The Samsung Wave S8500 (or "Samsung Wave") is a smartphone developed and produced by Samsung Electronics . It is the first smartphone to run the Bada operating system developed by Samsung Electronics, which was commercially released on May 24, 2010. The Wave is a 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 successor to the device called Wave II and ceased production of the original S8500 model.
27-406: 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. The phone features a 1 GHz SoC , which internally contains an ARM Cortex A8 CPU core, the same model as Apple's A4 processor . The graphics engine of
54-402: 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
81-405: A thin-film transistor (TFT) array, which functions as a series of switches to control the current flowing to each individual pixel . Typically, this continuous current flow is controlled by at least two TFTs at each pixel (to trigger the luminescence), with one TFT to start and stop the charging of a storage capacitor and the second to provide a voltage source at the level needed to create
108-663: A Super AMOLED. Super AMOLED displays, such as the one on the Samsung Galaxy S21+ / S21 Ultra and Samsung Galaxy Note 20 Ultra have often been compared to IPS LCDs , found in phones such as the Xiaomi Mi 10T , Huawei Nova 5T , and Samsung Galaxy A20e . For example, according to ABI Research , the AMOLED display found in the Motorola Moto X draws just 92 mA during bright conditions and 68 mA while dim. On
135-425: A camcorder it is able to shoot HD recording (1280×720) at 30 FPS with flash. The Wave was the first phone with Samsung's own Linux based Operating System, Bada , meaning "Ocean". Samsung worked on the later versions of Bada 1.2 and later 2.0. Bada 1.2 was released to the world in a phased manner as it was designed to improve stability. In January 2012, Samsung declared that it was planning to merge Bada with
162-405: A constant current to the pixel, thereby eliminating the need for the very high currents required for passive-matrix OLED operation. TFT backplane technology is crucial in the fabrication of AMOLED displays. In AMOLEDs, the two primary TFT backplane technologies, polycrystalline silicon (poly-Si) and amorphous silicon (a-Si), are currently used offering the potential for directly fabricating
189-630: A download manager. 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 as GPS, may be limited or not function as intended. Reviews: Forums: Super AMOLED AMOLED ( active-matrix organic light-emitting diode ; / ˈ æ m oʊ ˌ l ɛ d / )
216-815: A group chat room , and the Trunk which stores media files shared in chats. When a user logs in ChatON, the user's buddy list is available on any connected device. ChatON was viewed as an alternative to WhatsApp . ChatON was introduced at IFA on August 29, 2011, in Berlin, Germany, with initial service for iOS, Android, Blackberry, and Samsung phones. Support was expanded to include Android tablets, Windows Phone, and Bada phones. The ChatON mobile application could be downloaded from Samsung Apps & Google Play for Android, Apple AppStore for iOS, App World for Blackberry, and Microsoft Market for Windows Mobile. On March 31, 2015,
243-457: A millisecond, and they consume significantly less power . This advantage makes active-matrix OLEDs well-suited for portable electronics, where power consumption is critical to battery life. The amount of power the display consumes varies significantly depending on the color and brightness shown. As an example, one old QVGA OLED display consumes 0.3 watts while showing white text on a black background, but more than 0.7 watts showing black text on
270-541: A new solution-coated AMOLED display technology that is competitive in cost and performance with existing chemical vapor deposition (CVD) technology. Using custom modeling and analytic approaches, Samsung has developed short and long-range film-thickness control and uniformity that is commercially viable at large glass sizes. Compared to other display technologies , AMOLED screens have several advantages and disadvantages. AMOLED displays can provide higher refresh rates than passive-matrix, often have response times less than
297-468: A user deleted his account, his or her devices that were connected through the account are initialized and all data of chat room and server was deleted. The ChatON service has been discontinued by Samsung since 2015. When it was still available, it provided services such as voice/video chatting, translation, PostON, Anicon , Animessage, SMS/MMS exchanging feature, as well as basic services such as buddy registration, chatting and multimedia sharing. An API
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#1732793590236324-518: A website client to enable users without a supported smartphone platform to chat via desktop and mobile web browsers. Multiple windows on PC screen, which is wider than mobile, facilitated chat with buddies and share contents. Usage of the web client was tied to a Samsung account instead of a phone number, and buddy lists from mobile accounts could be imported to the web client. Users received the same messages regardless of version while they maintained their web and mobile version's profiles independently. If
351-486: A white background, while an LCD may consume only a constant 0.35 watts regardless of what is being shown on screen. A new FHD+ or WQHD+ display will consume much more. Because the black pixels turn completely off, AMOLED also has contrast ratios that are significantly higher than LCDs. AMOLED displays may be difficult to view in direct sunlight compared with LCDs because of their reduced maximum brightness. Samsung's Super AMOLED technology addresses this issue by reducing
378-692: Is a type of OLED display device technology. OLED describes a specific type of thin-film-display technology in which organic compounds form the electroluminescent material, and active matrix refers to the technology behind the addressing of pixels . Since 2007, AMOLED technology has been used in mobile phones, media players, TVs and digital cameras, and it has continued to make progress toward low-power, low-cost, high resolution and large size (for example, 88-inch and 8K resolution) applications. An AMOLED display consists of an active matrix of OLED pixels generating light (luminescence) upon electrical activation that have been deposited or integrated onto
405-1053: 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. 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. For Internet browsing
432-728: The iriver Clix 2 portable media player. In 2008 it appeared on the Nokia N85 followed by the Samsung i7110 - both Nokia and Samsung Electronics were early adopters of this technology on their smartphones. Manufacturers have developed in-cell touch panels, integrating the production of capacitive sensor arrays in the AMOLED module fabrication process. In-cell sensor AMOLED fabricators include AU Optronics and Samsung . Samsung has marketed its version of this technology as "Super AMOLED". Researchers at DuPont used computational fluid dynamics (CFD) software to optimize coating processes for
459-758: The ChatON service was discontinued in all markets. ChatON was installed by default on Samsung Galaxy smartphones and tablet PCs, such as Galaxy Pocket 2 and Galaxy Young 2 and Galaxy S Duos 3, Galaxy Gear, Galaxy Star 2, S5 Mini, and S5, and Galaxy Camera. It was also available on other devices depending on the installed operating system. For mobile devices, ChatON was available on Android (v2.2 or higher), Bada (v2.0 or higher), iOS (v4.3 or higher), BlackBerry (touch devices with v6.0 or higher, non-touch devices with v5.0 or higher), and Windows Mobile (v6.5 only for Omnia 2, and v7.0 for devices made by Samsung). For Windows PC, ChatON runs on PCs with Windows XP or higher. For Macs, it runs on OS X 10.6 or higher. ChatON offered
486-523: The Linux-based Tizen operating system that was developed in collaboration with Intel. Despite the collaboration, was not supported by the Wave. Unofficial ports of Android were made due to the restrictions and the eventual cease in development of Bada. Versions ported include Android Froyo, Gingerbread, Ice Cream Sandwich, Jellybean, KitKat, Lollipop and Marshmallow. Other features include A-GPS , 2 GB/8 GB of internal storage with
513-619: 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
540-494: The active-matrix backplanes at low temperatures (below 150 °C) onto flexible plastic substrates for producing flexible AMOLED displays. AMOLED was developed in 2006. Samsung SDI was one of the main investors in the technology, and many other display companies were also developing it. One of the earliest consumer electronics products with an AMOLED display was the BenQ-Siemens S88 mobile handset and, in 2007,
567-510: 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. The Samsung Wave supports MP3 , AAC, AAC+, e-AAC+, WMA, AMR, WAV, MP4, MPEG4, H.263, H.264 , WMV, FLV, DivX, XviD, MKV and FLAC file formats. It also supports subtitles. In many countries at
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#1732793590236594-567: 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). The phone features a 5 megapixel EDOF camera which supports 2560 × 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
621-524: The end of December 2011, the operating system was gradually updated to Bada 2.0. The first official Bada 2.0 version was LA1. With Bada 2.0, the TouchWiz UI reached version 4.0, the GUI was completely redone, and included many new features, such as full multitasking, WAC, voice commands, text-to-speech, speech-to-text, ChatON , Caster, a new version of DLNA, social apps and the new Dolphin 3.0 browser with
648-696: The first generation AMOLED. The generic term for this technology is One Glass Solution (OGS). Below is a mapping table of marketing terms versus resolutions and sub-pixel types. Note how the pixel density relates to choices of sub-pixel type. (bits) 3040x1440 2280x1080 3040x1440 3040x1440 6.1 6.3 6.4 6.8 550 401 522 498 Samsung Galaxy S10 Samsung Galaxy Note 10 Samsung Galaxy S10+ Samsung Galaxy Note 10+ Samsung Galaxy Fold Samsung Galaxy Z Flip 2400x1080 3200x1440 6.1 6.4 6.7 6.8 6.9 386 (External display resolution for Samsung Galaxy Z Fold 2) 563 525 511 421 394 515 411 ChatON ChatON
675-535: The other hand, compared with the IPS, the yield rate of AMOLED is low; the cost is also higher. "Super AMOLED" is a marketing term created by Samsung for an AMOLED display with an integrated touch screen digitizer : the layer that detects touch is integrated into the display, rather than overlaid on top of it and cannot be separated from the display itself. The display technology itself is not improved. According to Samsung, Super AMOLED reflects one-fifth as much sunlight as
702-568: The size of gaps between layers of the screen. Additionally, PenTile technology is often used for a higher resolution display while requiring fewer subpixels than needed otherwise, sometimes resulting in a display less sharp and more grainy than a non-PenTile display with the same resolution. The organic materials used in AMOLED displays are very prone to degradation over a relatively short period of time, resulting in color shifts as one color fades faster than another, image persistence , or burn-in . Flagship smartphones sold in 2020 and 2021 used
729-624: Was a global mobile communication service provided by Samsung Electronics from September 2011 to March 2015. ChatON served more than 120 countries in 62 languages. ChatON was available on Android , iOS , BlackBerry , Windows Phone (Samsung Zone), Windows Mobile (Korea), and Bada smartphones. Additionally, a web client was offered for access to the service via web browsers. Users could invite and register buddies via Facebook and Twitter as well as share ChatON content on Facebook. Among ChatON's unique features were allowing users to create Animation messages, Broadcast to send personal notices in
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