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This Samsung infographic tracks the evolution of the camera phone

Published Mar 9, 2018 | Lars Rehm

With a variable aperture, super-slow-motion and (in the case of the Plus model) a dual-camera setup, Samsung's newly announced flagship smartphones Galaxy S9 and S9 Plus put a lot of emphasis on camera features and performance. But, of course, this is far from Samsung's first foray into camera phone tech.

Samsung has long been at the forefront of mobile imaging, and to visualize this fact, the company has released am infographic that puts its camera phone innovations onto a timeline of the past 18 years.

The graphic starts with Samsung's first camera phone—the SCH-V200—which was launched in 2000 and allowed you to shoot and store up to 20 0.11MP images (you still needed a computer to view them, though). From there, it move on to a number of flip-style feature phones and smartphone classics, such as the first Galaxy S or the Galaxy S4 Zoom.

As you would expect, the infographic ends with the new Galaxy S9 models, but it includes technical data and interesting tidbits about all the featured phones—well worth a closer look for anyone interested in tech history. Check it out for yourself below:

Via: GSM Arena, Source: Samsung

Tags: mobile, camera-phone, history, phone-photography, samsung, smartphone-camera, smartphone-photography

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unLTE

its a shame they leave the samsung galaxy camera series
hell i own the galaxy camera 1, there is a lot of potential if they bothered updating it to android 5
they even bothered by making a galaxy NX but doesnt bother with proper updates

5 months agopermalink

Peiasdf

Pretty sure Japanese makers and Nokia was ahead of Samsung in camera up to maybe 2015. In fact, I am pretty sure they started cameraphone way earlier than Samsung as well.

5 months agopermalink

GregAtlanta

I'm really surprised Samsung didn't include the "Flipshop U-900" flip phone from a number of years ago. This was pre-smartphone days. It was a solidly built flip phone that when opened, allowed you to rotate the top half of it 180 degrees, and then close it onto the phone body. The top half screen then became the "back" screen of a traditional looking camera, with a normal looking camera lens on the now front of the camera. In other words, a transformer type phone that when folded looked just like a small pocket point-and-shoot camera. 3MP sensor actually took pretty darn good pics, too.

These things were something like $399 back in the day but always turned heads when I used it in public. Samsung goofed big time by not advertising it much (if almost not at all).

5 months agopermalink

Kingmax

(Little, noisy and non-ergonomic) camera on a phone: you can love or hate it. I choose to hate it, and I know De gustibus non est disputandum

5 months agopermalink

p51d007

For snapshots, or point & shoot, these smartphones aren't bad in semi-poor to good lighting, but as we all know, the SUPER TINY image sensors are just that. Super tiny. I wish they would go back to bigger smartphones, then they could put something similar to an APS-C sensor, with a real 5-10x zoom lens, similar to the Samsung zoom.

5 months agopermalink

b0k3h

have you taken a second to think about the physics and dimensions of fitting an APS_C sensor and corresponding 5-10x zoom lens on a smartphone?

5 months agopermalink

p51d007

Shoot, I'd be happy with a 4/3 size sensor! The Galaxy S4 Zoom, had a 10X and it really wasn't "that" big, but, in the age of "slim, sexy & colorful", it won't happen.

5 months agopermalink

Impulses

Panasonic put a 4/3 sensor into an Android phone with the CM1, and a prime lens which still needed to be retracted electronically (but still makes more sense than a larger zoom or a smaller sensor with a longer zoom, IMO)... It didn't really catch on at all.

As far as thickness wise it was closer to an original EVO, or like 12-14mm. I do think the push to make phones as thin as possible has gotten silly, but more modern phones definitely handle better than my OG EVO... 10mm is a decent sweet spot where I wouldn't trade battery life for a thinner device.

Anyway, APS-C would push things way out of scope... I think it's odd they've all these different modular permutations of add on cameras (small sensor + zoom, 1" sensor + zoom, 1" & 4/3 sensor + lens mounts, etc.) but no one bothered to make a 1" + prime module that's really compact.

That would be the sweet spot IMO, not sure if it'd work within the phone but as a mod I think there's a market.

5 months agopermalink

Sessility

So the evolution is all about MP ... sigh :-(

5 months agopermalink

Jonsi

You should have read the text, not just the specs.

