Doté d'un magasin d'applications encore peu étoffé et sans doute moins performant en messagerie qu'un smartphone sous Android ou un iPhone, le Wave est, en revanche, un dangereux concurrent sur tous les autres plans. D'un design irréprochable, ce mobile intègre un écran hors du commun, des fonctions multimédias extrêmement séduisantes et une ergonomie simple et intuitive s'appuyant sur du multipoint. Cerise sur le gâteau, plusieurs opérateurs le proposent déjà avec une substantielle subvention. On le trouve, par exemple, chez SFR à partir de 29 euros !
The Samsung Wave morphs a mid-range feature phone into fully fledged smartphone thanks to the new open-source Bada OS. The Wave possesses excellent build quality, an outstanding display, great multimedia capabilities and impressive performance 'Å“ all wrapped up in a slick, easy to use interface that will only get better.
It is worth remembering that this is a first generation phone on this platform and once it gets the sort of intensive testing that real customers put on it, Samsung will probably better identify and iron out some of the quirks we found. We said at the beginning of this review that it was on the long side - even so, there are some elements we haven't mentioned, like the nice swipe lock screen which gives you a jigsaw-style alert for missed calls and messages or the drop-down Android-esque notification bar with large Wi-Fi, Bluetooth and silence buttons.
In the Wave, Samsung has given Bada an impressive debut. It's a very well built, elegant handset, that's packed with all the latest features. We do have a few niggles with the software and have concerns about the support it will get from app developers, but these concerns are offset by a cracking price.
(Les notes de la presse sont données à titre indicatif et représentent une interprétation du test par Numerama)
