QUESTION · SATURDAY Q&A

Didn't Samsung make a camera phone like that years ago?

ASKED BY · Unknown · 19 SEP 2026 · ▶ 00:55:51

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Guy CochranPANELIST

Samsung released a full-point-and-shoot phone camera 13 years ago with 4G LTE; shot interview, edited in After Effects, and uploaded live while walking before NAB show opened.

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55:50I just wanted to reply to what Courtney's idea was because there was actually a phone camera. I don't know if anybody remembers it, but it looked like this. And I had one. I still have it. It's somewhere buried in a box. Samsung did it years ago. Yeah. And so I actually took this to NAB one year. And this is the result. You could actually edit on the thing.

56:10So I had this in After Effects done and it was ready to go. And I shot this interview with Dan Chung. So I edited this while I was walking. I trimmed the clip, and then I shot it with that camera before the show opened. So this was like the first unveil. I had some heads up that this camera was going to get released.

56:35This was, let me see how long ago this was, 13 years ago. But basically, I interviewed Dan Chung. Let's see, he comes up here in just a second. so it just so happened that my friend dan chung is a magazine reviewer he gave me like the first scoop of what was going on with that camera and this video got like 9 000 views pretty quick

56:58because everybody wanted to see what was going on so by nine o'clock by the time the show opened i already had a video edited and that that camera has lte on it edited and uploaded while i was walking. So this little camera right here shot that, edited it and uploaded via its built-in 4G LT 13 years ago. So pretty crazy what the technology was even back then, but it was a

57:22full-on like camera, like you were saying, Courtney, like, well, you know, if Samsung had it four years ago and about another two years, Apple will introduce it as their idea. So, hey, well to be fair to apple i don't think they've ever said that they that some of the stuff that they've done is their idea that they were the first i mean apple has historically never been

57:45first but what they do is they kind of just wait things out to make sure that the technology like if they're going to do something they're going to wait until they have something that they think is considerably a better user experience than what is already out there. Like they're not gonna do something unless they have a contribution that they think is actually worth doing.

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