Appearance, assembly
In general, the smartphone is quite thin and light. The back cover is made of glossy plastic and scratches very easily. Therefore, it is not recommended to carry it in your pocket with keys and change. But the glass here is special, from Gorilla Glass. Despite all the assurances and crash tests, it can be scratched quite easily, especially for girls with earrings. There is a plastic edging around the entire perimeter, which crunches in the vast majority of i9000s, from which we can conclude that the build quality is far from ideal.
Iron
Despite the fact that the smartphone was the flagship of 2010, its hardware allows you to enjoy almost all modern 3D games. This is facilitated by a good Samsung S5PC111 processor with a frequency of 1 GHz and the ability to overclock it to 1.4 GHz, as well as a powerful PowerVR SGX540 video accelerator, which by the way is used in the new Samsung Galaxy Tab 2 10.1 tablet. The smartphone comes with 8 or 16 GB of internal memory, but there is 512 MB of RAM.
History of Samsung Electronics: From dried fish to high technology
Hello, Habr! You always warmly welcomed my posts on history - for example, about Nintendo, navigators, smart watches and Soviet computers. This time, Samsung, one of the largest manufacturers of high-tech components and telecommunications equipment, came under attack. I hope you will like the post this time too.
Of course, it would not be possible to talk about everything at once - since Samsung produces too much, including construction equipment, chemicals and food products. Here are only the main milestones - such as the creation of the first mass-produced Blu-ray player, curved TVs, smart watches, android phones and badafones.
I wonder if you remember this hot air balloon? I was three or four years old when in the early 1990s we bought either a TV or a VCR in a big blue box with this design. Unfortunately, I couldn't find a single photo on the Internet.
Back in 1910, Lee Byung Chol was born. His father was a large landowner, so he could afford to send his son to the University of Tokyo. After the death of his father, Lee Byung-chul uses the inheritance to open his own business - although at that time in South Korea this was not an easy task, since the country was a Japanese colony.
The image shows a warehouse in Daegu, where the history of Samsung began.
In 1938, the name Samsung Trading Company appeared - then it was a company exporting goods to China and Manchuria. The entrepreneur did not stop there and founded several more companies that engaged in the production of sugar and fabric, as well as an insurance company.
Lee Byung-chul died in 1987.
TVs
In the 1960s, the era of black and white TVs began for Samsung.
The company merges with Sanyo and releases its first black and white TV, designated p-3202. In 1976, the company's millionth black and white TV was produced. To begin producing televisions, Samsung-Sanyo Electronics was formed, renamed Samsung Electro-Mechanics in 1975 and becoming Samsung Electronics in 1977.
In 1987, an institute was created that began developing new products. As soon as international laws allowed it in the 1990s, Samsung immediately began exporting TVs around the world. Together with Sony, the company was developing liquid crystal displays. In the late 1990s, Samsung produced the largest LCD displays - 30 inches diagonal.
One of the 1997 models.
In 1998, the company began producing flat-screen TVs. At the beginning of this century, the company led the industry, creating the thinnest TV in 2002 and the world's first two-sided LCD display in 2006. In 2005, it had the largest OLED panel - 21 inches, and it was made by Samsung.
The world's first mass-produced Blu-ray player was released by Samsung in 2006. The model was designated BD-P1000. The release of the player helped Blu-ray win the “Format War,” and a couple of years later HD DVDs were discontinued. Warner Brothers was the last company to abandon HD DVD.
In 2007, Samsung introduced Internet TV - the ability to simultaneously watch TV shows and receive information from your Internet. A little later, Samsung Smart TV appeared.
In 2010, sales of Samsung 3D TVs began. In the first six months, more than a million copies were bought. The company was the first in the industry to have a full range of 3D equipment for the home: TVs, Blu-ray players, content and glasses.
The world's first curved UHD TV was introduced by Samsung in 2014 at CES. The TV diagonal is 105 inches, aspect ratio is 21:9. Screen resolution: 5120 x 2160 pixels. Auto Depth Enhancer technology allows you to watch 3D movies without glasses. The company's line of UHD TVs now includes a dozen models. You can also play games from Electronic Arts (EA) and Gameloft on these smart TVs. The brains are a quad-core processor from Samsung.
