For those of you tired of Samsung Wave’s dull camera UI comes the Wamo Camera Bada app, somewhat mimicking a traditional camera’s dials and providing HDR.

Usually camera apps added fun only to cameras, nothing for professionals to like, but something like kid’s joy to it, with funny shapes, moustaches you can add on, frames, and perhaps black and white effects, as well as sepia, and other forms of tinting the image or viewfinder. Pretty basic stuff.

BadaSports reminds me of Nokia Sports Tracker, it comes as an exercise Samsung Wave app with tons of details and sharing capabilities.

This is the kind of software that mobile developers should be coding, making use of GPS functionality, enabling a lot of fun in motion, and bundling social networking in the middle. There are already tons of apps like this for the iPhone, one even courtesy of Nike, who uses it to market its accessory, and in future, with new connectivity protocols such as ANT+ and NFC, there’ll be many …

Health Center is a Samsung Bada app that reports on one’s health, but unfortunately it seems to be overdone.

For most of us, it’s difficult to imagine why it would be handy to have a health record of our entire life – and that of our family – hanging in our pocket, especially if we don’t get sick often. Tracking all our prescriptions, visits to the doctor, menstrual cycles, etc., really seems like a lot of work, and that makes Health Center an app which I’d prefer to pass.

In what can only be described as the ultimate personal planner, Next is a Samsung Bada app that should be pre-loaded in every single business smartphone out there.

We must understand that business smartphones grew from personal planners/organisers, also known as PDAs. These have built on very old calendar formats which were ideal for resistive, low-resolution colour touchscreens. Today these calendars and organisers may seem to suffice, but neither has presents a nice intuitive experience that is offered on computer organisers or Google Calendar.

Feever, or Feeling Music Player, is a Samsung S8500 app similar to Sony Ericsson’s SensMe, which detects the mood and tempo of a music track.

At first I struggled to make the app work, but then I realised that I didn’t actually have any music tracks on my memory card. I loaded up and the app took very little time to recognise and classify the tempo and mood of each song – there’s a tutorial, it takes long to load, but it’s faily self-explanatory.

There’s a lack of decent in-phone podcast apps on the Samsung Wave, at least that is my opinion. It’s always good to have an independent app that focuses daily on adding good feeds, be them text, audio or even video.

It’s unlikely that any podcast app will cater for every single of users’ tastes, not everyone can be as good as Shoutcast radio (mostly music related), so these apps need an easy facility to allow the addition of XML feeds that are then parsed to discover any new podcast.

Whether you are environmentally-conscious (you should be) or not, CarCon is an excellent Samsung Wave app that allows us to keep track of our fuel expenditures.

Every time I go to the gas/fuel station to fill up my car’s tank, I try to remind myself of getting a piece of paper for next time and tracking how much I filled up, how much I’ve paid and how many kilometres/miles I drove for before I filled up. My Toyota Yaris spends very little, and I try to drive as much as possible …

For once, I am completely disappointed in this choice of a Samsung Wave app award. Rainy Day just doesn’t feel fulfilling.

Out of the many apps I’ve reviewed recently here at the Samsung S8500 Wave blog, all of them were either exceptional in their own way, or had that unique “wow” element that made you really proud of your phone, or…proud of what programmers are able to achieve. Rainy Day does none.

The summer holidays are practically finished here in South Africa, I wish I had taken a look at this Samsung Wave app sooner – Travel Memoir is an awesome concept.

In the age of social media we love to tag our friends, share photos, do everything we do on the web, and tell people about it – be it on Facebook, Twitter, etc.. It’s the in-thing. Sharing one’s holidays with friends, be it photos, videos, diaries, etc., shouldn’t be very hard, and that’s what Travel Memoir tries to help us do.

Some of you might remember Pandora’s box from the Tomb Raider series, or just know that it is a box which contains all the evils in the world. In this Samsung Wave app, it doesn’t exactly work like that.