Three Samsung Wave phones with Bada OS unveiled

Samsung has announced three more handsets in its Wave family -Wave 525 (GT-S5250), Wave 533 (GT-S5330) and Wave 575 (GT-S5750). All three handsets will run Samsung Bada operating system and on top of it will rest TouchWiz 3.0 interface. Just two days ago, Samsung had unveiled new Wave II S8530 that too runs Bada OS and sports 3.7-inch super-clear LCD screen.

Samsung Wave S5250 already available in Russia while Samsung Wave533 be introduced lataer this month over there. Both phones would gradually hit CIS, Europe, Latin America, Asia, Middle East, Africa and other countries. Sweden will get Samsung Wave S5750 in mid-November and then it would be released in Europe, Southeast Asia and China. Prices of neither of the handsets were announced.

New entrants to Wave and Bada family - Samsung Wave 525 (GT-S5250), Samsung Wave 533 (GT-S5330) and Samsung Wave 575 (GT-S5750) handsets have similar specifications. Out of these three phones, Wave S5330 will be a slide-out QWERTY with a full touchscreen. While Wave S5250 and S5750 smartphones will come in candy bar form factor sporting full touchscreen.

Samsung Wave S5250 Specifications:


- 2G Network:GSM 850 / 900 / 1800 / 1900
- GPRS Class 10 (4+1/3+2 slots), 32 - 48 kbps
- EDGE Class 10, 236.8 kbps
- 3.2-inch TFT capacitive touchscreen display 256K colors (240 x 400) 
- Accelerometer sensor for auto-rotate
- TouchWiz UI 3.0
- Multi-touch zoom
- 3.5 mm audio jack
- 100 MB Onboard Phone Memory 
- Up to 16GB microSD expandable 
- Wi-Fi 802.11 b/g/n
- Bluetooth v3.0 with A2DP
- 3.15 MP camera (2048x1536) with Geo-tagging & Video recording
- Bada OS
- Dolphine Browser WAP 2.0/xHTML, HTML
- Stereo FM radio with RDS
- GPS with A-GPS support
- Java MIDP 2.0
- SNS integration with live updates
- MP3/WAV/eAAC+ player
- MP4/H.263/H.264 player
- Music recognition
- MicroUSB v2.0
- Standard battery Li-Ion 1200 mAh
- Dimensions: 109.5 x 55 x 11.9 mm
- Weight 100 g

Samsung Wave S5330 Specifications:


- 2G Network:GSM 850 / 900 / 1800 / 1900
- GPRS Class 10 (4+1/3+2 slots), 32 - 48 kbps
- EDGE Class 10, 236.8 kbps
- 3.2-inch TFT capacitive touchscreen display 256K colors (240 x 400)
- Slideout QWERTY keyboard
- Accelerometer sensor for auto-rotate
- TouchWiz UI 3.0
- Multi-touch zoom
- 3.5 mm audio jack
- 100 MB Onboard Phone Memory 
- Up to 16GB microSD expandable 
- Wi-Fi 802.11 b/g/n
- Bluetooth v3.0 with A2DP
- 3.15 MP camera (2048x1536) with Geo-tagging & Video recording
- Bada OS
- Dolphine Browser WAP 2.0/xHTML, HTML
- Stereo FM radio with RDS
- GPS with A-GPS support
- Java MIDP 2.0
- SNS integration with live updates
- MP3/WAV/eAAC+ player
- MP4/H.263/H.264 player
- Music recognition
- microUSB v2.0
- Standard battery Li-Ion 1200 mAh
- Dimensions: 109.5 x 55 x 15.2 mm
- Weight 118 g

Samsung Wave S5750 Specifications:


- 2G GSM 850 / 900 / 1800 / 1900
- 3G HSDPA 900 / 2100
- GPRS Class 10 (4+1/3+2 slots), 32 - 48 kbps
- EDGE Class 10, 236.8 kbps
- HSDPA 3.6 Mbps
- 3.2-inch TFT capacitive touchscreen display 256K colors (240 x 400) 
- Accelerometer sensor for auto-rotate
- TouchWiz UI 3.0
- Multi-touch zoom
- 3.5 mm audio jack
- 100 MB Onboard Phone Memory 
- Up to 16GB microSD expandable 
- Wi-Fi 802.11 b/g/n
- Bluetooth v3.0 with A2DP
- 3.15 MP camera (2048x1536) with Geo-tagging & Video recording
- Bada OS
- Dolphine Browser WAP 2.0/xHTML, HTML
- Stereo FM radio with RDS
- GPS with A-GPS support
- Java MIDP 2.0
- SNS integration with live updates
- MP3/WAV/eAAC+ player
- MP4/H.263/H.264 player
- Music recognition
- microUSB v2.0
- Standard battery Li-Ion 1200 mAh
- Dimensions: 109.5 x 55 x 11.9 mm
- Weight 100 g

To say it simply, Wave S5250 is the 2.5G version of Wave S5750 which supports 3G Network with HSDPA. While Wave S5330 is a slide-out QWERTY keyboard bearing 3G version of Wave S5250. The Wave S5750 will be flaunting SNS integration with live updates and music recognition. These two features along with dimensions as well as form factor differentiate Wave S5750 from Wave S5330. 

These three models might be available in India before this year's end. Stay tuned to this space for price and availability dates. 

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