Samsung has recently released the Wave 2, the less costly offspring of Samsung's popular Wave phone.
Though the Wave garnered a large following, its higher cost kept many buyers away.
With the Wave 2, Samsung is hoping to capture a larger slice of the smartphone market, particularly those who may not have as much money to spend on a new phone.
The Wave 2 is priced to attract students and young adults, who represent the majority of social networkers, but typically do not have a great deal of income to spend.
To keep the price down, Samsung did make some changes to the Wave 2, but it still has many of the original Wave's great features.
Among the most popular of the Samsung features that have been included with the Wave 2 is the soft key QWERTY keypad and predictive text input.
This can be a real time-saver for anyone who sends lots of text messages or updates, not to mention the fact that you will not have to keep pecking at the keypad.
There is also an accelerometer, so your Wave 2 includes the auto-rotate function, allowing you to move quickly between landscape or portrait modes when viewing pictures or documents.
Just turn the phone on its side and it adapts the image to fit the screen.
Also included is the TouchWiz 3.
0 UI for simple, easy to understand navigation.
Even those unfamiliar with smartphone technology will be able to quickly find their way around this system.
With 80 MB of built-in storage and the capacity to support up to 16 GB of additional memory through a microSD slot, the Samsung Wave 2 is a hand-held media studio to go.
Store music, videos, and images at your finger tips, or change out memory cards for endless media access.
The microSD memory cards also allow you to easily transport your favorite media from phone to phone, or phone to computer, giving you easier access when and where you need it.
And its 3-megapixel camera not only allows you to record SD video, but play back mp4 video and touch up images you take with an image editor as well.
Like most major smartphone manufacturers, Samsung offers its own social networking aggregator, similar to HTC's Friend Stream, Sony Ericsson's Timescape of Motorola's Motoblur.
Samsung's Social Hub maintains all your contact details, email accounts and social networking services in one location for easy access.
With just your Wave 2 in hand, you will be able to share a favorite joke with all your friends, manage your account information or see what everyone else is talking about.
Social Hub means you can now view and respond to messages, check your social networks and send emails from multiple service providers without having to access each individual network.
The Wave 2's display is a respectable 3.
2" screen for video and picture viewing; the 240x400 TFT LCD is capable of showing up to 256,000 colors.
Most users will appreciate the built-in FM stereo to catch up on the latest music.
However, if nothing is on the radio, the integrated music player can store and playback a variety of audio formats, including wav, MP3, and eAAC+.
Though the Wave garnered a large following, its higher cost kept many buyers away.
With the Wave 2, Samsung is hoping to capture a larger slice of the smartphone market, particularly those who may not have as much money to spend on a new phone.
The Wave 2 is priced to attract students and young adults, who represent the majority of social networkers, but typically do not have a great deal of income to spend.
To keep the price down, Samsung did make some changes to the Wave 2, but it still has many of the original Wave's great features.
Among the most popular of the Samsung features that have been included with the Wave 2 is the soft key QWERTY keypad and predictive text input.
This can be a real time-saver for anyone who sends lots of text messages or updates, not to mention the fact that you will not have to keep pecking at the keypad.
There is also an accelerometer, so your Wave 2 includes the auto-rotate function, allowing you to move quickly between landscape or portrait modes when viewing pictures or documents.
Just turn the phone on its side and it adapts the image to fit the screen.
Also included is the TouchWiz 3.
0 UI for simple, easy to understand navigation.
Even those unfamiliar with smartphone technology will be able to quickly find their way around this system.
With 80 MB of built-in storage and the capacity to support up to 16 GB of additional memory through a microSD slot, the Samsung Wave 2 is a hand-held media studio to go.
Store music, videos, and images at your finger tips, or change out memory cards for endless media access.
The microSD memory cards also allow you to easily transport your favorite media from phone to phone, or phone to computer, giving you easier access when and where you need it.
And its 3-megapixel camera not only allows you to record SD video, but play back mp4 video and touch up images you take with an image editor as well.
Like most major smartphone manufacturers, Samsung offers its own social networking aggregator, similar to HTC's Friend Stream, Sony Ericsson's Timescape of Motorola's Motoblur.
Samsung's Social Hub maintains all your contact details, email accounts and social networking services in one location for easy access.
With just your Wave 2 in hand, you will be able to share a favorite joke with all your friends, manage your account information or see what everyone else is talking about.
Social Hub means you can now view and respond to messages, check your social networks and send emails from multiple service providers without having to access each individual network.
The Wave 2's display is a respectable 3.
2" screen for video and picture viewing; the 240x400 TFT LCD is capable of showing up to 256,000 colors.
Most users will appreciate the built-in FM stereo to catch up on the latest music.
However, if nothing is on the radio, the integrated music player can store and playback a variety of audio formats, including wav, MP3, and eAAC+.
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