Samsung Mobile Phones

Samsung Mobile Phones

Samsung’s History

From its inception as a small export business in Taegu, Korea, SAMSUNG has grown to become one of the world's leading electronics companies, specializing in digital appliances and media, semiconductors, memory, and system integration. Today Samsung’s innovative and top quality products and processes are world recognized. This timeline captures the major milestones in Samsung’s history, showing how the company expanded its product lines and reach, grew its revenue and market share, and has followed its mission of making life better for consumers around the world.

Pioneering The Digital Age

The digital age has brought revolutionary change – and opportunity – to global business, and SAMSUNG has responded with advanced technologies, competitive products, and constant innovation.

At SAMSUNG, we see every challenge as an opportunity and believe we are perfectly positioned as one of the world's recognized leaders in the digital technology industry.
Our commitment to being the world's best has won us the No.1 global market share for 13 of our products, including semiconductors, TFT-LCDs, monitors and CDMA mobile phones. Looking forward, we're making historic advances in research and development of our overall semiconductor line, including flash memory and non-memory, custom semiconductors, DRAM and SRAM, as well as producing best-in-class LCDs, mobile phones, digital appliances, and more.

2008

• Samsung takes No. 1 spot in U.S. mobile phones market
• No.1 worldwide market share position for TVs achieved for the 9th quarter in a row

2007

• No.1 worldwide market share position for TVs achieved for the seventh quarter in a row
• Developed the world's first 30nm-class 64Gb NAND Flash™ memory
• Blackjack bestowed the Best Smart Phone award at CTIA in the U.S.
• Attained No.1 worldwide market share position for LCD for the sixth year in a row

2006

• Developed the world's first real double-sided LCD
• Developed the worlds' first 50nm 1G DRAM
• Unveiled 10M pixel camera phone
• Launched "Stealth Vacuum," a vacuum cleaner with the world's lowest level of noises
• Launched the worlds' first Blu-Ray Disc Player
• Developed 1.72"Super-Reflective LCD Screen

2005

• Developed the largest Flexible LCD Panel
• Ranked 27th in "the World's Most Admired Company" of Fortune
• Became the official sponsor of Chelsea, the renowned English soccer club
• Released the world's first 7 mega pixel camera phone
• Developed the world's first OLED for 40" TV
• Became the official sponsor of Chelsea, the renowned English soccer club
• Developed the first-ever speech recognition phone

2004

• Produced the first wrinkle-free steam washer
• Sold more than 20 million cellular phones in the U.S
• Developed the world's first 60-nano 8GB NAND Flash memory chip
• Ranked top in mobile phone sales in Russia
• Released new PDP TV featuring the highest contrast ratio in the world
• Developed a 3rd Generation Optical Blue-Ray Disc Recorder
• Developed cellular phone chip for satellite DMB system
• Released 46" LCD TV for the first time in the world

2003

• SAMSUNG brand value ranked 25th in the world by Interbrand
• Ranked 5th on the "Most Admired Electronics Company" list released by the Fortune Magazine
• Released the first HD DVD combo

2002

• Development of the 54"TFT-LCD, the largest digital TV monitor in the world
• Launches PDP-TV, the slimmest in the world
• Launch of color mobile phones in which the new concept UFB-LCD is introduced
• Launched new high-definition TFT-LCD color cellular phone

2001

• Ranked No. 1 of world's Top 100 IT Companies by Business Week
• Unveils 16 Chord Progression Melody Phone
• Begins Mass Production of 512Mb Flash Memory Device
• Unveils Industry's First Ultra-Slim Handset
• Develops World's first 40 inch TFT-LCD

2000

• Unveils TFT-LCD with Record-breaking Definition
• Launches PDA phone
• SAMSUNG Olympic Games Phone selected as the official mobile phone of the Sydney 2000 Olympic Games
• TV Phone and Watch Phone Make Guinness Book of World Records
• Unveils the Worlds Fastest Graphics Memory Chip
• SAMSUNG Electronics and Yahoo! Form Strategic Alliance
• Develops Unique All-in-one DVD Player
• Developed world's first 512Mb DRAM