

The phone features a 5 megapixel which supports 2592 x 1944 pixels, along with autofocus, LED flash, Geo-tagging, face, blink detection, image stabilization, touch focus,etc. Other than these features it has various shooting modes such as beauty shot, smile shot, continuous, panorama and vintage shot. As a camcorder it is able to shoot 720p HD recording (1280x720) at 30 FPS with flash. As well as this, it is also able to record slow motion video (320x240) at 120 FPS with flash.

Other features

Other feature includes A-GPS, 2 GB/8 GB of internal storage with a microSDHC slot for an additional 32 GB. It also has a magnetometer, a proximity sensor, an accelerometer, 5.1-channel surround sound Mobile Theater, music recognition, a fake call service, smart search, Social Hub and it is the first phone to support Bluetooth version 3.0.

In addition to Bluetooth 3.0, the phone also features Wi-Fi 802.11 b/g/n, HSDPA 3.2 Mbit/s and HSUPA 2 Mbit/s.

This phone is available with both European/Asia 3G bandings and the North American 3G bandings. Keep in mind that the North American 3G bandings version of the phone is a limited availability and is not available in the US.

Software features

User interface

The phone is one of the few smartphone to feature the Samsung bada operating system platform. The UI is Samsung's own Touchwiz 3.0. Touchwiz 3.0, like the 2 predecessors (Touchwiz 2.0 and Touchwiz), utilises widgets. The 3 most notable widgets pre-installed in Touchwiz 3.0 are Daily Briefing (which includes all essential information such as weather, finance, AP mobile news and schedule), Feeds and Updates and Buddies now (which allows users to call, send texts to and read Facebook/Twitter feeds off their favourite contacts). Users are allowed to have up to 10 homescreens to add widgets.

Applications

In terms of Internet Browser, Samsung Wave is pre-installed with Dolphin Browser v2.0 (based on WebKit). While this browser supports Flash it is disabled by default to improve page load time.

By default, the phone comes with Picsel Viewer which is capable of reading .pdf and Microsoft Office file formats. Users from selected countries can buy and download Picsel Office Editor from Samsung Apps.

As for Samsung apps, users can also download applications, games and widgets from the application store.

Other software includes the GPS software that comes with this phone (LBS Route 66), Palringo IM, Facebook, Twitter, social hub, mini diary, daily briefing, memo, video player, FM radio, media browser, voice recorder, e-mail and pre-installed asphalt5.

Media support

MP3, AAC, AAC+, e-AAC+, WMA, AMR, WAV, MP4, FLAC, MPEG4, H.263, H.264, WMV, AVI, DivX, XviD, MKV

Android porting

Due to many owners of the phone disliking the Bada software many people have worked on porting the popular Android O.S to the Wave 2. The ported versions known are Froyo, Gingerbread, Ice Cream Sandwich, Jelly Bean and Kitkat. However they are still being developed and some features, such as GPS, may be limited or not function as intended.

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Samsung Wave GT-S8500
Manufacturer	Samsung Electronics
Slogan	Born Smart
Series	S-Series
Compactible networks	GSM: 850/900/1800/1900/2100 3G: 900/2100 3G: 850/1900 (NAM Version) HSDPA: 3.6 Mbps
Availability by country	June 2010
Successor	Samsung Wave II GT-S8530
Related	Samsung Galaxy S, Samsung Wave II S8530
Form factor	Slate
Dimensions	118 x 56 x 10.9 mm (72.0272 cm³)
Weight	118 g
Operating system	bada with TouchWiz 3.0
CPU	ARM Cortex A8 clocked at 1 GHz (Samsung S5PC110)
GPU	PowerVR SGX 540
Memory	384 MB RAM
Storage	1GB / 2 GB / 8 GB
Removable storage	microSD(HC) up to 32GB
Battery	Li-Ion 1500 mAh
Data inputs	T9 trace (bada 1.2), Abc, QWERTY, Multi-touch input method, Handwriting recognition
Display	3.3" Capacitive touchscreen, 800x480 @ 283 PPI (0.38 Megapixels), Super AMOLED, (PenTile Matrix) display with Gorilla Glass
Rear camera	5 MP Auto Focus, EDOF, with LED Flash
Media	MP3, AAC, AAC+, e-AAC+, WMA, AMR, WAV, MP4, MPEG4, H.263, H.264, WMV, DivX, XviD, MKV, (FLAC bada 1.2)
Connectivity	802.11b/g/n Wi-Fi, A-GPS, Bluetooth 3.0, microUSB
Other	- Scratch-resistant surface (Corning Gorilla Glass) - Smart unlock - Accelerometer - Proximity Sensor - Magnetometer - Digital compass

The Samsung Wave (or "Samsung Wave GT-S8500") is the first smartphone running the Bada Operating System designed by Samsung, which was commercially released on June 1, 2010. The Wave is a slim touchscreen phone powered by Samsung's "Hummingbird" CPU (S5PC110), which includes 1 GHz ARM Cortex-A8 CPU and a built-in PowerVR SGX 540 graphics engine. It also has a "Super AMOLED" screen and 720p high-definition video capture capabilities. Due to shortage of Super AMOLED screens, Samsung released a similar version called Wave II and ceased production of the S8500 model.

