10 Facts About Samsung That Once Sold Pasta

Samsung, the largest smartphone manufacturer in recent years, operates in many consumer electronics, software and even automobile sectors as well as the phones it produces. We are talking about Samsung, which was once established to produce “noodles”, a type of pasta unique to the Far East.

Founded in 1938, Samsung has experienced many interesting developments that you probably did not know about. Now let’s examine these developments together.

10. The Samsung Group of Companies accounts for a significant portion of South Korea’s national income:

South Korea’s technology giant Samsung has a very important share in the country’s economy. With a market value of approximately 16% of South Korea’s gross domestic product, Samsung is naturally the country’s largest company.

South Korea GDP: 1.531 trillion dollars

Samsung Market Cap: $281.5 billion

9. Samsung’s signature in South Korea’s Defense Industry:

The technology giant, which operates in many sectors, is also the developer of the KF-16 warplanes in the fleet of the Korean army. Many years ago, Samsung stopped developing warplanes by transferring its aviation division to Korea Aerospace Industries.

8. Three stars:

This name of Samsung, which means “three stars” in Korean, symbolizes that the company is strong and big.

7. Samsung’s best selling phone:

It is a fact that Samsung’s best selling smartphone is the Galaxy S4. But when we compare all Samsung’s phones, the leader changes. Launched in 2009, the Samsung E1110 was produced until 2012 and sold 150 million copies in total. At the same time, the E1110 ranked 8th among all phones.

6. Samsung produced smartphones long before Android and iOS were released:

Samsung may not be the first smartphone manufacturer, but it is one of the first companies to step into the smartphone industry. In 2001, the Korean manufacturer launched the PDA phone SPH-i300 with a color screen in the USA. This device could make phone calls thanks to Palm OS and a private network of US operator Sprint.

Note: Many of the PDAs, which we can describe as the old generation of smartphones, did not offer the opportunity to make phone calls.

5. So what was the best selling smartphone?

The best-selling device among Samsung’s smartphones was the company’s 2013 flagship Galaxy S4. Reaching a total sales figure of 80 million, Galaxy S4 is not only Samsung’s best selling smartphone; It also managed to become the best-selling Android phone. In addition, the Galaxy S4 was the third best-selling phone among all smartphones. At the top of this list are the iPhone 6 / 6 Plus and the Symbian-based Nokia 5230.

4. Samsung attaches importance to production in its own factory:

Unlike Apple, Samsung has many factories around the world and prefers to produce its products directly in its own factories instead of manufacturers such as Foxconn. 90% of the products in the company’s product range are produced entirely by Samsung.

3. The first smartwatch came from Samsung:

Although smart watches have entered our lives in the last few years, Samsung developed a similar technology in 1999. The “clock phone”, named SPH-WP10, not only showed the time, but also allowed you to make phone calls for up to 90 minutes. The monochrome LCD device even had a voice assistant used to find contacts in the phone book.

2. Samsung could have bought Android, but it didn’t, and even turned down Android developers, almost mockingly:

According to Fred Vogelstein’s book “Dogfight: How Apple and Google Went to War and Started a Revolution”, Android developers in 2004 were looking for a company to support their projects. The reaction of the 20-person Samsung management team to Andy Rubin and his team, who went to Samsung’s headquarters in South Korea for this, was a great silence. In addition, Andy Rubin states that Samsung executives burst out laughing when they leave the meeting room.

Two weeks after this event, the team went to meet with Google and managed to receive an investment of 50 million dollars for their startups. As a result of the partnership made in early 2005, the Google and Android team completed the development of the operating system and released it in 2008. What is interesting is that Samsung is currently using the operating system of the team, which it sent with a smile, on many of its devices.

1. Let’s come to the pasta thing. Here is the noodle-maker Samsung:

This may sound pretty ridiculous when you consider where Samsung is now. It may be hard to believe, but Lee Byung-chull founded Samsung, a company that makes its own noodles, in 1938. The photo you see is the logo used by Samsung, which means three stars, when it produces noodles.

Producing a 12-inch black and white television in 1970, Samsung first stepped into the electronics industry with this device. The position that Samsung has reached today, which has a very interesting story, is at a level that will envy many technology companies.

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Source: The Fact Site, Android Authority