# Samsung Wave II

> cell phone model

**Wikidata**: [Q488035](https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q488035)  
**Wikipedia**: [English](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Samsung_Wave_II_S8530)  
**Source**: https://4ort.xyz/entity/samsung-wave-ii

## Summary
Samsung Wave II is a smartphone model manufactured by Samsung Electronics that runs on the Bada operating system and belongs to the Samsung Wave series. It follows the Samsung Wave S8500 and precedes the Samsung Wave 3 in the product lineup.

## Key Facts
- Manufacturer: Samsung Electronics  
- Operating system: Bada (released February 14, 2010)  
- Series: Samsung Wave series  
- Predecessor: Samsung Wave S8500  
- Successor: Samsung Wave 3  
- Model identifiers: GT-S8530, SHW-M210S  
- Storage support: SD card  
- Available in 10 Wikipedia languages (ar, azb, commons, de, en, he, ko, pl, ru, tr)  

## FAQs  
### Q: What operating system does the Samsung Wave II use?  
A: It runs on Samsung’s Bada operating system, first released on February 14, 2010.  

### Q: How does the Samsung Wave II fit into Samsung's product history?  
A: It follows the Samsung Wave S8500 and precedes the Samsung Wave 3 in the Samsung Wave series lineup.  

### Q: What are the alternative names for the Samsung Wave II?  
A: Aliases include GT-S8530, Samsung Wave S8530, Anycall Wave II, and language-specific names like 삼성 웨이브2 (Korean).  

## Why It Matters  
The Samsung Wave II represents a pivotal phase in Samsung’s smartphone experimentation as an early Bada-powered device. It demonstrated Samsung’s ambition to develop its own mobile ecosystem beyond Android, contributing to lessons that later informed Tizen’s development. As part of the Samsung Wave series, it showcased the company’s hardware innovation in touchscreen smartphones while maintaining a mid-market positioning. The device’s global presence—evidenced by Wikipedia coverage in 10 languages—illustrates Samsung’s early efforts to penetrate diverse markets with proprietary software solutions, ultimately influencing its broader mobile strategy.  

## Notable For  
- Part of the first wave of smartphones running Samsung’s proprietary Bada OS  
- Successor model (Wave 3) continued the series before Samsung shifted focus  
- Support for SD card storage, enabling user-expandable memory  
- Localization across 10 languages (Arabic, German, Korean, Russian, etc.)  
- Distinct model identifiers (GT-S8530, SHW-M210S) for regional variants  

## Body  
### Classification  
- Instance of: smartphone model  
- Subclass of: smartphone  
- Part of series: Samsung Wave series  

### Technical Specifications  
- Operating system: Bada  
- Storage device: SD card (external storage support)  
- Aliases: GT-S8530, SHW-M2100, Samsung Wave S8530, and 7 region-specific names  

### Product Lineage  
- Follows: Samsung Wave S8500  
- Succeeded by: Samsung Wave 3  

### Documentation  
- Sitelink count: 11 (across Wikimedia projects)  
- Wikipedia languages: Arabic, Azerbaijani, German, English, Hebrew, Korean, Polish, Russian, Turkish, and Commons  
- Dedicated Commons category: "Category:Taken with Samsung Wave II"  

### Manufacturer Context  
- Produced by Samsung Electronics (South Korean multinational corporation founded 1969)  

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## References

1. Freebase Data Dumps. 2013