Samsung History

Unlike other electronic companies Samsung origins were not involving electronics but other products. In 1938 the Samsung's founder Byung-Chull Lee set up a trade export company in Korea, selling fish, vegetables, and fruit to China. Within a decade Samusng had flour mills and confectionary machines and became a co-operation in 1951. Humble beginnings. From 1958 onwards Samsung began to expand into other industries such as financial, media, chemicals and ship building throughout the 1970's. In 1969, Samsung Electronics was established producing what Samsung is most famous for, Televisions, Mobile Phones (throughout 90's), Radio's, Computer components and other electronics devices. 1987 founder and chairman, Byung-Chull Lee passed away and Kun-Hee Lee took over as chairman. In the 1990's Samsung began to expand globally building factories in the US, Britain, Germany, Thailand, Mexico, Spain and China until 1997. In 1997 nearly all Korean businesses shrunk in size and Samsung was no exception. They sold businesses to relieve debt and cut employees down lowering personnel by 50,000. But thanks to the electronic industry they managed to curb this and continue to grow. The history of Samsung and mobile phones stretches back to over 10 years. In 1993 Samsung developed the 'lightest' mobile phone of its era. The SCH-800 and it was available on CDMA networks. Then they developed smart phones and a phone combined mp3 player towards the end of the 20th century. To this date Samsung are dedicated to the 3G industry. Making video,camera phones at a speed to keep up with consumer demand. Samsung has made steady growth in the mobile industry and are currently second but competitor Nokia is ahead with more than 100% increase in shares.  Samsung enters dual SIM foray By MYLA IGLESIAS With the rising demand for dual SIM (subscriber identity module) phones in the country, Korean mobile phone manufacturer Samsung recently launched its new line of products targeting savvy Pinoys who use two lines at the same time. The new dual SIM product lines include Samsung Champ Deluxe DUOS, Chat 222 and GT-E1182. Coco Domingo, Samsung head for product marketing, said that the company has seen the demand for such phones in country with the increasing number of multiple SIM users. "We pioneered dual SIM phones since 2007 but we concentrated on the smartphones in the past years. So now we’re trying to come in offering a wide range of products," he said. Samsung’s latest set of phones has a "Dual SIM, Dual On" technology. This means that unlike some competitor dual SIM phones that require manual SIM selection, both SIMs remain active at all times, ensuring that one is always reachable, always accessible, no matter which SIM one prefers to use. So users no longer have to swap in and out from one SIM to another, or reboot their mobile phones to stay in the loop with friends on different networks. All three are not wiFi enabled phones but has built-in ChatON instant messaging service – a service that enables users to talk and connect with anyone else in the ChatON world for free. "Gone are the days of budgeting your SMS allocation, or relying on dry, dreary, basic text characters to speak one’s mind," Domingo said. Unlike other free instant messaging services that cut across with just a limited number of operating systems, the Champ Deluxe DUOS’ ChatON software cuts broadly across multiple popular platforms – Android, bada, certain versions of Java, and even your PC desktop, to name a few. The new Samsung Champ Deluxe DUOS’ sleek form nestles comfortably in the hand as you take advantage of the ample 2.8" TFT touch screen to snap paparazzi photos, browse through your personal music collection, or even connect to a star-struck world through the built-in instant messaging service – a service one would normally expect to be found only on high-end smartphones. The Samsung Champ Deluxe DUOS is equipped adequately with all the basics you need to be a junior multi-media star-in-the-making: A 1.3 megapixel camera with 2x digital zoom, Bluetooth connectivity, video recording and playback, FM radio capability, a built-in Music Player, and 20MB of user memory that’s expandable to 16GB. Samsung Champ suggested retail price of just PhP4,190, Chat 222 is about P2,000 and E11 is P1,400. Last week, the company also launched Galaxy Y Duo, the variant for dual SIM. Samsung's new Galaxy Pocket laughs at cheap Windows Phones By Andy Boxall | Digital Trends – Tue, Mar 6, 2012 Samsung has announced a new