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

Sony-Ericsson W910i Walkman - High definition unboxing

Bearing the Walkman brand, this phone has to deliver when it comes to music. A Walkman button is found along its top edge to quickly access the tracks, though we find it too small for our liking. It's even harder to reach it with the slider up.

A motion sensor has been built into the W910i as well. This not only allows the user to control playback by shaking the handset, but also changes the orientation of the screen automatically in the media browser. If you ask us, the shake-to-change-tracks proposition is somewhat gimmicky and we don't see ourselves using it often after the initial novelty. We'd rather pipe music wirelessly to our HBH-DS980 Bluetooth stereo earphones and switch tracks on the accessory.

Although most of the recent Sony Ericsson models sport the new media-browsing interface, the W910i has a unique SensMe feature. It sorts music according to its tempo (fast and slow) and the mood (happy and sad) it evokes in an X/Y-axis graphical interface. So at a glance, one can see songs which are fast and happy, sad and slow, or happy and slow. We haven't come across any tracks which are fast and sad, so the top left quadrant is usually empty. Using the directional control, we could navigate the graph, which displays the title of the songs selected in a ticker tape on the screen.

With only 40MB of memory, music lovers will need an expansion card for their tunes. The format used in this handset is the Memory Stick Micro M2, Sony's flash media which is almost similar in size to the microSD format. They are usually priced at a slight premium compared to microSDs, though, so increasing the memory may require another chunk of change. What disappointed us was that Sony Ericsson didn't include a 3.5mm audio jack on the W910i, which would have been appropriate for a music phone.

Installed on our W910i test unit are three gaming titles. The Lumines Block Challenge, which is a modified version of the hit title Lumines on the Sony PSP, is a block puzzle game with a musical twist to it. However, the Marble Madness 3D game takes the cake for making use of the onboard motion sensor. The mission is to navigate the marble to the end of the maze by tilting the phone to control the orb. Although there's always the traditional keypad to fall back on, the fun is in playing the game using the motion sensor controls. Racing fans will also enjoy playing the V-Rally 3D game in landscape mode.

Connectivity-wise, the W910i is quite capable. The quadband handset supports HSDPA for high-speed downloads over the cellular network, a good feature to have if listening to or buying tunes over-the-air appeals to you. A front-facing camera above the phone's 2.4-inch LCD is for video calls.

Even though it's positioned as a music phone, the W910i's sub-par camera is admittedly disappointing. There's no autofocus (which accounted for a number of blurry pictures), no LED flash light for shooting in darker environments and no way to do self-protraits. Sometimes we wonder if it's a good idea to have such clear lines between a camera-phone and a music-phone. With Sony Ericsson, the Walkman series is usually fitted with a less-than-satisfactory camera module compared with its Cyber-shot brethren. Notably, users these days don't just look for a handset with a feature that takes priority over other functions. But that's just our take.

(CNET Asia)

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