14 DAY TRIAL // After broking the 1 million units sold barrier with the highly-acclaimed Galaxy S smartphone, Samsung has just announced that another one of its devices reached the same barrier in Europe, Samsung Wave.
Launched no more than four months ago, Samsung Wave managed to top the 1 million units sold barrier on the European market thanks to the relatively new Bada platform that the Korean handset manufacturer is trying to improve.
Since its launch, Samsung Wave featuring the Bada open platform was reported as one of the top three best sellers in countries such as France, Germany and Austria.
The recent announcement also proves that the Bada OS (“ocean” in Korean) is a success, even though it competes with Apple's iPhone OS and Google's Android platform.
Besides the Bada platform, Samsung Wave owes its success on the European market to its exquisite design, capabilities, as well as to the localized marketing efforts that encourage developers to create compatible applications for this new OS.
Some of the key features of the smartphone include: a 3.3-inch Super AMOLED touch screen (480 x 800 pixels resolution), HSDPA 7.2 Mbps, HSUPA 2 Mbps, Wi-Fi 802.11 b/g/n, Bluetooth 3.0 with A2DP support, 5.0-megapixel built-in camera (autofocus, LED flash, geo-tagging, face, smile and blink detection, image stabilization, touch focus), ARM Cortex A8 1GHz processor, GPS with A-GPS support, 3.5 mm audio jack, 1.5 GB system storage, 390 MB user available storage, and microSD card slot for memory expansion (up to 32GB).
The Korean handset maker plans to launch its next two Bada phones that were showcased at this year's Communic Asia 2010 convention in Singapore, Samsung Wave 2 and Wave 2 Pro, by the end of the year.
Also, the company stated that it intends to bring the Samsung Wave on the South Korean market, but a release date hasn't been disclose yet.