Samsung Wave Joins the Smartphone Lineup

The Wave is the first smartphone based on Samsung's new, open smartphone platform, bada. Samsung Apps will be available in 80 countries when the Wave launches. Samsung Electronics announced the commercial availability of the Samsung Wave (Model: S8500) in European countries, including Germany, France and the UK.

"The Samsung Wave represents our strategy to deliver rich, exciting smartphone experiences to everyone," said JK Shin, President and head of the Mobile Communications Business at Samsung Electronics. "This launch will make our platform vision a reality and consumers, developers and operators will experience the freedom of choice that bada enables."

The Samsung Wave will expand its availability from European countries to Southeast Asia, China, the Middle East and Africa, and Latin America.