Cell phones and smartphones
Samsung entered the telecommunications market in 1977, forming the Samsung Telecommunications division, which became part of the Samsung Group.
The division was created for the production of mobile phones and other portable devices - laptops, players, as well as network equipment. 10 years after the opening of the division, in 1988, the SH-100 cell phone entered the Korean market. Not only is this the first cell phone produced by Samsung, it is also the first cell phone produced in Korea, so the gadget is very symbolic.
SH-700 was released in 1993. It was an “ultra-light” cell phone - it weighed only one hundred grams. It was much smaller than phones offered by other companies at the time.
In 2003, the SPH-A500 clamshell was one of the lightest, most comfortable and stylish.
That same year, Samsung presented its first phone at Windows Mobile 2002. It was the SCH-i600. In combination, this is the company's first cellular phone that works with 3G.
The 2004 A790 was Samsung's first CDMA- and GSM-compatible phone. This clamshell also has two displays, the internal diagonal is 2.35 inches. By the way, it did not have a speakerphone or e-mail support.
Here's one of the first camera phones! The Samsung MM-A800 slider, which debuted in 2005, was the first cellular phone with a 2-megapixel camera in the United States. But it had a drawback: it did not work on 3G networks.
The slim and attractive U600 is a slider with a 2.2-inch display. Now the navigation button is not trapezoidal, as in previous models, but round.
Samsung BlackJack in 2003 was a dream for many. It worked in 3G and had a keyboard. In my opinion, it was an excellent business-class phone at that time. Suddenly, the company was attacked by trolls from RIM - they were sure that consumers would not be able to distinguish a Blackberry from a Blackjack.
4 years later, the Samsung Ultra II line appeared in Russia and went on sale.
Samsung released the first phone with a touchscreen in 2008. This cell phone boasted flash-3D effects, gesture control and haptic feedback. Which, however, I always turn off when I pick up a new gadget.
And here is one of the first smartphones on Android - I7500 - appeared in 2009, it was the very first Galaxy. It had a 3.2-inch AMOLED display, connected to Wi-Fi, and had a built-in GPS receiver. Thickness is only 11.9 millimeters.
In 2010, the first smartphone was released running the bada 1.0 operating system. It was the flagship Samsung Wave S8500. The operating system lived for only a few years, until in February 2013 Samsung announced the merger of bada with Tizen, thereby announcing the end of bada. Who owned this smartphone - what games did they play?
The Wave S8500 smartphone is worth noting for its display - SuperAMOLED was used for the first time. Super Active Matrix Organic Light-Emitting Diode technology means that the touch layer is glued to the screen, eliminating the air gap between them. Thus, these displays are sharper, images are easier to see in sunlight, colors are richer, and the display itself is thinner.
Technical characteristics of Samsung Wave S8500
Operating system:
bada
Processor:
Samsung Exynos 3110, 1000 MHz
Video processor:
PowerVR SGX540
Display:
3.3 inch SuperAMOLED
Built-in memory:
2 GB
Memory card support:
microSD (TransFlash), up to 32 GB
Camera:
5 MP, 2560×1920, built-in flash
Standard:
GSM 900/1800/1900, 3G
Interfaces:
Wi-Fi, Bluetooth 3.0, USB
Battery capacity:
1500 mAh
Weight:
118 g
Dimensions:
56x118x11 mm
Samsung Galaxy S was released in 2010. It was built on a 1GHz ARM Hummingbird processor, had a 4-inch display and a 5-megapixel camera.
In November of the same year, Eric Schmidt introduced the Nexus S, a smartphone that Samsung and Google worked on jointly. The smartphone was built on the Exynos 3110 processor, working in conjunction with 512MB of RAM. But it didn’t have an expansion slot—we had to limit ourselves to the built-in 16GB. Not the best tradition.