mobile phone to add to its already massive range of Android devices, but rather than being a super-special, top-of-the-range monster, it’s a very ordinary handset with a set of basic features. If you’re wondering why you should care, it’s because it’s Samsung’s response to the growing threat of a cheap Windows Phone. The phone in question is the Samsung Galaxy Pocket, and it runs Android 2.3 Gingerbread which is displayed on a 2.8-inch touchscreen with a 320 x 240 pixel resolution. An 832Mhz processor can be found inside, while a 2-megapixel camera can be found on the rear of the phone’s casing. Just 3GB of internal memory is on hand to store your pictures, music and apps. Other features include Wi-Fi, 3G with HSDPA connectivity, a microSD card slot to increase the storage by up to 32GB, plus an FM radio too. Android is covered in Samsung’s TouchWiz skin, and there’s the usual array of the company’s apps too, including the cross-platform messenger service called ChatON. At 12mm thick and 97 grams in weight, the Galaxy Pocket screams “I’m very, very average” at passers-by. Which is exactly what a lot of consumers want, especially as the Pocket will be very, very cheap too. Pricing How cheap? Samsung hasn’t said yet, but as the aging S5570 Galaxy Mini — which has a slightly larger screen and a better camera — can be had for £100/$140 unlocked, there’s a good chance it’ll be available for double-figures in both currencies. There are plenty of bargain Android phones already on the market, but most are branded by a network or wear less desirable brand names. Samsung has plenty of cache, a fact backed up by its status as the world’s number one smartphone manufacturer. Android too, is astonishingly popular, and although many will lust after the Galaxy S II and all its competitors, most will just be looking for a cheap phone for themselves, their family or as a second handset. You probably know all this already, as it was revealed at Mobile World Congress that there are now 850,000 new Android activations per day, a figure which speaks for itself. It’s good, solid, cheap phones like the Galaxy Pocket which make up a fair chunk of that massive figure too, and it’s this performance that Microsoft is chasing with Windows Phone . Competition The Nokia Lumia 610 was revealed at Mobile World Congress, and it’ll sit in the cheap seats alongside the Lumia 710 and other devices such as the ZTE Orbit for Windows Phone later this year. Windows Phone Tango will drop the minimum spec requirements needed to run the OS, and in turn the price of the hardware will drop too. But the Lumia 610 is going to cost £160/$250 unlocked, and even though it has a better camera and larger screen than the Pocket, it still represents the cheapest Windows Phone option. Down at this end of the pricing scale, cheaper means better and at the moment, Windows Phone doesn’t have an answer for phones such as the Galaxy Pocket. Leaving aside the operating system side presents another interesting conundrum for Nokia, as at the moment its Asha series of smart feature phones can easily compete with the Galaxy Pocket, except they run on Symbian, an OS destined for the grave in a few years. The Lumia 610 is cheap, but it looks like Microsoft will need to make Windows Phone even cheaper if it wants to truly compete with Android. Samsung Galaxy Phones Get Norton Mobile Security Software brings much-needed malware protection to the smartphone. By Shaylin Clark · March 6, 2012 · Leave a Comment inShare5 Norton has announced that they are bringing a new suite of security software to Samsung’s Galaxy line of Android-based smartphones. The software provides a variety of tools to secure users’ phones against both theft and malware. Norton Mobile Security lets users find their devices remotely, much like Apple’s Find My iPhone service. It also allows users to lock their phones via the internet or SMS message, in order to protect data. In a worst-case scenario it also includes a remote wipe feature. This feature, which can also be activated via SMS, removes all data from the phone. Removal of the SIM also initiates the lock, preventing a would-be thief from using the phone by replacing the SIM. In addition, it includes anti-malware functionality that scans all files and app updates. Threats are detected and removed automatically. The software also screens any SD cards that are added to the phone in order to prevent harmful software from being loaded onto the phone that way. Norton Mobile security also updates itself