Mobile Phone Reviews

The Samsung S8500 Wave is a phone that is a perfect shape and size for operating and for carrying around, in a pocket or in a bag.  It’s 11.8 cm by 5.6 cm by 1.09 cm.  It is extremely classy looking, the brushed effect casing adding a sophisticated touch.

It is a touch screen phone displaying almost 16 million colours on a high resolution AMOLED screen, a screen that measures 3.3 inches across.  The Wave has a built-in automatic rotation function enabling you to turn the handset switching from portrait to landscape.

You can text using the touch screen or by using the keyboard – the keyboard usually being the faster method.

The camera is five megapixels and can take videos as well as still life images.  It has enhancements such as smile detection, automatic focus and flash.  AGPS navigation allows you to geo-tag your pictures, saving the location of where your photo was snapped.

There is a music system that supports MP3 and other popular music file formats and an FM radio that shows the track and artist being played.  It also comes with Java and that means you can download games onto your handset.

The phone has Wi-Fi allowing you access to the web, and data transfer is high speed as it has 3G video-calling support.  The Wave comes with either two or eight gigabytes of internal memory that can be increased with an external memory card.