Samsung U100
Way back in 1950 when Byung-Chul Lee founded the Samsung Trading Company in Seoul You can bet that he had no idea as to what the future held. You can guarantee that he had never even conceived the idea that such a device as a mobile telephone would exist. Even at the end of his life in 1987 the mobile phone was only just coming into existance and it was the big Radio Manufacturers who had the know-how to turn their 2-way Radios into A portable Telephone device.
With the Founder bowing out, The company he started at the time the world started to embrace Mobile Telephone Technology had only been in the electronics industry for about 5 years or so. Samsung really is a bit of a latecomer to the World market and it was in the 90’s the company went thru several changes. Samsung as a corporation made their mark (and still does) as the largest Memory chip manufacturer in the world.
With their knowledge of Computer memory chips during the first few years of the 21st Century one of the Areas that they moved into was the mobile phone handset market. In terms of the Mobile phone market they are a bit of a “johnny come lately” but don’t let that fool you. Their Latest Mobile handset, the Samsung U100 is every bit as feature-packed and even better than the phones offered by some of the more traditional mobile phone manufacturers.
From a trading company in what was an emerging 3rd world country to a global Manufacturing group in a bit over 50 years we can not even begin to guess the things yet to be invented that they will be manufacturing 50 years from now.