automatically, keeping its security definitions up to date without relying on the user to update the software. While the addition of security software will no doubt open up Android phones to the same criticism Mac users have been leveling at PCs for years (malware on the iPhone, as on the Mac, is a virtually nonexistent problem), the fact is that software like this is necessary. Recent data from both McAfee and CompTIA has shown that Android-based smartphones are becoming the number one target for malware. Securing these devices is becoming more and more important, especially as their use in the business world is on the increase. Norton Mobile Security is a free app that can be downloaded from Samsung’s App market. With Rugged Phones, Samsung Seeks Business Customers By BRIAN X. CHEN | February 23, 2012, 6:17 pm 2 The Rugby Smart is a water-resistant, dustproof smartphone that can withstand high temperatures. It’s increasingly clear that Samsung wants to be a big player in mobile devices for business customers. The Korean manufacturer has released smartphones that threaten to eat both Research In Motion’s and Microsoft’s lunch — and those are both companies that have thrived through their relationships with big businesses. Samsung on Thursday announced the Rugby Smart, a water-resistant, dustproof smartphone that can withstand high temperatures. Rugged devices are designed for people who work outdoors, like landscapers, painters and construction workers. This is Microsoft’s turf. Its Windows Mobile software has been powering a vast majority of rugged devices for years. It’s a small market that ships about two million devices a year, according to I.D.C. — but nonetheless, it’s a valuable niche, as these devices tend to cost more and last longer than consumer-oriented smartphones. Samsung’s Rugby Smart runs version 2.3 of the Android operating system — not the newest version of Google’s software, but still newer than Windows Mobile, which hasn’t seen a significant upgrade since 2010. It has a 3.7-inch touch-screen display, a 5-megapixel camera, a front-facing camera for videoconferencing and a flashlight. The cost is $100 with a two-year contract, which is an aggressive price tag for a rugged device. And the features are more modern than those of rugged Windows Mobile devices. Samsung isn’t pulling punches. The Korean manufacturer last year released the Galaxy xCover, a rugged smartphone running Android. And Samsung recently released Android smartphones with stronger security features for professionals, which is helping achieve big growth in Android usage in European businesses, threatening to take customers away from Research In Motion. The "Samsung Galaxy Not" and Other Wacky Phones of MWC In the deep recesses of the Mobile World Congress show floor, mysterious manufacturers are rolling out bizarre phones. Share inShare2 0digg BARCELONA–It's the Samsung Galaxy…Not. Samsung's gigantic smartphone has apparently inspired many a factory in China, if some of the bizarro phone/tablet hybrids on display in the back halls of Mobile World Congress are to be believed. Deep in Hall 2 at MWC is a scrum of small Chinese phone manufacturing companies, selling a broad array of cheap, nondescript handsets and clones of devices by leading phone-makers. There are some interesting remixes, too, like the Telstar S7350, a dual-SIM phone with a 960-by-640 "retina display," the first phone I've seen with that exact resolution other than an iPhone. At the booth, a Telstar rep insisted the display was "the exact same" as the iPhone's, although the Android 4.0 demo unit he showed me barely worked. View Slideshow See all (13) slides More On the high end of the generic Chinese manufacturers is Umeox, which has typically taken hot mobile trends and put them into less-expensive phones very quickly. Last year Umeox had the "Apollo," a solar-powered phone. (Solar phones were hot in 2011.) This year, the company has the Xland, a 5.3-inch, Android 2.3-powered smartphone/tablet that feels just plain silly. The Xland is 10.9-mm thick, with a slick, glossy black plastic back. It has a meaty 2500mAh battery, dual-SIM support, and a 5-megapixel camera; I couldn't find details on the processor it uses. The Xland seems to have an altered Android UI, with Gingerbread changed to look more like Ice Cream Sandwich. In the meantime, the company made it really difficult to find the phone's app list. The Xland feels clunky. It's not junky, but all the parts are a definite notch below high-class. At 800-by-480 resolution, the 