Tuesday, February 15, 2011

Samsung Wave 578 revealed as the first bada phone with NFC chip for mobile payments

Samsung released their new middle range phone Samsung Wave 578 in the MWC Samsung Pre-event along with Samsung Galaxy S2 and Samsung Galaxy Tab2 tablet. The most striking features of the Wave 578 is the Samsung’s own operating system OS Bada and a built in NFC chip like the one present in Nexus S. Unlike the other mobile phones in the Wave series, Samsung Wave 578 has a metallic back, round glass cover over the lens opening of camera. Detailed specifications are given below. Samsung Wave 578 The display of Samsung Wave 578 is a 3.2 inches TFT capacitive touch screen with a display resolution of 240 x 400 pixels. It has features of the usual touch screen phones like multi touch input methods, proximity sensor, accelero meter sensor etc. There is a 3.15 mega pixels camera with VGA image resolution of 640 x 480 pixels. This can ensure some real good quality pictures. The camera can record video clippings with QVGA resolution of 320x 240 pixels at 20 fps. The phone will also have an additional camera of 0.3 mega pixel with VGA resolution. This is specially meant for video calling services in 3G networks. The multimedia features of the phone are rather good with audio and video players. The music player can play files in formats like MP3, AAC etc. It has the ability of music recognition also. The video player supports Videos in MPEG4 format. An FM radio is also present in the phone. The phone supports both GSM and UMTS network technologies. The GSM operating frequencies are 800/900/1800/1900 MHz. The operating frequencies of UMTS are 900/2100 MHz. The HSDPA 3G connectivity has a speed of 3.2 Mbps. Samsung Wave 578 The candy bar phone -Samsung Wave 578 - is a complete smart phone with facilities for web browsing, Email, personal Information management, LAN connectivity etc. The data type used in the phone is EDGE. Other connectivity settings include Blue tooth 3.0, Wi-Fi and GPS. The additional special features include Dolphin 2.0 browser, Samsung Hub, TouchWiz 3.0 user interface etc. The dimensions of the phone are 107.9 x 54.9 x 12.5 mm and it weighs about 124 gms. The phone is powered by 1200 Mah battery which will provide a talk time of 12.5 hours in 2G and 6.83 hours in 3G. The maximum stand by time will be up to 700 hours in 2G and 500 hours in 3G.

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