Samsung may not be the first to make a smartphone, but it was one of the first players to truly get aggressive about the market, introducing the first “PDA phone” with a color display in the U.S. market in 2001. Called the SPH-i300, this bad boy was designed for Sprint’s network and ran on Palm OS, with all the functions of a standard PDA, with the added bonus of making calls.
So yes, the SPH-i300 can be considered Samsung’s first go at making “a smartphone” for the U.S. market. Wow, things sure have changed a lot since then.
