TheSamsung SPH-i300 is asmartphone running onPalm OS, manufactured bySamsung.[2] The device was released in October 2001 and marketed in theUnited States for use onSprint's CDMA based cellular network.[3][4] It was the first "PDA phone" (as devices that combined phone and PDA functions were then called) in the US with a color screen.
The phone has acandybar-style design. It operates like a standard color Palm OS device, but several hard (external) and software buttons launch the 'phone' application, which manages calls. The phone shipped with a charging cradle with aDE-9serial port, extra battery, and a case.
Installed applications included ones carried over from existing Palm handheld non-phone devices:Graffiti, Memo Pad, Date Book, Scheduler, Calculator, To Do List, Alarm/Clock, Address Book, Expense Manager, and Palm Desktop Software. ZIO PalmGolf was another application.
In addition, applications to support voice and data communications were included:Blazer, Mail, Messages, Phone, Speed Dial, Voice Dial, and Voice Memo.
The SPH-i300 was the first Palm-OS-based smartphone from Samsung, and cost $499.[5] The phone was not compatible with Sprint'sCDMA 1x network (which is actually 2.5G but was wrongly labeled by Sprint as3G[6]) and its maximum connection speed of 14.4 kbit/s made browsing slow, but browsing "the real web" in 2001 was an advance on theWAP browsers on other mobile phones. It competed with another Palm OS phone, theKyocera 6035,[1] which was the first Palm OS based cellular phone.[3]
Samsung followed up the SPH-i300 with the SPH-i330 in 2003, also on Sprint. The SPH-i330 has a more rounded body and PC connectivity over USB rather than a serial port, but has the same screen, Palm OS version, and general feature set as the SPH-i300.[7]
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