After a rather disappointing first smartphone (Samsung Omnia, Windows 6.1; good hardware, bad OS) I have the Samsung Wave 3 indulged at Christmas as a company phone. I am thrilled - even compared to the iPhone 3, which I had already borrowed and sample used for several days by a colleague.
The Setup was quick and easy. You had to enter an email address for the App Store. That was it but also already. No personal registration on a site and forced or perhaps "strongly preferred" Non-mobile integration with iTunes or Google mail accounts.
The processing as well as the responsiveness and accuracy to inputs on the display are very good. The design is so good that one can put it without embarrassed at the conference table. The presentation is great in terms of resolution, color, contrast - even after scaling down the brightness. The size is its for my taste "the sensible upper" end, which still allowed to call mobile phone. The operation has also succeeded, but naturally requires technology affinity and -Knowledge when you get in deeper into the Settings. The speech recognition I have tried briefly and it seemed "quite good"; you can always talk instead of typing it and thus bring words (for example to find cities or persons) or all notes into the phone. The "text recognition Wipe" is in my opinion a matter of taste. One can wipe here about the letter of indent levels word and it is then detected. This is ultimately faster than normal tap - if the word is known. (Because me but incorrect recognitions more irritating than the slightly longer and controlled tap, this feature and also generally text recognition is personally not for me.)
For me it was also important that can be synchronized with our corporate Exchange server the device. That was no problem using a standard e-mail account, and after 2 minutes setup I had all the emails, contacts and appointments in sync on the Wave 3. This required also no additional app, as I had thought in advance.
The display of e-mails, contacts and appointments is nice to look at and very user-friendly. All virtual keys on the screen are big enough for fingers to medium size. Thrilled, I was also of the opportunity to draw speed dial icons on the surface. So I now have for example a photo of the woman on the phone "Desktop" and could also call this relaxed with 2 predictors, if I (hypothetically speaking, of course) would have to do this while driving.
Camera and Video in particular fulfill their service and are especially easy and quickly available to capture spontaneous moments. They therefore meet at least my requirements; critical consideration of the image quality I leave on the sidelines, because I would resort to "good" photos anyway to my SLR. For video recordings in 1280px - especially if you still want to save his mp3 on the Wave - however, the memory bit small, so you should upgrade them.
Respect. the Apps, the selection certainly much smaller than on Android and iOS, but I was still pleasantly surprised that there are already enough to download and messing around. Much is "free", many will cost just 1-3 euros. Here I hope also to successively more apps if bada established as a small but robust niche. The for me both professionally and personally really central and useful tools such as notes, calculator, calendar, MP3 player etc. are indeed already preinstalled. Negative I noticed the AppStore that it hooked more frequently when downloading apps. Mostly I was an "error" message, the 2nd or 3rd attempt it worked. (. Both on G3 and Wi-Fi) from apps via credit card I have already practiced; That was easy and went right over the phone. If developers read: When entering from the expiry date of the credit card, the plausibility check is not correct. You can only enter the first 2 digits for the month, although the format is MMYYYY. You have to press on further, get an error message, and can only then enter the year.
My conclusion: For people who (for whatever reason) do not want any Android or iPhone, the Wave 3 with bada is the ideal niche. The result is a high quality modern smartphone, that, alongside with many features and good usability even tactile and visual pleasure. On a personal note: The not few critical reviews that I saw on Amazon and had unsettled me, frankly, seemed to me more often from Wave 2-owners come to that were perhaps a little disappointed in direct comparison with its predecessor. I as a business / retail client with Windows 6.1 and iPhone experience can in any case only recommend this phone.
