Happy 10th birthday Samsung Galaxy Android Police

All the manner returned on June twenty ninth, 2009, a touch enterprise named Samsung launched a smartphone just referred to as Galaxy (with out a "S") running Google's trendy Android working machine. The present day eye might also scoff at both its dated specifications and design, however the smartphone established a lineage 2d most effective in patron popularity to the iPhone, kicking off ten years of Galaxy-series phones, and today is the anniversary.

The tiny tool, with the version number GT-I7500, sported a three.2" 320x480 AMOLED show, 528MHz single-middle CPU, 128MB of RAM, 8GB of expandable garage, a 5MP camera, GSM/HSDPA assist, and a three.5mm headphone jack — that ultimate element changed into truly a major promoting factor in 2009, how instances alternate.

Majestic.

The Galaxy, first of its call, also kicked off another Samsung subculture: slow/nonexistent software program updates. It may additionally have launched with Android Cupcake 1.5, but best some regions were given an update to Donut 1.6 a yr later, and no further respectable updates ever materialized (though third-celebration ROMs existed).

2010's bigger, faster Galaxy S may also have achieved extra to set the series' layout language going ahead, and it surely came to extra countries and client's wallet, however the original "S"-much less Galaxy laid the rules for a decade of high-quality-selling Android phones.

The impact of the Galaxy line upon phone design can not be overstated. The Galaxy S noticed dozens of variations pushed out in a frenzy of carrier rebadging, and the Galaxy S II which followed sold so many devices that it bordered on a cultural icon — an icon that Verizon neglected out on, choosing the Galaxy Nexus instead in a mistake it'd never repeat.

Starting with the Galaxy S3, Samsung subsequently caught with a unified design across providers and started out actually building the Galaxy collection image in consumer's minds with a consistency it formerly lacked. Some of the features Samsung added to next phones, like IP-rated water resistance, became fundamental requirements for flagship telephones — even though lots of other functions popularized through the Galaxy series in no way unfold past them. The Galaxy Note collection' energetic stylus may not have led to much mimicry, as an example, but its huge-screen design changed phone layout completely. Its 5.3" display is undoubtedly small by means of present day requirements, and even factoring bezels into consideration, many famous current telephones have a larger footprint. Bloggers might also have laughed lower back then, but the Note collection was a runaway achievement.

For years, Samsung's Galaxy S series has traded blows with Apple for the number one position on "great of" lists, and the Galaxy call itself has increased a long way beyond phones to encompass pills, wearables, and even headphones. While all of us look ahead to word on Samsung's subsequent Galaxy Note, it's quality to appearance lower back and reflect on how a ways things have come.

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