Detailed Review

Design:

The Samsung Wave M is a strong fitted plastic body phone with curvy edges. It has 3.65 inch screen size with 320 x 480 pixels screen display. And for safety of this big screen it comes with corning gorilla glass. It measures 113.8 mm, 63.3 mm and 11.95 mm dimensions in height, width and depth. The weight is also lighter to just 119.3 gm. On its front, below the screen is a physical home key along with back and menu touch keys whereas, above the screen it has a front camera and proximity and ambient light sensors. On the bottom of the phone it has a USB/charging connector and a mouthpiece alongside it. On the top it has 3.5 mm earjack. The left side gives you volume controls whereas, the right side is for lock/power key, but there is no dedicated camera key on the phone. The back side of Wave M holds a 5 megapixels camera, LED flash and speaker grill on the back. The overall construction of the Wave M is good and it is comfortable too.

                                      

Interface/OS:

Samsung Wave M runs on Bada 2.0 operating system. It has an 832 MHz Scorpion processor supported by 512 MB RAM. When tested, the browsing on this interface with power packed processor and 512 RAM was a great experience with fun. The speed was good but when on 3G multitasking and swapping applications was slower. Its TouchWiz user interface is easy to personalize and access. The only disadvantage of Bada OS is that, it lacks with applications and updates.

Camera:

Samsung Wave M comes with tremendous 5 megapixels main camera with auto focus and LED flash. It has 2X digital zoom. The camera quality of Samsung Wave M is great. When tested, the outdoor images captured were rich and clearer in colours and the camera worked quickly and hardly took a second to be ready for next image. The Wave M camera supports JPEG, PNG, GIF, WBMP, BMP and AGIF image type. It allows multiple shot modes, such as single, smile shot, panorama, portrait, landscape, night, sports, party / indoor, beach / snow, sunset, dawn, fall colour, firework, text, candle light and against light.  The indoor shoots were even good. The Wave M camera has a 2592x1944 pixels image resolution. And, it also has a VGA front camera for video calling.

                                      

Audio/Video:

Despite its slim in look, the Samsung Wave M has not compromised with its voice/sound quality. The sound quality when tested was good with headphones and even when on speaker mode. The Touch Wiz music player is multi functional, the sound enhancing DNSe technology and 5.1 channel virtualization gives you better music output. Samsung Wave M supports MP3, OGG, AAC, AAC+, eAAC+, AMR-NB, AMR-WB, WMA, WAV, MID, AC3, IMY, FLAC and XMF audio formats. Like other galaxy phone, Wave M also has a Stereo FM radio with RDS. The video quality of this phone is wonderful. It features 1080 pixels full HD recording and playback at 30 frames per second. The video call quality from 2 megapixels front facing camera is good but the sound quality drops down if you hold it at a hand’s distance. It supports MPEG4, H.264, H.263, WMV, DivX andVC-1 video formats. When tested, the video captured from the camera was really superior quality and gave 720p HD resolution.

Memory:

The Samsung Wave M is rich in aspect of memory space too. In built it gives you 160 MB of memory with a micro SD card space of up to 32 GB more with support of 512 MB RAM. Surely, this can be the key for many people who love to keep their favorite playlist of audio/video with them.

Battery:

To ensure that you never miss your fun while experiencing Wave M, Samsung has used standard Li-Ion 1350 mAh battery. And when tested, battery performed admirable results on 2G and above average on 3G. The stand by time it delivered was up to 500 hours whereas, the talk time was up to 15 hours on 2G and up to 6 hours on 3G. So, we can say that Samsung Wave M ensures you good battery results.

Features:

The Samsung Wave M is pre loaded with powerful features in-built. It features Social Hub and Music Hub. The Social Hub includes all major social sites like, Facebook, twitter, You Tube, Linked In and many more. The Music Hub is available in only 32 countries in Europe and N.America which allows you to access the world of 13 million tracks of songs. Wave M is featured with Samsung Kies 2.0 and Kies air. And the much hyped ChatOn service enables single and multi-person conversations, multimedia file sharing and even more. And the much hyped ChatOn service comes inbuilt in this phone and enables single and multi-person conversations, multimedia file sharing and even more. For better and fast connectivity it features Bluetooth 3.0 + EDR, USB 2.0, Internet Dolfin Browser 3.0, Wi-Fi, Wi-Fi direct, aGPS and a micro USB port to connect or pair it with your laptop or PC. For fun and entertainment, Wave M is embedded with 5 games, 5 wallpaper and FM radio with RDS. As its extra added value, it offers HTML 5 application and Kies Air application that wirelessly connects the handset to PC through Wi-Fi.

Conclusion:

The Samsung Wave M is certainly a promising smartphone in this price range and segment. It do not offers long list of in-built features/applications that exist in all latest Android phones. The big 3.65 inch screen is satisfactory and offers good display. The weak processor and RAM sometimes give hassle while browsing. Overall, the Samsung Wave M is a good smartphone, but its 832 MHz weak processor is not that satisfactory comparing to other Samsung Android smartphones.

We give this tab 3.5 star rating.

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