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this episode of Android authorities brought to you by Atlassian build what's next Samsung was destined for greatness from day one or at least its founder thought so the company's name choice reflected this ambition built from the Korean words Sam 3 and some stars and the tri symbol is said to culturally represent something like big numerous and powerful at its founding this was a pretty bold claim from a company that was nothing more than 40 employees dealing in locally grown produce and in the creation of noodles since then though Samsung has certainly found its way into more than just noodles which leads us into another interesting fact samsung is made up of around 80 different companies and has employees numbering over three hundred and seventy thousand people these companies range from construction to financial services shipbuilding and even medical while the Samsung logo changed a few times prior to the 70s after this it pretty much stayed the same changing only three times until the current logo was settled on in 1993 if it isn't broke why fix it Samsung Electronics as we know it really began with a major philosophy shift in 1993 it was in 1993 that Samsung's Chairman Lee kun-hee pushed forward a new management philosophy which encouraged product quality as its number one core tenant in fact he encouraged his staff to quote change everything except for their family Samsung's Human Resource Development Center created new training and development courses to help with this professional growth the Samsung sh100 was released back in 1996 making it the very first phone to utilize CDMA technology in retrospect being the first one to use a standard that many see as restrictive and inferior to GSM probably isn't much of a bragging right today but at the time CDMA was new technology and in the days before 4G and LTE technologies actually had some real advantages over GSM Samsung was the first to pioneer a watch that also doubled as a phone this bad boy was dubbed the samsung SP hwp 10 and this unique watch could not only tell time but it could make phone calls for up to 90 minutes after that the battery would be depleted and you'd have to use a charger now Samsung may not have been the first to make a smart phone by any means but they were one of the first players to truly get aggressive about the market and introduced the first PDA phone with a color display in the US market in 2001 it was called the SPH eye 300 and this bad boy was designed for Sprint network users and rammed palm Iowa the key to a winning product is quality right well quality helps but marketing plays a massive role sometimes more important than the quality of the product itself you could have a great product but if no one knows about it then it just doesn't matter and Samsung spends a lot of cheddar to stay at top how much we talking about well in 2013 it was around nine billion dollars and it certainly isn't getting any lower today unleash your team's potential with Atlassian's collaboration software so you can work and communicate better together a sign track and manage tasks for any project no matter how complex that's the clarity of JIRA creating share content organize results and bring team members up to speed that's the flexibility of confluence now what I especially like about Atlassian is that it doesn't force you to communicate with your team in one way if it's too tedious to type at a conversation in a chat box you can do video chat that's a good thing that's Atlassian comm unleash the potential of your team build what's next now do you know of an interesting fact about Samsung that we left out if so please leave it in the comments below we'll be reading them