"Straight out, I asked Yun one thing that always baffled me: How did Japanese manufacturers—designers of the most advanced mobile handsets—allow Samsung to conquer the world handset market?

Yun explained that Samsung couldn't become a player in the analog mobile phone market because patents—owned by Motorola—were "so high."

But when the Korean government adopted Qualcomm-developed CDMA (when no other nation had committed to CDMA), Samsung seized the opening. In a sense, "Samsung saved Qualcomm," according to Yun, by pushing its CDMA phones well beyond the Korean market. Meanwhile, Samsung also made GSM handsets."

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