Technical characteristics of Google Nexus S
Processor:
Cortex A8 (Hummingbird), 1000 MHz
Video accelerator:
PowerVR SGX540
Memory:
ROM 16 GB, RAM 512 MB
Operating system:
Android 2.3
Standards:
GSM 850/900/1800/1900, WCDMA 900/2100
Screen:
Super AMOLED, 4″, 480x800 pixels, touch, capacitive
Interfaces:
USB 2.0 (microUSB), Bluetooth 2.1+EDR (A2DP), Wi-Fi 802.11 b/g/n
Built-in camera:
5 MP, autofocus, widescreen shooting, flash, geotagging
Battery, autonomy:
Li-Ion, 1500 mAh, 1–2 days
Additional features:
GPS (maps preinstalled), MS Exchange, synchronization with Google services
In 2011, the Galaxy S II was presented at the Mobile World Congress in Barcelona. Thanks to this model, Samsung overtook Apple in smartphone sales in the third quarter of 2011. The smartphone is equipped with a 4.27-inch SUPER AMOLED Plus display.
The flagships of 2012 were the Samsung Galaxy S III Apple iPhone 5 and Nokia Lumia 920. The most anticipated smartphone of 2011 from Samsung caused many rumors, which ultimately did not come true. But users received an excellent smartphone based on a quad-core Exynos 4412 1.4 GHz processor, equipped with a 4.8-inch HD SuperAMOLED display, 1 GB of RAM, a 2100 mAh battery and an 8-megapixel camera. The company's Smart Stay function allowed the front camera to recognize the user's gaze and not turn off the display if the gaze was directed at it.
This ad compares the Galaxy S3 to the iPhone 5. "You don't need to be a genius"
In 2012, the company overtook everyone in smartphone sales.
Then there was and is the Galaxy S4, which will not soon become obsolete.
Specifications Samsung Galaxy S4
Processor:
Octa Core Octa Core (1.6 GHz Quad Core + 1.2 GHz Quad Core)
Display:
5 inch Full HD Super AMOLED 1920 x 1080
Operating system:
Android 4.2.2 (Jelly Bean)
Battery:
2,600 mAh
Built-in memory:
16 / 32 / 64 GB
Main camera:
13 megapixels.
Front camera:
2 megapixels.
Flash:
Power LED
Standard:
GSM/GPRS/EDGE (850/900/1800/1900 MHz) HSPA+ (850/900/1 900/2 100 MHz)
Wireless networks:
Wi-Fi: 802.11 b/g/n, Wi -Fi Direct, Bluetooth 4.0, NFC
Location:
GPS / GLONASS
Weight:
130 g
Dimensions:
136.6 x 69.8 x 7.9 mm
In April this year, sales of the Samsung Galaxy S5, the company's new flagship, will begin. The smartphone is built on the basis of a quad-core Qualcomm Snapdragon 801 2.5 GHz.
Specifications Samsung Galaxy S5
Processor
: quad-core Qualcomm Snapdragon 800 MSM8974 2.5 GHz
Built-in memory:
16 GB / 32 GB
Screen:
5.1″ 1920×1080 PPI 432
OS:
Android 4.4
Main camera:
16 MP
Front camera:
2 MP
RAM:
2 GB
Memory card:
microSD (TransFlash) up to 128 GB
Cellular networks
: GSM 850, 900, 1800, 1900;
UMTS - 850, 900, 1900, 2100; GPRS, EDGE, 3G, 4G Wi-Fi Battery:
2800 mAh
Water and dust protection:
IP67
Weight:
145 g
Dimensions:
142 × 72.5 × 8.1 mm
As a nice addition, the model received a fingerprint scanner and a heart rate monitor. And the 16 megapixel main camera of the Galaxy S5 is built using ISOCELL technology developed by Samsung. The essence of the technology is to create a physical barrier between adjacent pixels, which “allows more photons to accurately arrive from a specific microlens and be collected in the desired photodiode with a minimum level of unwanted electrical crosstalk between pixels.”
Wearable electronics
One of the pioneers in the field of smart watches was Samsung. In 1999, the Samsung SPH-WP10, a wrist phone in the form factor of a watch, went on sale. The project could be as revolutionary as smartphones. But at that moment, for some reason, everyone thought that it was stylish, but nothing more. And now, in 2014, we see that smartwatches have become very popular.
