Samsung’s Phone Evolution (as told by Ars Technica)

A great article (click on link above) highlighting the evolution of mobile devices.  As you wax nostalgic (“I had one of those..”) think about two things – 1) How the supply chain to mass produce devices changed during this period (just ask HTC about supply chain issues), and 2) The sudden bloom of mobile applications that fueled the acceleration of the chipset-OS-handset-spectrum band-backhaul-CDN ecosystem.