Hardware features

Screen

The screen is a 3.3-inch (84 mm) capacitive touchscreen Super AMOLED with an anti-smudge oleophobic coating on top of the scratch-resistant tempered-glass ( Gorilla Glass Display ). The screen resolution is 800x480 WVGA with 283 PPI.

Processor

The phone features a 1 GHz SoC, which internally contains an ARM Cortex A8 CPU core that is identical to the ARM Cortex CPU core used in Apple's A4 package on package SoC. The graphics engine of the device is a PowerVR SGX 540 GPU which is said to be capable of generating 90 million triangles per second (same as the SoC used on the Samsung Galaxy S).

Camera

The phone features a 5 megapixel EDOF camera which supports 2560 x 1920 pixels, along with autofocus, LED flash, Geo-tagging, face and blink detection, image stabilization, touch focus,etc. Shooting modes include beauty shot, smile shot, continuous, panorama and vintage shot. As a camcorder it is able to shoot HD recording (1280x720) at 30 FPS with flash. As well as this, it is also able to record slow motion video (320x240) at 120 FPS with flash.

Operating system

In January 2012, Samsung declared that it was planning to merge bada with the Linux-based Tizen which is developed in collaboration with Intel. This move is seen effectively as Samsung dumping its own OS on which they have worked for quite a few years.The Wave was the first phone with Samsung's own Operating System, Bada, meaning "Ocean". Though quite impressive at the beginning, this OS had its hiccups in mid term with the phone hanging constantly and restarting frequently. Samsung worked on the higher versions of Bada 1.2 and later 2.0. Bada 1.2 was released to the world in a phased manner and it was much more stable than Bada 1.0 was. But due to a lack of a powerful core in the OS, application development was limited, a situation which Samsung hoped to rectify by launching Bada 2.0. But Bada 2.0 is yet to be fully released to the world due to lots of bugs found and hence, application development has been throttled.

Other features

Other features include A-GPS, 2 GB/8 GB of internal storage with a microSDHC slot for an additional 32 GB. It also has a magnetometer (compass), a proximity sensor, an accelerometer, 5.1-channel surround sound Mobile Theater, music recognition, a fake call service, smart search, Social Hub and it is the first phone to support Bluetooth version 3.0.

Radio connectivity includes Bluetooth 3.0, Wi-Fi 802.11 b/g/n and HSDPA 3.6 Mbit/s.

This phone is available with both European/Asian 3G bandings and the North American 3G bandings. The North American 3G bandings version of the phone is a limited availability and is not available in the US.

Software features

User interface

The phone is the first smartphone to feature the Samsung bada operating system platform. The UI is Samsung's own Touch-wiz 3.0. Touch-wiz 3.0, like the two predecessors (Touch-wiz 2.0 and Touch-wiz), utilizes widgets. The three most notable widgets pre-installed in Touch-wiz 3.0 are Daily Briefing (which includes all essential information such as weather, finance, AP mobile news and schedule), Feeds and Updates and Buddies now (which allows users to call, send texts to and read Facebook/Twitter feeds off their favorite contacts). Users are allowed to have up to 10 home screens to add widgets.

Applications

For Internet browsing the Samsung Wave has the Dolphin Browser v2.0 (based on WebKit) (or 3.0 depends by the firmware version). This browser supports Flash, but it is disabled by default to improve page loading speed.

By default, the phone comes with Picsel Viewer which is capable of reading .PDF and Microsoft Office file formats. Users from selected countries can buy and download Picsel Office Editor from Samsung Apps.

As for Samsung Apps, users can also download applications, games and widgets from the application store.

Other software includes the GPS software that comes with this phone (LBS Route 66), Facebook, Twitter, social hub, mini diary, daily briefing, memo, video player, FM radio, media browser, voice recorder, e-mail and pre-installed Asphalt 5.

Media support

MP3, AAC, AAC+, e-AAC+, WMA, AMR, WAV, MP4, MPEG4, H.263, H.264, WMV, FLV, DivX, XviD, MKV, (FLAC Bada 1.2) Also supports subtitles.

