The Wave is Samsung's high end smartphone model that is launching the Bada OS platform, the Korean chaebol's own proprietary mobile setting, to the UK market.

The phone comes along with some rather attractive features that place it right on the plane of the HTC Desire, which is perhaps the trendiest smartphone on the market. Like the latter, the Wave comes with a 1 GHz Qualcomm processor, a 5-megapixel camera and a WVGA screen resolution.

It does though have a smaller screen, 3.3-inch vs. 3.7-inch, although one that uses Super Amoled technology rather than the HTC Desire's meager mediocre Amoled-only.

Wave has a somewhat more dominant battery as contrasted with the HTC Desire, 1.5mAh vs. 1.4mAh and the Samsung Wave comes with 2GB internal memory while the HTC Desire doesn't have any internal memory.

The Wave lastly does better than HTC's smartphone, as much as hardware is concerned, by presenting HD recording and playback, 5.1 Surround audio, Wi-Fi 802.11n and support for DiVX format all in a somewhat smaller structure factor.

Lambdatek is vending the Samsung Wave S8500 for just £301 whilst Vodafone is going to vend the machine with 300 minutes, unlimited texts and 500MB data for £25 for each month.