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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

Mar 20, 2018permalink

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.

Mar 12, 2018permalink

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).

Mar 12, 2018permalink

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

Mar 12, 2018permalink

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.

Mar 12, 2018permalink

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?

Mar 12, 2018permalink

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.

Mar 13, 2018permalink

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.

Mar 13, 2018permalink

Sessility

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

Mar 12, 2018permalink

Jonsi

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

Mar 13, 2018permalink

m_black

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.

Mar 11, 2018permalink

cosinaphile

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

Mar 10, 2018permalink

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

Mar 10, 2018permalink

just someone

Where the one exploding?

Mar 10, 2018permalink

cosinaphile

Mar 10, 2018permalink

Reactive

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

Mar 10, 2018permalink

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)

Mar 12, 2018permalink

Ergo607

Tech history? From Samsung? Nah..!

Mar 10, 2018permalink

Astro Landscapes

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

Mar 10, 2018permalink

inorogNL

hmmm but where is note 7???

Mar 10, 2018permalink

DarnGoodPhotos

Samsung doesn't consider it a notable example.

Mar 10, 2018*permalink

BokehFanatic

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

Mar 11, 2018permalink

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?

Mar 10, 2018permalink

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.

Mar 10, 2018permalink

DarnGoodPhotos

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

Mar 10, 2018permalink

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...

Mar 10, 2018permalink

DarnGoodPhotos

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

Mar 10, 2018permalink

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/

Mar 11, 2018permalink

cosinaphile

thank you for the historical link ,

"fascinating captain"

Mar 11, 2018permalink

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.

Mar 11, 2018*permalink

b0k3h

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

Mar 12, 2018permalink

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.

Mar 13, 2018permalink

DarnGoodPhotos

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

Mar 13, 2018permalink

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.

Mar 13, 2018*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.

Mar 13, 2018permalink

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

Mar 13, 2018permalink

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.

Mar 13, 2018*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!

Mar 13, 2018permalink

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.

Mar 10, 2018permalink

cosinaphile

my wifes phone , yes its lovely

Mar 10, 2018permalink

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.

Mar 10, 2018permalink

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.

Mar 10, 2018permalink

cpt kent

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

Mar 11, 2018permalink

cosinaphile

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

Mar 11, 2018permalink

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.

Mar 9, 2018*permalink

Sir Nick of High Point

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

Mar 9, 2018permalink

piratejabez

Mar 9, 2018permalink

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.

Mar 10, 2018permalink

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."

Mar 12, 2018permalink

piratejabez

Thanks for the clarification.

Mar 12, 2018permalink

Gmon750

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

Mar 9, 2018permalink

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.

Mar 9, 2018permalink

tkbslc

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

Mar 10, 2018*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.

Mar 9, 2018permalink

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.

Mar 9, 2018*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.

Mar 10, 2018permalink

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?

Mar 10, 2018permalink

falconeyes

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

Mar 10, 2018permalink

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.

Mar 9, 2018permalink

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.

Mar 10, 2018permalink

Murat Sahan

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

Mar 9, 2018*permalink

io_bg

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

Mar 9, 2018permalink

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)

Mar 10, 2018permalink

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.

Mar 10, 2018permalink

Murat Sahan

io_bg hehe good joke :)

Mar 10, 2018permalink

NemanRa

I still use my K700 ;)
Regards

Mar 10, 2018permalink

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.

Mar 11, 2018permalink

falconeyes

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

Mar 9, 2018*permalink

LessMirrored19

iPhone launch

Mar 9, 2018permalink

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.

Mar 9, 2018permalink

steviewa

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

Mar 9, 2018permalink

TrojMacReady

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

Mar 9, 2018*permalink

Mssimo

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

Mar 9, 2018permalink

otto k

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

Mar 10, 2018permalink

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