- Samsung Helps Make the Screens Used in iPhones . Apple and Samsung are two of the biggest rivals in the smartphone industry, but they also do business with each other.Samsung Display has been an important supplier of OLED panels for Apple’s iPhones. So while Apple designs the iPhone and controls the final product, some of the display technology users look at every day can come from one of Apple’s biggest competitors. Your iPhone can literally contain technology supplied by Samsung.
- Sony Is Behind a Huge Number of Smartphone Camera Sensors. When you take a photo with a flagship smartphone, the camera system may have a Sony image sensor inside it Sony is one of the world’s major manufacturers of CMOS image sensors, which are the components that actually capture the light and turn it into digital image data. That means a phone from one company can rely on camera sensor technology supplied by another company sometimes one consumers wouldn’t expect.
- Android’s Browser Technology Has Roots in Apple’s Web. Here’s where the story gets interesting. Google’s Blink browser engine, used by Chrome and Chromium-based browsers, was created by forking WebKit. WebKit itself originated from Apple’s work and was used as the foundation of Safari.So it isn’t accurate to say that Android currently runs on Apple’s WebKit. It doesn’t.But the history is fascinating: the technology behind today’s Android/Chrome web experience has roots in a project that Apple helped create.
- Samsung Had a Chance to Buy Android And Passed. Before Android became the world’s dominant mobile operating system, Andy Rubin’s Android team approached Samsung in 2004. Samsung reportedly wasn’t convinced by the idea and passed. Google then acquired Android in 2005.
- Nokia Used to Make Paper and Rubber Boots Before It Became a Phone Giant”. Nokia wasn’t originally a phone company at all. It began in 1865 as a wood- pulp/paper mill in Finland. The business later moved into rubber products, cables and electronics before eventually becoming one of the world’s biggest mobile-phone companies.
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