Samsung's more daring phone designs: a visual history

With Samsung poised to reveal its latest take(s) on the smartphone in a matter of hours, we thought it was as good a time as any to take a look back. The Galaxy Note 5 and Galaxy S6 Edge+ are rumored to be on tap for tomorrow's festivities, two devices that would continue the company's affinity for super-sized phones and curved displays -- both of which are trends it started years ago. Of course, Samsung has experimented with a number of unique design flourishes. Some of them ended up setting the tone for the entire industry. Others, well, never really achieved liftoff (and with good reason).

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2006: Samsung X830

There was a time when rotating hinges were all the rage on phones, and Samsung's X830 catered to those sensibilities. It bore more resemblance to an MP3 player than a phone when it was closed. That was Samsung's intent, though, and a solid amount of built-in storage handled some of that MP3 collection. The screen swung up to reveal a vertically aligned keypad with two columns of buttons instead of the usual three, which was quite strange.