Samsung Wave: Tricks to accelerate your web browsing

June 7, 2010 6:00 am

Categories: Guides Extra Tags: bada, PP, Samsung, wave

The best thing about smartphones like the Samsung Wave is that you’re always connected to the world around you, via the web. The Bada OS does more with this connectivity power than just slapping a browser icon in the phone’s menu. Read on to find out more about the Wave’s net powers.

Using your connections
The Samsung Wave is equipped with a powerful arsenal of connectivity options, so before we delve into advanced tips and tricks, you need to make sure you’re making use of the Wave’s connections.

Check for the 3G and Wi-Fi icons in the top toolbar, and if they’re not there, set them up within the main Settings menu. The Wave’s 3G connection can handle up to 7.2Mbps thanks to ultra-quick HSDPA tech, and it supports the new, well new-ish, Wi-Fi “n” standard, which lets you get up to 100m from your home router router without losing signal.

Bringing the web to you
Once you’re fully connected, you don’t have to skip straight to the internet browser to pull data from online. The Samsung Wave lets you equip your home screens with many of the updates you’ll want to check out every day, so that you only have to venture into the full browser when you want to proper surfing session. It does this with widgets.

Our favourite is Feeds & Update. This grabs all the social network updates from your Myspace, Twitter and Facebook accounts and organises them into one stream so that you can flick through them happily with a finger. You can set these social networks to update automatically, from every half an hour to just once a day, or you can to the job yourself with a press of a button on the widget.

Everyone and their grandma is on a social network these days, but it’s not all that the net’s about. If you like more meat on your web content, and given you’re here at Electricpig you must do, you can stick some news feed widgets on a home screen. The Wave includes widgets for BBC News, the Financial Times and the Register. None of them are a patch on Electricpig of course, but you’ll have to head to your browser for a peek at our wares…

Real smartphone, real browser
The Samsung Wave may not dominate your pocket like the Samsung Galaxy S does, but its smartphone features have as much weight as the biggest, most bad-ass smartphone available. The browser is fully-featured, with multitouch zoom, full bookmarking and tabbed browsing.

To access the menu with these advanced mobile browsing features, you just need to tap the touchscreen and then hit the arrow icon, bringing up this menu. The bookmarks menu isn’t a simple list of your favourites either – you can also check out which are your most-viewed pages.

The Wave’s browser is intelligent, and it’s ready to remember all your passwords so you don’t have to spend any time forever typing them in. You can switch on an autosave password option within the browser’s preferences menu, but watch out who you hand your phone over to if you enable it.

Less is more. More speed
Now that we’ve covered how to ace a Samsung Wave web browsing exam, how about a spot of troubleshooting? When your 3G connection’s maxed out or you’re connected to your home Wi-Fi network, browsing’s going to be as slick as a brylcreme’d quiff, but what do you do when you have no Wi-Fi and your 3G connection is dying before your eyes? The Samsung Wave’s on hand to help.

Within the browser’s Preferences menu you can cut down you browsing experience to suit your connection. Yes, an internet without pics is a sad thing, but going text-only is better than waiting five minutes for a page to load, if your connection’s having one of those days. Aside from turning off images, you can also turn off sound, Javascript and Flash, which will dramatically cut down the amount of data your mobile has to pull down from the web.

Check out the Samsung Wave in action…

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