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>>>Mobile Phones >>> Network Systems >>>> Core Systems >>>> Wireless
SGH-D500 Mobile Phone
This sleek slide-up GSM phone features
a 1.3-megapixel camera, MP3 player, and
convenient Bluetooth connectivity.
MOBILE PHONES SOLD 2004 86.5 million
55.7 million
2003
TELECOMMUNICATION NETWORK BUSINESS
The global mobile market grew 31% in 2004 with more than 680 million phones sold worldwide. This
remarkable growth was driven by strong replacement demand in mature markets as customers traded up to
phones with camera, camcorder, video-on-demand, and other multimedia capabilities as well as surging
demand in emerging markets such as Brazil, China, India, and Russia. These favorable conditions enabled us
to far surpass our initial sales goal of 65 million handsets as we sold 86.5 million phones worldwide, a 55.3%
increase that once again made us the world’s No. 1 supplier of CDMA phones and No. 3 overall behind
Nokia and Motorola with 12.7% of the global market. Our system sales also grew at a modest pace in 2004,
reaching $1.08 billion as we demonstrated WiBro, the world’s first mobile broadband solution based on the
IEEE 802.16e standard that supports Internet connections while moving at speeds of up to 60 km per hour.
Demonstrated the SCH-B100 satellite
DMB phone. Named top US phone brand
for a third straight year in the Brand Keys
Customer Loyalty Awards.
MAY
Introduced the SCH-A790, the world’s first
CDMA/GSM “world phone” at CeBIT 2004.
Won iF Design Awards for SPH-i500 and
SCH-X800/SPH-X9100 phones.
MARCH
Launched the SPH-S2300, the world’s first
3.2-megapixel camera phone with
a 3x optical zoom.
JULY
03 SALES 04 03 OPERATING PROFIT 04
FINANCIAL HIGHLIGHTS
$18.1 billion
$11.9 billion $2.7billion
$2.3billion