The screen was smaller, 3.3 inches, than that of the Galaxy S (4.0'), though it had the same resolution - 480 x 800 px. The phone had the same 5 MP camera with autofocus and 720p video recording too, same 1,500 mAh battery even. It ran on the same Hummingbird chipset (1.0 GHz Cortex-A8 CPU), an early Samsung chip predating the Exynos line. Other than the OS, it was like a smaller Galaxy S. It even had 3.5 mm jacks and camera buttonsīack to the S8500 Wave.The family tree of Linux-based mobile operating systems is convoluted to say the least. The company has been the main user of Tizen ever since.

Samsung had its own Linux-based OS at the time, Bada, which was eventually merged into Tizen in 2013. So, Intel and others – Samsung among them – started the Tizen project as a sequel to MeeGo. Then the two tech giants decided to combine their efforts into MeeGo (which is part of what made the Nokia N9 awesome).īut then Nokia abandoned Intel to pursue other love interests (you know the one). Intel had a similar system dubbed Moblin. Maemo was a Linux-based operating system for mobile devices (“internet tablets” and smartphones) developed by Nokia. Meet the Samsung S8500 Wave - the first phone with a Super AMOLED display It was a precursor to Tizen, the OS that runs on Samsung smart TVs today and used to be a major part of the company’s smartwatches too (though that seems to have come to an end with the Galaxy Watch4 series, which switched to Google’s Wear OS).

Or maybe you answered correctly because you still remember the Wave phones and the OS they ran – Bada (Korean for “ocean”). Do you know which was the first phone with a Super AMOLED display? Some of you may have answered “the original Galaxy S”, but that is not the case – if you read our story of OLED displays on mobile phones you will know that it was the Samsung S8500 Wave, which beat the Galaxy S to market by two months.īack then we called this a 'modest retail package' - if only we knew what was coming

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