While I know that it was useful during manhunts and that Lifehacker loves it, I still don’t really understand Google Wave. But no more worrying about this particular lack of knowledge though, because Google appears to be abandoning the project:
As if there wasn’t enough mobile phone excitement today, Samsung has launched the Wave, their first handset running their home-grown Bada OS, through Optus, Voda and Virgin as well.
There’s a lot of under-the-hood changes to Wave to make it faster, more stable and more extendable with new APIs, among other improvements, but the big news for most people is that now anybody can use it with their standard Google (or Google Apps) account – it’s just going to live in Google Labs for the time being. [Wave]
All this time I thought people weren’t using Google Wave because it was generally unwieldy. But this College Humor video helped me understand: people don’t use Google Wave because it’s specifically unwieldy, for cyber sex.
It was hardly a well-kept secret by any stretch of the imagination, but at MWC Samsung’s Wave S8500 raised its head. It’s running the new Bada OS, and has one of those 3.3-inch SUPER AMOLED screens we saw before.
Yesterday we saw the Samsung Wave from afar, today we get our first close look at Samsung’s first Bada-powered handset. The Wave is indeed the S8500, the first handset to receive Bluetooth SIG certification for the new Bluetooth 3.0 standard.
So I’ve been playing around with Google Wave for a while, and despite being on a few waves, have yet to find a really practical use for it. Until now – I want to use Wave as a way of chatting with you guys in real time – in particular as a way of getting feedback on the site.
Let’s Make Giz AU A Better Place For Everybody
Ah, 2010. It seems like only yesterday you were little more than a section in the calendar that I could only find if I continually scrolled through month after month during those depressing down times in gadget land. But you’re here now, so it’s time to try and take the time to see how we can make Gizmodo a better place for everyone in the community.