5 months agopermalink

mgblack74

And along the way heavily "borrowed" the design concepts from the popular phones of the day. I see a lot of Motorola, Blackberry and Apple there. Gooooooo Samsung! P.S. I'm looking hard at the S8/S9.

5 months agopermalink

cosinaphile

maybe an infographic showing how and when samsung abandoned its system users
in a flash of corporate unkindness and pennypinching

5 months agopermalink

cosinaphile

my wife has the s4 zoom that amazes everyone who sees it ... its getting old , but is in great condition got it 1\2 price closeout at b&h for 250usd 4 years ago

5 months agopermalink

just someone

Where the one exploding?

5 months agopermalink

cosinaphile

5 months agopermalink

Reactive

Sorry, is this site called Dull Phone Review? I thought it used to be aimed at photography enthusiasts?

5 months agopermalink

A620er

What a snobbish comment. I thought the site was aimed at photographers - ie people who take photographs (irrelevant of the type of camera used)

5 months agopermalink

Ergo607

Tech history? From Samsung? Nah..!

5 months agopermalink

matthew saville

I remember when the Motorola Razr was the coolest phone you could buy haha. Good times.

5 months agopermalink

inorogNL

hmmm but where is note 7???

5 months agopermalink

DarnGoodPhotos

Samsung doesn't consider it a notable example.

5 months ago*permalink

BokehFanatic

On a more serious note, why would the Note be noted?

5 months agopermalink

tkbslc

Samsung has definitely played a big part in the camera phone story. But they aren't trying to claim they invented the selfie, are they?

5 months agopermalink

otto k

It's possible that this was the first camera that could be used as a forward facing camera on a phone. I can't remember an older one, but I could be wrong.

5 months agopermalink

DarnGoodPhotos

There were film compacts with a mirrored surface on the front to help with selfies...of course we just called them self-portraits.

5 months agopermalink

otto k

Well yes, phones used to have small mirrors next to the camera as well but I don't think that qualifies as selfie camera, but this is just a marketing post so it's not really concerned with details...

5 months agopermalink

DarnGoodPhotos

Selfies are self-portraits. The mirrors were there to help with self-portraits.

5 months agopermalink

quiquae

The first cameraphone ever, Kyocera VP-210 (released 1999), was in fact a selfie camera.

http://wirelesswatch.jp/2014/07/09/world-first-camera-phone-the-kyocera-vp-210/

5 months agopermalink

cosinaphile

thank you for the historical link ,

"fascinating captain"

5 months agopermalink

DarnGoodPhotos

Interesting the VP-210. Its sounds the intent of that camera was video chatting but can see how it was also good for self-portraits.

5 months ago*permalink

b0k3h

well, atleast we know their marketing department was not the first one to "single-handedly introduce" lying to the public.

5 months agopermalink

Impulses

Pretty sure selfies existed before camera phones, now who coined the corny/trendy term might be another story... It's kinda like blog, the cloud, abs a lot of other things that were a thing long before the trendy name became mainstream.

5 months agopermalink

DarnGoodPhotos

Yep, they were called self-portraits and there were film cameras with mirrors on the front to help with composition.

5 months agopermalink

cosinaphile

I think we can agree that self-portraits never became a social phenom. before the advent of camera phones, and while the Kyocera is apparently the earliest, with regards to the lens position, it seems the intent was as a chat visual.
No matter the historical sequence it is firmly embedded in social behavior now without signs of wavering.
The whole selfie craze saddens me as it seems to breed narcissism, egotism, and shallowness, also the trend to make cults of personality an acceptable insanely popular diversion, instead of the shackles to unenlightened conduct, greed, self-interest, and mindlessness it has become.

5 months ago*permalink

DarnGoodPhotos

I don't think camera phones are the thing which made self-portraits a social phenomena. Early ones were too constrained by both the limits of your email list and general hassle of sharing, not to mention the cost of sharing via MMS.

it took the combination of low cost, low effort, and wide distribution before it took off as a social phenomena.

5 months agopermalink

cosinaphile

well yes , but even with that delay it is the phone and its camera along with social idiocy and narcissism that are responsible for the current omnipresence of the phenomenon

5 months agopermalink

DarnGoodPhotos

Sure, but prior to 'getting likes from thousands of strangers' the reinforcement you would get from people you knew was similar to that if you just used a digital camera. Camera phones didn't cause it, easy of inexpensive sharing with strangers did.

