Samsung Wave and Galaxy S Hands-on

Samsung is leaving no stones unturned to promote two of its hottest devices, Wave that has Samsung’s proprietary bada OS and Galaxy S that runs on Android OS. Samsung recently held an event in Mumbai where they invited us to try out the devices and also win. Well, we couldn’t manage to do the latter 😐 but we did spend a good amount of time with both the devices.

Wave is Samsung’s first bada device and is packed with features, enough to give many smartphones a run for their money. The device is made from a single aluminum enclosure (sans the battery cover) and it feels solid as well as light (just 118g). The phone is snappy due to its 1GHz CPU and features a 3.3-inch Super AMOLED and though we could not try out the display’s performance under sunlight, the screen looked great.

Another thing we tried out was Social Hub. Thanks to Samsung’s own OS, they were able to tightly integrate social networking services where all your facebook, twitter, myspace contacts merge with the contacts found on your phone. You can manually link contacts as well.

Overall, we feel Wave with bada has great potential provided Samsung continues to evolve bada and support them aggressively.

We also tried out Samsung’s latest Android device, Galaxy S. The first thing you’ll notice is its display which is similar to Wave’s but adds another 0.7-inches, taking it to 4-inches. Operating the phone and playing games is such a breeze and having Android underneath assures you’ll not run out of great of apps.

However, one issue that we did notice is Samsung’s choice for using plastic as the battery cover. Though it seems to be high quality plastic, something with metal would have gone well its high-end status.

We’ll review both the handsets in detail in coming weeks but for now, check out our hands-on pictures in the gallery below.