History of Samsung

Enters mobile business

Dec 3, 1997

After the sucess of mermory chips, Samsung moved on to mobile industries. they first invented LCD plants and liquid crystal display screen. They are now top of the LCD market.

first cell phone with Mp3 capabilities

Dec 3, 1999

Samsung SPH-I300

Dec 3, 2001

Anyone who thinks smartphones started with Apple will be shocked to see that Samsung was building Palm-powered smartphones for Sprint five years before the iPhone hit the market. Squint a little, and it can look like a distant ancestor of today's touch-screen slab-phones, with its very finger-centric interface. "The disadvantage of using a touch screen as a phone dialer is that you can't dial by feeling the buttons," our reviewer Bruce Brown said at the time.Sascha Segan, 2013 via pcmag.com

Samsung SPH-A303

Mar 3, 2003

Sliding phone released with wireless multimedia services.

Samsung Gravity

Feb 2, 2008

The Samsung Gravity is their first to feature a slide-out keyboard that has proved popular in other brands.