5 months ago*permalink

Impulses

Yeah, cameras with flip screens were around for years and plenty of people, myself included, took self portraits... If the term and the social phenomenon is tied to anything it's to the way they're now shared. In the end it's just a tool like any other, humans have been misusing tools for ages, don't be so doom and glum about it... Before long there'll be something that'll rub you even worse!

5 months agopermalink

Oclux

Sadly the Galaxies Zoom line did not succeed, my 4 year Kzoom is my backup phone and I love it: 1/2.3 sensor, 10x optical zoom, terrific building and screen, if it had fingerprint sensor It would still be main cellphone.

5 months agopermalink

cosinaphile

my wifes phone , yes its lovely

5 months agopermalink

PhozoKozmos

mobile phones with cameras offered share-a-digital-pic late in the communication game

where folks were already sharing digital camera pics via www (email/websites) since the mid-1990's (not counting digital scans of film prints)

5 months agopermalink

tkbslc

But they weren't sharing them from the device they took the picture with or even from the location where they just barely took the photo.

5 months agopermalink

PhozoKozmos

same device, different device.
plenty still want to pp it (on a pc) before sending it

in the end, it was sent via internet anyway (email!)
no need for paying mobile phone data fees

granted, in old internet days, and photos even a fraction of a megapixel was quite large to share!!!

mobile phones were rare, and clunky behemoths (no cameras)

5 months ago*permalink

Revenant

It is exactly the ability to share pictures directly from the capturing device that is the reason why smartphones has all but killed off the P&S camera market. In the consumer realm, convenience trumps everything else. The only post-processing most people care about is the one they can do quickly and easily with their smartphones.

5 months agopermalink

PhozoKozmos

yes. share from device that acts as capture device also
decades later
dcameras now do the same via wifi
not everyone shares pics via phone-msg, but via internet (wifi)

5 months agopermalink

Giklab

What does that even mean, almost nobody uses MMS anyway.

5 months agopermalink

cosinaphile

indeed the ability to share on the computer you always have in hand [ ones cellphone ] decimated the camera compact industry, all facets in fact.

5 months agopermalink

Threaded

I’ve no idea why Samsung are pretending the galaxy s was their first smartphone. They had a long line of terrible Windows Mobile smartphones (with cameras) before they started making terrible Android smartphones.

5 months agopermalink

MySimplePhotosToday

My first Samsung smartphone ran on Symbian which was before the Galaxy S.
Maybe it's not inline with what they think is cool.

5 months agopermalink

cpt kent

Oh yeah, I'd repressed that memory..... (actually not, but it made my decision to never again buy any Samsung product again).

5 months agopermalink

cosinaphile

hitching a wagon to microsoft was a mistake , look what it did to the finest cellphone cameras in history , by nokia

5 months agopermalink

LensBeginner

The Galaxy S (i9000) was a low point in cellphone cameras.

The Nokia N95, which was released more than three years before, run circles around it, it was ludicrous.

It didn't even have a flash.

5 months ago*permalink

Sir Nick of High Point

Info-graphics like this just highlight how futile the whole thing really is.

5 months agopermalink

piratejabez

5 months agopermalink

whakapu

Strangely enough I think I might actually get your point ... if it is that it's futile to try to have the latest phone because before the smoke from your birthday candles has climbed the sky your amazing new phone is a quaint throwback in an info-graphic.

5 months agopermalink

Sir Nick of High Point

Pretty much. I was just observing how each caption makes it sound like "this is the camera phone that will finally make you happy."

5 months agopermalink

piratejabez

Thanks for the clarification.

5 months agopermalink

Gmon750

Yeah, it also helps that Samsung has its R&D office at 1 Infinite Loop in Cupertino.

5 months agopermalink

Lars V

In this case, hardly. And everyone imitates, borrows, copies, steals ideas. It's the nature of technology evolution, and the evolution of civilization in general.

5 months agopermalink

tkbslc

Apple had really sweet cameras on their non-existent phone line in the early 2000s.

5 months ago*permalink

zerlings

With the S7, it said "Samsung releases its first smartphone with dual pixel AF...". Is this is same technology that Canon has? I thought it is a canon proprietary.

