Infographic: Samsung’s 25 years of wearable devices evolution

If we want to talk about the history of smartwatches, we have to go back about 40 years, to 1983, when the revolutionary Seiko Data-2000 digital watch was launched. Believe it or not, this watch allowed users to store notes on its internal memory of up to 2000 characters. You needed a special keyboard to type the notes. Then IBM and Microsoft entered the game with their own witty sci-fi watches.

Samsung entered the wearables game in 1999, and since then it has released quite a few gadgets: you remember some very well, others – not at all, I'm sure.

There is a wonderful Samsung infographic It starts with the world's first watch phone in 1999 (the Samsung SPH-WP10) – it looks like a Digimon creature, doesn't it?.

Highlighting milestones such as notable devices and dates, Samsung's infographic is presented in four categories: “Watch”, “Headphones“, “Fitness Tracker” and “Ring. The last category, of course, includes only one device: the Galaxy Ring presented at MWC.

Here is the infographic: