Samsung Wave S8500 Unboxing Video

Design
The phone is made of mostly metal alloy and is measured at 10.9mm thick. In terms of form factor, its form factor is slate, which only features 3 hard buttons on the front: call, reject/ shutdown, and main menu button. The ergonomically designed body also makes it more comfortable to hold.[4]
Screen
The screen is a 3.3-inch (84 mm) capacitive touchscreen Super AMOLED (Super Active-matrix OLED display) with a anti-smudge oleophobic coating on top of the scratch-resistant tempered-glass touch panel which has been shown to be capable of resisting extreme friction (scratch-resistant).[4] The screen resolution is 800x480 WVGA which is said to have 283ppi.[5]
Processor
The phone features a 1 GHz SoC,[6] which internally contains an ARM Cortex A8 CPU core that is identical to the ARM Cortex CPU core used in Apples A4 package on package SoC.[7][8] 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) where on the other hand iPhone 3G S is capable of generating only 28 million triangles per second.
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 HD recording (1280x720)at 30fps with flash. Apart from this, it is also able to record slow motion video(320x240) at 120fps with flash.
Other features
Other feature includes A-GPS, 2 GB/8 GB of internal storage with a microSD slot for an additional 32GB moreover it has magnetometer, proximity sensor, accelerometer, 5.1-channel surround sound Mobile Theater, music recognition, fake call, smart search, 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 7.2 Mbit/s and HSUPA 2 Mbit/s.
This phone is avaliable 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.

User Interface
The phone is the first smartphone to feature Samsung bada operating system platform. The UI is indeed 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 (similar to HTC Sense Friend Stream) 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. Its able to edit images also.
Applications
In terms of Internet Browser, Samsung Wave is pre-installed with Dolphin Browser v2.0 (based on WebKit). This browser supports flash even though flash is disabled by default to improve page loadtime.
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.[9]
Media Support
MP3, AAC, AAC+, e-AAC+, WMA, AMR, WAV, MP4, MPEG4, H.263, H.264, WMV, DivX, XviD, MKV, FLAC