Actually, this Samsung SH-100 from 1988 wasn’t that ‘smart’…
turned to the world’s first móvil inteligente manufacturerThe truth is that Samsung has a very interesting catalog of Galaxy devices, with terminals of all ranges and price ranges, and a greatly improved support that tidies up the usuario experience. A UI customization that is already mature, recognizable and functional same level as android not google plus.
In any case, people are certainly familiar with the giant Samsung and its prolific career in almost every aspect of the electronics and not-so-electronics industry Many of you may have wondered what was the first Samsung phone in historysome thanks to the colleagues at Conradh na Gaeilge Android authority we cánido remember you and give you all the details.
And yes, my friends the past wasn’t always like this ‘Smart’ not so Galaxy for Samsungwhich launched its first phone in South Korea many years ago, called Samsung SH-100 and several years ahead on iOS, Android and everything we know today as a mobile phone.
In fact it is Samsung hasn’t always been so successful with this phoneWell, years after the SH-100 and while HTC was victorious with Windows Phone, they took the first steps towards what would go on to be the teléfonos inteligentes we know today They were misleadingly wrong about Bada OS or more recently Tizen later inherited from the expendable and Smart TVs.
In any case, we didn’t come here to talk about success or failure, but about remind you what the first cell phones were likeso let’s find out more the story of Samsung and this SH-100 that took its first steps in 1988when I myself was only 2 years old on earth.
This was the Samsung SH-100, Samsung’s first (not so smart) cell phone
Surely none of you know that Samsung has nearly 100 historyspecifically 84 years since it was founded in Daegu (South Korea) on March 1, 1938 no electronics in your a portfolio of activities.
In fact, he would not start manufacturing and selling equipment until much later, around 31 years 1969 and under the trade name of subsidiary Samsung Electronics Began designing and manufacturing black and white devices and televisions.
Samsung’s first cell phone would have to wait a while until 1985as presented by the manufacturer in South Korea the SC-1000 as the first car phonewhich, however, would pass the market due to serious quality problems.
And finally, the Samsung SH-100 was finally introduced in 1988 which brings us here, the first proper phone from Samsung, the in fact it could be moved and transported despite being of great sizeas you will see now…
On the hand, the Samsung SH-100 scares a little more | Image from CNET
This is not only Samsung’s first mobile phone, but also also the first to be made in all of South Koreaa powerhouse in the móvil industry today, although back then Telephones were considered a luxury item and these prices Samsung SH-100 limited their sales of a few thousand units destined for the elites, as was logical.
It was a strange phone, of course I almost needed a backpack to carry it with its 11 x 45 x 5 centimeters in size. Indeed, out of curiosity, we have to tell you that, as with all terminals, you had to insert the equivalent of a SIM card, but that At the time, SIMs were the equivalent of a credit card and not as we know them today.
That was the SH-100 GSM connectivity, full numeric keypad and small screen with basic information, as well as a huge antenna and the associated microphones and loudspeakers for allow us to make and receive calls or send short text messages. That was all of its functionality, although it was a step forward for now.
Samsung continued to insist on yearly iterations until Five years later, the SH-770 was introduced, which cánido be considered Samsung’s first major success. as a cell phone manufacturer. In its case, it already had a thinner and lighter design, as well as more restrained prices, which allowed it to attract a larger number of users and Samsung will sign a 600 million deal with operator Esprint To develop and sell CDMA phones in the United States.
the rest is history and history has made Samsung the largest mobile phone manufacturer in the world and I perro tell you the same In 1999 my first phone was a very basic Samsung SGH-600with his cap and anything but very limited functionality, so you cánido see that The South Korean giant had to work hard during these 20 years and develop very quicklywith his failures and successes between…
And you, what was your first cell phone?