14 DAY TRIAL // Samsung is no stranger to self-praising. Some time ago the Korean tech giant reviewed its own Gear S smartwatch and proclaimed it to be awesome.
This week, good-old Sammy goes into a laudatory phase again whilst rolling out an infographic showcasing the evolution of mobile communication which the company has helped push forward.
We’re basically given a history lesson beginning with Samsung’s SH-100 phone that started all the way back in 1988.
Samsung takes you back to the past
It was the first mobile phone to be designed and manufactured in Korea, but back then the perception of mobile devices was very low and even though Sammy started introducing a new model every each year, these early models only managed to sell in one or two thousand units.
Stepping into the era of 2G, the next phone highlighted in the infographic is the SCH-100 which was the world’s first commercialized CDMA and CDMA2000 phone and launched in 1996. The same year Samsung signed an exclusive deal with US carrier Sprint to provide phones for the US market.
A few years later in 2000, Sammy rolled out the SCH-X100 which was also a premiere, being the first CDMA 2000 1x phone.
From the early 3G era, Samsung mentions the SCH-W120, the world’s first “synchronized-asynchronized handover” feature and the SCH-E100 is said to be the first third-generation 1X EV-DO device.
Advancing in the era of 4G, we find familiar phones such as the SCH-R900, considered to be the first LTE mobile phone (it wasn't even a smartphone but a feature phone) the world has ever seen (launched in 2010). Then in 2011, the Galaxy SII LTE came along, followed by the Galaxy SIII LTE in 2012, which added VoLTE service.
The Galaxy Note 4 S-LTE is a road opener
The infographic ends with the current Samsung flagship, the Galaxy Note 4 S-LTE, which is the world’s first tri-band carrier aggregation-enabled handset. As you might have guessed from the schematics, Samsung’s latest phablet is paving the way towards 5G technology.
Check out Samsung’s 27-year journey in the world of communications in the slides attached in the gallery below to understand the impact the Korean tech giant has on the continuously developing mobile world.