In 2001, at CES in Las Vegas, Samsung brought a new hybrid watch and cell phone that looked much more interesting. The gadget had a monochrome display and understood voice commands after pressing the appropriate button.
Smart watches stubbornly refused to become trends! But Samsung did not give up and again introduced a gadget of this form factor in 2009. Samsung S9110 had a touch display.
In October, Samsung made another attempt to capture the market for these devices by introducing the Samsung Galaxy Gear to the world.
The continuation was the Samsung Galaxy Gear 2. They no longer run on Android, but on their own Tizen operating system, due to which the use time has increased to 2-3 days with normal use and up to 6 days with “light” use of functions.
Samsung Gear Fit is positioned as the industry's first wearable device with a curved Super AMOLED display. The gadget can be used independently as a fitness tracker, or can work in conjunction with a smartphone. The 1.84-inch display displays incoming calls, mail and messages, reminders, scheduler alerts and other applications. The straps are interchangeable - there are black, orange and mocha. Sales will start next month.
Specifications Samsung Gear Fit
Display:
1.84-inch curved Super AMOLED with a resolution of 432 x 128 pixels
Additional functions:
pedometer, exercise, heart rate monitor, sleep tracker, stopwatch, timer
Water and dust protection:
IP67
Interface:
Bluetooth 4.0 LE
Sensors:
accelerometer, gyroscope, heart rate sensor
Battery:
210 mAh capacity
life:
3 - 4 days (normal use), up to 5 days (economical use)
Dimensions:
23.4 x 57.4 x 11.95 mm
Weight:
27 grams
For those wishing to develop applications for wearable electronics, Samsung has released Tizen SDK for Wearable, available for download.
Computers, laptops and tablets
The first Samsung personal computer appeared only on the Korean market in 1982 and was produced until 1986. The model was designated SPC-1000.
The computer was built on the Z80 processor and was produced in Korea, although the BASIC for it was created in Japan by Hudson soft. It had 70 KB of RAM. On the left side of the case there is an ILP button that starts loading the operating system from a magnetic cassette.
Specifications Samsung SPC-1000
Processor:
Z80-A 4 MHz
RAM:
64 KB
Video RAM:
6 KB
Read-Only Storage:
32
Text display:
32 characters x 16 lines
Graphics:
128 x 192 / 256 x 192 pixels
Colors:
9 (semigraphic), 4 (128 x 192 mode), 2 (256 x 192 mode)
Sound:
3 voices, 8 octaves
Dimensions:
48 x 27.5 x 9.5 cm
Media:
built-in cassette player
Operating system:
CP/M with connected flopboard
Price :
495,000 won, about $600
Advertising video from 1984.
Samsung's first laptop was the S5200, released in 1989 for the Korean market.
Samsung entered the global laptop market in 2003 with several lines under letter designations. The Samsung X-10, presented that year at CeBit, was built on an Intel Pentium M Centrino 1.3-1.7 GHz, had 512 MB of RAM, a 60 GB hard drive, a 64 MB video card, a DVD/CDRW drive and WIFI 802.11b. The laptop weighed 1.8 kg and its thickness was 2.38 cm.
In 2005, the Samsung M70 transformer appeared. The laptop's display could be detached and attached to a stand, turning it into a sleek home computer shorts.
In the states, sales of Samsung laptops began quite recently - in 2009. The first to go on sale was the 13-inch Samsung Q310 in two versions. The younger model was equipped with an Intel Core 2 Duo T5800 2.0GHz processor and a 250 GB hard drive, the older model was equipped with an Intel Core 2 Duo P8400 with 320 GB of memory.
The Samsung Galaxy Tab line began in 2010. The first model has a 7-inch touch screen with a resolution of 1024 x 600 pixels and an ARM processor with a frequency of 1000 MHz.
Samsung Galaxy Tab 7.7 (GT-P6800), introduced in 2012, became the world's first tablet computer with a Super AMOLED Plus screen.
