Samsung has announced that the Samsung Wave has surpassed one million sales.

The news goes some way in fulfilling Samsung’s intentions that the Wave should be a popular handset that opens up the smartphone market to the masses. The manufacturer will be doubly pleased since the Wave is the first phone to run on the home-brewed Bada platform.

With its superb Super AMOLED screen and responsive capacitive touchscreen, the Wave certainly offers customers a great deal of functionality for a low price and retailers have been able to offer extremely cheap Samsung Wave deals. However, there have been some reservations over the platform’s lack of apps.

These encouraging sales reports should do much to encourage developers to starting porting their existing titles to Samsung’s new O/S, but only future growth will convince devs to start creating entirely new apps to this largely uncharted operating system.

Both Vodafone and Orange has started takin pre-orders for the Samsung Wave, the first device to run Samung’s new open-sourced mobile platform, Bada.

The Wave, which features a Super AMOLED 3.3” touchscreen and 1Ghz processor is designed to offer more “fun and a diverse mobile experience” to the affordable end of the smartphone market, says Korean manufacturer Samsung.

The name Bada means “ocean” and the intention is that the platform will be populated with smartphones for every level of use.

At the heart of the Bada experience is the social experience and Bada offers the ability to intergrate their text messages, instant messaging services and social networks in one place.

Samsung Wave deals start as low as £15 per month, and the handset is free on tariffs of £25 with a 24 month commitment and comes with as many as 600 cross network minutes.

The Samsung Wave launches in the UK on the 1st June.