5 months agopermalink

panther fan

It is very similar and not Canon proprietary. Over the past years all major companies have issued patents related to dual pixel technology, including Sony, Samsung, Panasonic, Nikon, Canon and probably many more. Both Samsung and Sony also produce dual pixel sensors for smartphones. Some Smartphones like the S7, S8 and S9 use it only for autofocus but google actually also figured out how to create a depth map with dual pixel data and uses this in their Pixel 2 to create the bokeh effect with a single lens.

All of the companies above probably have enough patents to start a lawsuit over it. But they probably have cross-license agreements. Otherwise no single company could build a cmos sensor.

5 months ago*permalink

falconeyes

Also, Canon filed their original dual pixel af patent the weekend after Fuji filed their original phase sensel patent. The Fuji patent is a real invention, the Canon patent is trivial. They just replaced the dead half pixels by live half pixels which was an obvious option in Fuji‘s original patent. Patents today are just used as a weapon arsenal looked at prior to going at war with another company.

5 months agopermalink

Revenant

I thought that the regular OSPDAF implementation used by Fuji and others didn't have any sub-pixels, one "dead" and one "live". I thought that a phase-detect pixel was a regular pixel, only that half of it was masked off. Canon's invention would then consist in having two sub-pixels at every photo site, so that every photo site can be used both for image capture and AF. Doesn't seem trivial to me. Have I misunderstood something here?

5 months agopermalink

falconeyes

If one of two sub pixels is dead, you end up with a pixel very similar to an ordinary one.

5 months agopermalink

jaykumarr

2005-2012 There was no match for Blackberry. I owned both iphone and Samsung Galaxy. None matched Blackberry as phone/business tool/camera. But still BB lost predominantly because the entertainment it failed to provide.

5 months agopermalink

PerfectMark

I had BBs during that time period too and I always remember their photos being much worse than iPhones. They also got progressively more unreliable after 2007 as RIM rushed to release models to complete with the iPhone. Their first touch screen phone was a buggy mess. I also remember one bug on their first BB10 phones where it would delete all recent email from a users inbox. So I am so glad businesses don't use them anymore.

5 months agopermalink

Murat Sahan

_Interesting. But I always thought that the real first "good" camera phone was an
Ericsson the K750 with 2mp?

5 months ago*permalink

io_bg

You didn't expect Samsung to include a Sony Ericsson phone in their infographic, did you? ;)

5 months agopermalink

Xerien

Aha...Sony Ericsson of past...their K series phones were nothing but awesome for the time. Except for the crippled OS which was based on Java and Flash something ? Satio was based on S60v5, which was too late to save the sinking boat.

Also if I remember correctly, Japanese cellphones had pretty good cameras, specially from Sharp and co. (At least in terms of specifications)

5 months agopermalink

io_bg

SE's non-OS phones were great. They should've never switched to s60v5, it was a frustrating experience - I owned the Vivaz for a couple of years.

5 months agopermalink

Murat Sahan

io_bg hehe good joke :)

5 months agopermalink

NemanRa

I still use my K700 ;)
Regards

5 months agopermalink

BokehFanatic

Oh yeah, the K700, K750, K800, K850 phones were awesome. I have fonder memories of those phones (I owned only the K750 and K850) than from the iPhones I have owned.

5 months agopermalink

falconeyes

What happened in the missing 5 years 2005 to 2010? ;)

5 months ago*permalink

LessMirrored19

iPhone launch

5 months agopermalink

Gmon750

Yep... kind of convenient to leave that little time-slot conspicuously empty isn't it? 5 years for a phone is a lifetime in the tech arena.

5 months agopermalink

steviewa

Yep they missed off the pixel 8(which i had ) and pixel 12 which had an oled screen if memory server me right

5 months agopermalink

TrojMacReady

2008: first 8MP phone camera in the Samsung i8510
2009: first phone to shoot HD (720P) video, the OMNIA HD i8910

5 months ago*permalink

Mssimo

Im sure samsung was talking about how stupid is a phone without a keyboard or something to that effect.

5 months agopermalink

otto k

Also in 2009 a hilariously named M8910 Pixon12 with... Wait for it... 12MP camera in a phone.

5 months agopermalink

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