The first Samsung Galaxy phone had a a 3.2-inch AMOLED capacitive touchscreen with a screen resolution of 320 x 480 pixels. Back in 2009 the 3.2 inch display of the Galaxy was seen as impressively large. Although, it was not as large as the first generation iPhone, launched the year before, with a 3.5″ screen (diagonally) 320×480 pixel and a resolution at 163 ppi.
The fact that it was a touch screen utilizing the new special features of the modern smart phone made it still a head turner for those who would see it in Samsung and telephone show room windows. The Samsung Galaxy phone was launched on 29 June 2009 as the first Android-powered device from Samsung Mobile.
Wifi phones were a new sight in mobile phone shops in the U.S and Europe. Despite economical internet packages offered by large phone service providers being scarce; the rise of internet/wifi phones and prepaid services helped create a new exciting market.
The first iPhone had been launched, July the year before was revolutionary with its touch screen and operating system designed around this new technology. Samsung endeavored to catch up quickly with a few new twists of their own. Where as iPhone concentrated on high end models, Samsung wanted to create smart phones for all budgets.
After the great impact the new iPhone in 2007, Google began redesigning their own operating system which had been bought for 50 million USD in 2005. The concept of accessing the internet and a new APP market (Android) on a mobile phone with a touch screen, became a large draw to a new generation of customers; the new availability of Google services like Gmail and Google talk could be used on the new Samsung Galaxy smart phone. The Samsung’s GPS system allowed users to utilize Google maps for travel and location.
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What Specs were the Specs of The First Samsung Galaxy Phone?
The first Samsung Galaxy phone had a a 3.2-inch AMOLED capacitive touchscreen with a screen resolution of 320 x 480 pixels. The device also featured a 5 megapixel auto focus camera with power LED flash, and a modern digital compass. The Android store opened up a new world of interesting APPs to download for customers. Did the First Samsung Galaxy Smart Phone Have a Large Touch Screen? To many people this was regarded large at the time.
The Galaxy smartphone, operated on quad-band GSM and with tri-band HSDPA (900/1700/2100) at 7.2Mbit/sand HSDPA (3.5G) 900/1700/2100, Quad band GSM / GPRS / EDGE GSM 850, GSM 900, GSM 1800, GSM 1900 3.5G was seen as good quality and fast at the time compared with older and cheaper phones that simply used EDGE technology.
What was the price of The Samsung GT-I7500 Galaxy Smart Phone?
The price of the first Samsung galaxy Smart Phone was $650 in the U.S. and 461.72 GBP in the UK.
What Does The Word Samsung mean?
In korean the word Samsung means ‘3 Stars’ The name was given by Samsung founder: Lee Byung-Chull. His reasoning was that he wanted his company to become as powerful and enduring as stars in the sky.
Samsung Launches The S Range
New higher levels of success was around the corner for Samsung. Samsung launched Galaxy S series in 2010 Samsung’s Galaxy S series is still updated with new models, with new specifications today. Samsung, nowadays is one of biggest smartphone players in the world and has the best world wide share of sales at almost 21%.
It would be the Galaxy S II, launched a few years later that would finally help Samsung to cement a place in the lucrative US market. This was due in part to an important jump to be added to 3 out of the 4 serious wireless American carriers The Galaxy S III, with its impressive 4.8″ 720×1280 pixels display would become the iPhone slayer, promoted nationwide.
What is a Capactive Display?
Wikipedia describes a capacitive touchscreen as a panel that, ‘consists of an insulator, such as glass, coated with a transparent conductor, such as indium tin oxide (ITO). As the human body is also an electrical conductor, touching the surface of the screen results in a distortion of the screen’s electrostatic field, measurable as a change in capacitance.’
The user of the phone can give commands, selcting the information processing system by simple finger touches or sweeping movements with a special stylus or one or more finger tips. Samsung continues to improve capacitive displays with thinner and more accurate touch screens. Screens for latest phones are being designed with ‘in-cell’ technology, like Samsung’s Super AMOLED screens; building capacitors inside the display reduces a layer thus making the display thinner.
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