Samsung Wave II Now Available in India

Bada

by Clinton Jeff | on January 27th, 2011 | 1 comment

Samsung India just dropped us an email to let us know that the Samsung Wave II S8530 is now available and selling in India.

As you might already know, the Wave II boasts a 3.7 inch Super Clear LCD display at 800×480 pixels resolution, a 1 GHz processor, 5 megapixel camera with LED flash and HD (720p) video recording, Wi-Fi, HSDPA, Bluetooth 3.0, 2GB internal memory, microSD card slot, 32GB expandable memory, 3.5mm headphone jack, 1500mAh battery and 3G capabilities.

Not too bad, eh? If it’s anything like the Original Samsung Wave, it’s going to do pretty well. The Samsung Wave II is selling at a price of Rs. 20,900/-.

Full Press Release below:

Samsung enriches its ‘bada’ offering with the launch of Wave II in India
- Complete with an expansive multi-media entertainment, rich applications, integrated
social hub and enhanced user experience, the all new Wave II delivers a powerful mix of
upgraded Smart performance
- With the launch of WAVE II , Samsung’s Smartphone offering on the bada platform is
enhanced to 5 nos. in India
New Delhi, January 27th 2010: Samsung India Electronics Pvt Ltd, the leading
mobile phone provider today announced the launch of Wave II (S8530) on the ‘bada’
platform. ‘bada’ is Samsung’s own proprietary OS and with its WAVE series of mobiles
based on the bada platform, the Company is seeking to provide users with an enhanced
integrated, immersive and intuitive Smartphone experience.
Announcing the launch of Wave II in India, Mr. Ranjit Yadav, Country Head, Samsung
Mobile & IT stated: “The ‘bada’ platform has been designed as a fully integrated platform
which supports cutting-edge applications and services. The launch of Wave II represents
our efforts to grow this platform further. The new Wave II enhances the consumers’ smart
phone experience with advanced entertainment, communication, push e mail, display and
superior usability.”
Designed to deliver a super fast performance, the new Samsung Wave II is equipped
with a 1GHz processor that enables superior Multimedia, Multitasking and Application
experience and adds to the overall usability of the device. With an enlarged 3.7” super
clear LCD display, Samsung Wave II offers an unparalleled brighter view, improved outdoor
visibility and a wider viewing angle. Since the super clear LCD display is slimmer, brighter
and more vivid, therefore watching movies and enjoying games, videos and photos is a
richer experience on the new handset. The Seamless Aluminum body of Wave II makes an
unparallel style statement.
The Samsung Wave II features Quicktype by T9 which provides a faster and easier way to
input text than standard texting. Instead of punching individual letters, users with Quicktype
T9 just need to swipe their finger in a continuous motion over the letters of the word,
and the mobile intuitively spells out the word, which is being typed. Along with this quick
texting features, the Samsung Wave II’s advanced Social Hub feature integrates all contact
information from SNS, IM and e-mail allowing the users to track information and view history
of activities with their peer group. Touchwiz 3.0 user interface of Wave II features Multiple
Screens which can be customized for easy access to Multi Widgets like ‘Buddies Now”
and “Feeds and Update’’ which enable users to connect with their friends with just one
click. With the HD video player and recorder, watching movies or videos is convenient on
the new Wave II. The HD video player provides universal compatibility for easy viewing
of different file types with a multi codec support for DivX, Xvid, MPEG4, real, MKV, ASF
and WMV. Users of Samsung Wave II can enjoy a whole range of mobile Apps from the
Samsung Apps store and download exciting applications from the ‘bada’ platform. ‘bada’
is interactive and provides a simple, intuitive UI enabling effortless customization and
interactivity. It is service oriented and provides unmatched support for social networking,
device synchronization, content management and location-based services. ‘bada’ is open
and configurable allowing developers to create a host of exciting new applications.
The Wave II has a 5 megapixel camera with flash LED and a 1500 mAH battery which
provides 15 hours of talk time on 2G network and 8 hours of talk time on 3G. The 2GB
internal memory of Samsung Wave II is further expandable up to 32 GB and it comes with a
Free 2GB Memory card. The Samsung Wave II is priced at Rs. 20,900/-.
With the launch of WAVE II, Samsung’s mobile phone offering of the bada’ based handsets
in the WAVE series has been expanded to include 5 models in the price range between Rs
8800/- to Rs 20,900/-.

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