Samsung SPH-i300 [SEP] operating system
Samsung SPH-i300
The Samsung SPH-i300 was an early Palm OS-based smartphone manufactured by Samsung. It was released around 2001.
It was marketed in the United States for use on Sprint's mobile phone network.
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 CDMA phone has a candybar-style design.
It operates like a standard color Palm OS device, but several hard
to support voice and data communications were included: Blazer, Mail, Messages, Phone, Speed Dial, Voice Dial, and Voice Memo.
History and reception.
The SPH-i300 was the first Palm-OS-based smartphone from Samsung, and cost $499. The phone was not compatible with Sprint's 3G network and its maximum connection speed of 14.4kbit/s made browsing slow, but browsing "the real web" in 2001 was an advance on the WAP browsers on other mobile phones. It