About SAMSUNG mobile > History

2008 Mar Introduces miCoach, the new concept of sportronics mobile phone with Adidas
2007 Oct Unveils Serenata, the 2nd mobile phone from the cooperation with Bang & Olufsen
2007 Sep Unveils the Giorgio Armani Samsung mobile in cooperation with Giorgio Armani
2007 2Q Achieves the No. 2 position in mobile phone market
2007 Feb Introduces the world’s thinnest mobile Ultra Edition II awarded by Guinness Book
2006 Jun Launches the world’s first commercial Mobile WiMAX service in Korea
2005 Exceed 100 million units of annual sales since started overseas sales of mobile phones in 1996
2006 Mar Introduces the world’s first 10 Megapixel camera phone and 8GB HDD phone
2005 Oct Unveils the Serene, developed in cooperation with Bang & Olufsen
2005 Jan Introduces the world’s first mobile TV (Satellite DMB) phone SCH-B100 in Korea
2004 Oct Launches the first 5 Megapixel camera phone SCH-S250
2004 Sep Launches the first and 1.5GB HDD phone SPH-V5400
2003 Sep Achieves second 10-million unit seller with the SGH-E700
2002 Feb Introduces the world’s first TFT-LCD equipped mobile phone SGH-T100, which became Samsung’s first 10-million unit seller
2001 Ranked the third largest mobile phone manufacturer in the world for third quarter
2001 Jun Develops the world’s slimmest (9.8mm) mobile phone SPH-N2000
2000 Commercializes the first CDMA 2000 1x infrastructures (SCH-X100)
1999 Dec Develops the world’s first watch phone SPH-WP10
1999 Aug Develops the world’s first MP3 phone SCH-M210 / SPH-M2500, and analog TV phone SCH-M220
1997 Signs the contract for the official Olympic Sponsorship for Wireless Communication Equipment (started from 18th Nagano Winter Olympic Games and expanded to Beijing Olympic Games 2008)
1996 Apr Commercializes the world’s first CDMA cellular systems and mobile phones such as SCH-100
1988 Aug Introduces the first in-house developed mobile phone SH-100
1984 Diversify the business area from PSTN equipments to Optical fiber and key phone systems
1977 Launch of telecommunication network business