Bada 2.0 support

On the end of December 2011 the OS was updated to Bada 2.0 in many countries gradually. The first official Bada 2.0 was the LA1. With Bada 2.0 the Touch-wiz reach the version 4.0, the GUI was totally revisited and are included many features as full multitasking, WAC, vocal commands, text-to-speech, speech-to-text, ChatON, Caster, new version of DLNA and social apps and the new browser Dolphin 3.0 with download manager.

Unofficial Development

Android Porting

Due to many owners of the phone disliking the Bada software many people have worked on porting the popular Android O.S to the Wave, The ported versions known are Froyo, Gingerbread, Ice Cream Sandwich, Jelly Bean and Kitkat. However they are still being developed and some features, such GPS, may be limited or not function as intended.

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Bada
Developer	Samsung Electronics
Written in	C++
OS family	Posix
Working state	Stopped (Replaced by Tizen)
Source model	Mixed: proprietary and open source components
Latest release	2.0.6 SDK / February 28, 2013
Marketing target	Smartphone
Available in	Multilingual
Package manager	Samsung Kies
Kernel type	RTOS or Linux kernel
Default user interface	TouchWiz, graphical (touchscreen)
License	Proprietary
Website	www.bada.com

Bada (stylized as bada; Korean: 바다) was an operating system for mobile devices such as smartphones and tablet computers. It was developed by Samsung Electronics. Its name is derived from "바다 (bada)", meaning "ocean" or "sea" in Korean. It ranges from mid- to high-end smartphones.

Bada 2.0 Home screen

To foster adoption of Bada OS, since 2011 Samsung reportedly has considered releasing the source code under an open-source license, and expanding device support to include Smart TVs. Samsung announced in June 2012 intentions to merge Bada into the Tizen project, but would meanwhile use its own Bada operating system, in parallel with Google Android OS and Microsoft Windows Phone, for its smartphones.

All Bada-powered devices are branded under the Wave name, but not all of Samsung's Android-powered devices are branded under the name Galaxy.

On 25 February 2013, Samsung announced that it will stop developing Bada, moving development to Tizen instead. Bug reporting was finally terminated in April 2014.

History

Bada and the mobile software distributions it is related with.

After the announcement, the Wave S8500 was first shown at Mobile World Congress 2010 in Barcelona in February 2010. At that time, applications running on the first Bada phone were demonstrated, including Gameloft's Asphalt 5.

After the launch, companies such as Twitter, EA, Capcom, Gameloft and Blockbuster showed their support for the Bada platform.

In May 2010, Samsung released a beta of their Bada software development kit (SDK) to attract developers. Samsung also began the Bada Developer Challenge with a total prize of $2,700,000 (USD). In August 2010, Samsung released version 1.0 of the SDK.

In August 2011, Samsung released version 2.0 of the SDK. This new version provides many enhancements over its predecessors.

The first Bada-based phone was the Samsung Wave S8500, released in April 2010, which sold one million handsets in its first four weeks on the market.

Versions

The Samsung S8500 Wave was launched with version 1.0 of the Bada operating system. Soon after the launch, Samsung released version 1.0.2, which included minor fixes for European users. The latest version 1.2 was released with the Samsung S8530 Wave II phone. The alpha-version of Bada 2.0 was introduced on February 15, 2011, with the Samsung S8530 Wave II handset.

The current flagship Bada handset is the Samsung Wave 3 S8600, running Bada 2.0

Samsung Apps

With the release of the Samsung Wave, Samsung opened an international application store, Samsung Apps, for the Bada platform. Samsung Apps has over 2400 applications. This store is also available for Android and Samsung feature phones.

Architecture

Bada, as Samsung defines it, is not an operating system itself, but a platform with a kernel configurable architecture, which allows using either a proprietary real-time operating system hybrid (RTOS) kernel or the Linux kernel. According to copyrights displayed by Samsung Wave S8500, it uses code from FreeBSD, NetBSD and OpenBSD. Despite numerous suggestions, there is no known bada device to date that is running the Linux kernel. Similarly, there is no evidence that bada uses the same or similar graphics stack as the Tizen OS, in particular EFL.

The device layer provides core functions such as graphics, protocols, telephony and security. The service layer provides more service-centric features such as SMS, mapping and in-app-purchasing. To provide such features there is a so-called bada Server. The top layer, the framework layer provides an application programming interface (API) in C++ for application developers to use.

Bada provides various UI controls to developers: It provides assorted basic UI controls such as Listbox, Color Picker, and Tab, has a web browser control based on the open-source WebKit, and features Adobe Flash, supporting Flash 9, 10, or 11 (Flash Lite 4 with ActionScript 3.0 support) in Bada 2.0. Both the WebKit and Flash can be embedded inside native Bada applications. Bada supports OpenGL ES 2.0 3D graphics API and offers interactive mapping with point of interest (POI) features, which can also be embedded inside native applications. It supports pinch-to-zoom, tabbed browsing and cut, copy, and paste features.

Bada supports many mechanisms to enhance interaction, which can be incorporated into applications. These include various sensors such as motion sensing, vibration control, face detection,accelerometer, magnetometer, tilt, Global Positioning System (GPS), and multi-touch.

Native applications are developed in C++ with the Bada SDK, and the Eclipse based integrated development environment (IDE). GNU-based tool chains are used for building and debugging applications. The IDE also contains UI Builder, with which developers can easily design the interface of their applications by dragging and dropping UI controls into forms. For testing and debugging, the IDE contains an emulator which can run apps.

Criticism of Bada 1.x

Picture being taken using the Samsung Wave 525 running on Bada 1.0

• In the beginning, all VoIP over Wi-Fi applications were banned which meant that popular applications such as Skype could not be used. In March 2011 this restriction was removed, allowing VoIP applications to run on the platform.

Some publications have criticized Bada 1.x over the following issues:

• The external sensor API is not open-ended, preventing new types of sensors or unexpected technology developments from being added in the future by third parties.
• Due to "performance and privacy issues", Bada 1.x applications cannot access the SMS/MMS inbox or receive incoming SMS/MMS notifications. This limit was removed in version 2.0.
• Bada versions 1.x only allowed one Bada third party application to run at a time. Multitasking applications was only possible between the base applications and one Bada third party application. This limit is removed since version 2.0.
• Applications such as Whatsapp are not developed for Bada 1.2, this has not been resolved in Bada 2.0
• The GPS facility was poor in Bada 1.0. It was further updated in Bada 2.0
• Many countries, such as South Africa, still await the release of Bada 2.0

Bada 2.0

Bada 2.0 version was shown at IFA 2011 in Berlin and was released in the end of December 2011 with a lot of new functions and improvements compared to version 1.2, introducing features such as:

• Full HTML5 support
• WAC 2.0 compatibility
• Full multitasking
• Wifi-Direct technology
• Adobe Flash lite 4 (mobile Flash Player version, supports Action script 3.0 of Adobe Flash 10 and 11)
• Dolphin Browser 3.0 with download manager
• Smart-wallpapers
• Text-to-speech
• Speech to text
• Vocal commands based on Vlingo
• Push notification
• NFC (Near-field communication technology)
• New security policies and protection functions
• New camera manager
• New GUI
• OpenAL
• inclusion of new proprietary applications and services such as ChatON (instant messaging software), Caster (to share multimedia content and web pages with PC), Music Hub (a music store similar to iTunes)

Devices

Samsung's first phone running the Bada platform was the Wave S8500. The Wave is a slim touchscreen phone powered by Samsung's "Hummingbird" CPU (S5PC110), which includes a 1 GHz ARM Cortex-A8 CPU and a built-in PowerVR SGX 540 3D graphics engine, "Super AMOLED" screen and 720p high-def video capabilities.

The Samsung S8530 Wave II was made available in November 2010. It has a 3.7" Super Clear capacitive LCD touchscreen. It is preloaded with Bada 1.2.

At the end of 2011, Samsung released three new models with Bada 2.0. The Samsung Wave 3 (S8600) is a high-end model featuring 1.4 GHz CPU with integrated Adreno 205 GPU, 4" AMOLED screen and 5 MP camera. The Wave M and Wave Y are lower-priced models, using slower CPUs, smaller LCD screens, and lacking other features found in the Wave 3.

Market shares

	% global smartphone sales	Smartphones sold (millions)
Q2 2013	0.4	0.84
Q1	0.7	1.37
Q4 2012	1.3	2.7
Q3	3	5.2
Q2	2.7	4.2
Q1	2.7	3.8
Q4 2011	2.1	3.1
Q3	2.2	2.5
Q2	1.9	2.1
Q1	1.9	1.9
Q4 2010	2.0	2.0
Q3	1.1	0.9
Q2	0.9	0.6

According to Canalys, Samsung shipped 3.5 million phones running Bada in Q1 of 2011. This rose to 4.5 million phones in Q2 of 2011.

According to Gartner in Q1 2012 bada gain a grow index of +43% and rose from 1.9% share of the market in the same period last year to 2.7%.

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