The good news for Samsung was this year's ban on Russian officials using iPads. According to the head of the Ministry of Telecom and Mass Communications, Nikolai Nikiforov, this decision regarding tablets is of a technical nature, and Samsung tablets for officials are “specially protected devices.”
At the beginning of this year, Samsung's line of tablets continued with the Pro series. The first to appear were the Galaxy Note Pro 12.2 and Tab Pro 12.2, 10.1 and 8.4 inches. Screen resolution is 2560 x 1600 pixels.
Samsung plans to release a second series of Chromebooks this May. They will be available with 11.6 and 13.3 inch displays. The cases are stylized to look like leather.
The 13.3-inch version has a Full HD screen resolution of 1920x1080 pixels and is equipped with 4 GB of RAM. The version with an 11.6-inch display has a resolution of 1366x768 and 2 GB of RAM. Each of the laptops has a 16 GB eMMC iNAND drive, HDMI and USB 2.0/3.0 connectors, microSD card slots, a pair of 2 W speakers and a webcam with HD shooting function.
Chromebook 2 (13.3-inch) Specifications
Screen:
13.3-inch Full HD LED (1920x1080);
Operating system:
Google Chrome;
Processor:
Samsung Exynos 5 Octa (2.1GHz, 2MB L2 Cache);
RAM:
4GB DDR3L;
Storage:
16GB e.MMC iNAND;
Camera:
720p (HD);
Battery:
stated operating time up to 8.5 hours;
Connections and connectors:
1 HDMI, 1 USB 3.0, 1 USB 2.0, MicroSD card reader, headphone output/combo microphone input, DC-in;
Dimensions:
323 x 224 x 16.5 mm;
Weight:
1.4 kg.
Chromebook 2 (11.6-inch) Specifications
Screen:
11.6-inch LED (1366 x 768);
Operating system:
Google Chrome;
Processor:
Samsung Exynos 5 Octa (1.9GHz, 2MB L2 Cache);
RAM:
2GB DDR3L;
Storage:
16GB e.MMC iNAND;
Camera:
720p (HD);
Battery:
stated operating time up to 8 hours;
Connections and connectors:
1 HDMI, 1 USB 3.0, 1 USB 2.0, MicroSD card reader, headphone output/combo microphone input, DC-in;
Dimensions:
290 x 205 x 16.8 mm;
Weight:
1.1 kg.
Gaming consoles
Korea also had its own Sega Saturn - only it was produced by Samsung. Sales started in November 1994. It was simply impossible not to mention it.
This is interesting: Old advertisements for cell phones and smartphones (from the 1980s to the end of the 2000s) The history of Nintendo led by Hiroshi Yamauchi The history of smart watches Cheers! Wearable devices in sports and medicine
Video, photo Samsung Galaxy S i9000
The camera here is quite mediocre, at 5 Mpx, but the ability to record video in 720p, of very good quality, dramatically adds a few points to it. Below you can see a video review, as well as photos in comparison with the Galaxy Note.
Initially, the smartphone was supplied with Android OS 2.1, then new versions were released, up to 2.3.6. At this point the updates were completed and Samsung did not make ICS firmware for the i9000. But enthusiasts corrected this problem by releasing a completely working Android 4.0, which can also be downloaded on our website.
The letter “S” marks Samsung’s top-end devices
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Samsung Galaxy S21
Now we know when Galaxy S appeared on the world market and what stages it took place in one of the largest electronics markets, but what does this really mean?
In short, “S” is simply a letter used to group and differentiate the many mobile devices offered by Samsung. The letter is reserved for high-end, top-end smartphones and tablets.
The idea is that if you see a Galaxy gadget with an "S" in its model name, you'll know it's a premium device. As this, however, happens in real life.
Thus, the main purpose of the appearance of the letter “S” is:
- segmentation of various devices by class;
- a hint to buyers that this is a top-end device.
By the way, it is interesting to note that there are still some differences within the “S” models. For example, the Galaxy S “FE” line is assembled from slightly more affordable versions of its flagship counterparts.