5.3-inch screen is a bit grainy, and the phone feels a little thick. Like the Samsung Galaxy Note, of course, I can't figure out quite what you would do with this thing. Holding up such a big phone to your head just feels silly. If you have a 5.3-inch panel lying around, of course, you don't just make one phone with it. Thus Umeox is also showing the "Xland 2," which is slimmer with a "classy look and feel," and the "Xnote," which comes with a stylus but doesn't appear to have the active digitizer that Samsung's Galaxy Note does. Want something even more different? There's the 1.8-inch V3, a tiny, super-slim phone (at 5.8mm) which looks like a credit card with numbers on it. There's also the K100 kiddie phone, brightly colored and ruggedized, which only dials four numbers. The amount of churning going on in some of these Chinese booths is amazing. Nothing is forgotten; phone design fads from 2005, like the limited-dialing kiddie phones, live alongside the latest hot trends, like those 5.3-inch screens. If you want it, you can have it. Maybe it isn't as finished or polished as a Samsung (or for that matter a Huawei) product, but it costs a heck of a lot less. Take a look at some of the unexpected phones coming from Umeox and other Chinese vendors in our slideshow. I can guarantee you that none of them will ever be sold in the United States; none of these companies have the resources to pass U.S. carrier testing processes. For more, check out the MWC photo gallery below, and our complete Mobile World Congress coverage. Motorola joins LG and Samsung to offer phones with VMware hypervisor User expereince still cluncky as industry works towards effective BYOD for enterprise By Nancy Gohring | Published: 09:10, 06 March 2012 Motorola Mobility has joined LG and Samsung among the companies building VMware's hypervisor into their phones. The move is part of a larger push at Motorola to cater to business users. VMware's mobile hypervisor works on Android phones and lets users switch between an "open" portion of the phone, which they can use for personal functions, and a business side that's controlled by IT and protected from potentially malicious applications. Motorola didn't share many details about its plans, such as which models will get the hypervisor and when, but it appears VMware may be planning to formally announce the partnership soon. A VMware spokeswoman said the company expected to announce other OEMs, besides LG and Samsung, "in the coming months." Those phone makers have pledged to build VMware's technology into all their phone models. Related Articles on Techworld Google-Motorola deal could close source Android, says HP CEO | Motorola Android users face wait for Ice Cream Sandwich | Motorola Solutions debuts lightweight handheld computer There are some downsides to the "dual-persona" approach to mobile virtualisation, said an executive from Motorola. "The thing I haven't seen yet is a user experience consumers could embrace," said Christy Wyatt, vice president of enterprise at Motorola Mobility. Samsung Wants Windows Phone 8 Phones Samsung likes the idea of having one platform that can be inter-operable between devices. The company has confirmed that it will be manufacturing phones based on the emerging Windows Phone 8 operating system. Techradar.com quoted Samsung product manager Matt Brum as saying, "We're very excited about [Windows Phone 8], as we're one of very few manufacturers that can do the convergence story that we can - so the fact that Windows 8 covers everything from tablets to laptops to phones is very cool." During its first year on the market, Windows Phone was somewhat of a flop. While there was a nice amount of manufacturer support, solely because of the relationships Microsoft has built up over the years, consumers weren't excited. That is, until Nokia came into the picture. The Lumia line of Windows Phone handsets has single-handedly energized the entire mobile platform, becoming the best-selling Windows Phone in its first quarter on the market. Now, other manufacturers are no doubt turning their heads. And with Windows 8 coming out soon, a platform that will try its best to be inter-operable between computers and tablets, and possibly phones and maybe even the Xbox 360, there's more reason than ever to be intrigued. The new version of Windows Phone, which is currently code-named Apollo, is expected to be revealed later this year. So far very few details have emerged, but many expect it to look and feel almost exactly like Windows 8.