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SAMSUNG WAVE 578 SMART PHONE

Samsung’s Wave 578 is a 3G bada-powered touch screen handset offering great smartphone functionality. Whether you’re a novice or a pro, the exciting Samsung platform offers wide access to social media and apps that is simple to master. The large vivid display, excellent connectivity and easy access to social networks including video calls are encased in a sleek metallic design that is a pleasure to use. And with the new NFC connectivity, which allows for mobile payments and other electronic payments, life couldn’t be any more streamlined.

New NFC Lifestyle, Rapid Connectivity

NFC (Near Field Communication) provides all the convenience of mobile payments including quick pay transportation, debit/credit charges and other electronic transactions. Experience the fastest Wi-Fi for high-speed video downloads, more responsive games and seamless data transfers, not to mention enjoying all the general and specialty applications available at Samsung Apps. Embedded Bluetooth 3.0 capability gives you the full wireless freedom so you feel connected everywhere.

Smart & Stylish

The clean, contoured lines of its stylish, slim design with highly comfortable grip enhances usage while metallic cover lends added polish. In addition to its looks, full-feature smarts including T9 Trace technology enhances user experience. Glide your fingers over the large multi-touchscreen – texting has never been faster or easier by “trace or tap” quick typing, automatic error correction and predicting common words and punctuation.

Social Hub, Smarter Functionality

Seamlessly integrates your email, IM, SNS accounts synced to phonebook and calendar to streamline all your online activities into one display so you only need to check only once for new messages, posts and status updates. Enhanced communication through RCS (Rich Communication Suite) greatly improves your ability to communicate efficiently.

Samsung Apps to Suit Your Lifestyle

Choose from an abundant selection of high quality, next-generation apps developed and optimised for use on your Samsung handset. Specify your entertainment, game, social networking tastes. Express and enhance your lifestyle choices through productivity and utility apps. Select your favourite news, reference, navigation apps. Free apps galore along with 2000 premium quality applications optimised for bada platform backed by Samsung’s renowned support services.

General    
2G Network     GSM 850 / 900 / 1800 / 1900
3G Network     HSDPA 900 / 2100

Body    
Dimensions     107.9 x 54.9 x 12.5 mm
Weight     99.8 g

Display    
Type     TFT capacitive touchscreen, 256K colors
Size     240 x 400 pixels, 3.2 inches (~146 ppi pixel density)
- TouchWiz UI 3.0

Sound    
Alert types     Vibration, MP3 ringtones
Loudspeaker     Yes
3.5mm jack     Yes

Memory    
Card slot     microSD, up to 16GB, buy memory
Internal     100 MB

Data    
GPRS     Yes
EDGE     Yes
Speed     HSDPA 3.6 Mbps
WLAN     Wi-Fi 802.11 b/g/n, Wi-Fi hotspot
Bluetooth     Yes, v3.0 with A2DP
NFC     Optional
USB     Yes, microUSB v2.0

Camera    
Primary     3.15 MP, 2048x1536 pixels
Features     Geo-tagging
Video     Yes, QVGA@20fps
Secondary     Yes, VGA

Features    
OS     bada OS, v1.1
Sensors     Accelerometer, proximity
Messaging     SMS, MMS, Email, Push Email, IM, RSS
Browser     WAP 2.0/xHTML, HTML
Radio     Stereo FM radio with RDS
GPS     Yes, with A-GPS support
Java     Yes, MIDP 2.0
Colors     Black
- SNS integration with live updates
- MP3/WAV/eAAC+ player
- MP4/H.263/H.264 player
- Music recognition
- Organizer
- Document viewer
- Image editor
- Voice memo
- Predictive text input (T9 Trace)

Battery          
Standard battery, Li-Ion 1200 mAh
Stand-by     Up to 700 h (2G) / Up to 500 h (3G)
Talk time     Up to 12 h 30 min (2G) / Up to 7 h (3G)