Samsung SGH-D500
slider-style mobile phone created by Samsung
The Samsung SGH-D500 is a slider-style mobile phone developed and designed by Samsung. It was announced on October 8, 2004 and released at the end of the year as a replacement of the SGH-E800. Considered to be stylish, and incorporating multimedia features such as a 1.3 megapixel digital camera with integrated LED flash, Bluetooth and a MP3 music player, the D500 became very popular and is credited with popularising the 'active' sliding phone concept across all brands.
The D500 won the prestigious award "Best Mobile Handset" at the 3GSM world congress in Cannes, 2005. The phone sold 10 million units worldwide. Other Samsung handsets that reached this milestone in the 2000s include: the E250, the E700, the J700, the T100 (the company's first million seller), and the S5230 (Star/Tocco Lite). The D500 was succeeded by the D600 introduced a year later.
Flashing
Due to wireless networks supplying the D500 to customers with branded software, this phone is very often "flashed" by owners. This removes/changes onscreen branding, the unpopular shortcut sidebar and non-optional sounds (e.g. branding sound on power-on/off).
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