According to its specifications, this was Samsung's very first smartphone. and discover more about the company's history that you are unfamiliar with.
With phones in every price range and range, as well as support that has greatly improved with the development of the One experience customization and Android updates, Samsung has established itself as the world's leading smartphone manufacturer.
Nevertheless, given the size of the Samsung corporation and its extensive history in every area of the electronics industry, many of you have undoubtedly wondered what the first Samsung mobile phone ever was. With the help of Android Authority, we will be able to remind you and provide you with all the information you need to know.
Samsung has not always had a "smart" past; the Samsung SH-100, the company's first phone, was released in South Korea many years ago.
In actuality, Samsung was not always so successful with this mobile device because, years after the SH-100, HTC was making the initial moves toward the smartphones that we know today, while HTC had success with Windows Phone.
In any case, we came here to remind you of the early mobile phones, not to discuss their successes or failures. So, let us take a closer look at Samsung's history and the SH-100 phone, which debuted in 1988.
Surely none of you are aware that Samsung has been in business for nearly a century—more precisely, 84 years since its founding on March 1, 1938, in Daegu, South Korea—without producing any electronic goods.
In actuality, it did not begin producing and marketing appliances until 1969, approximately 31 years later, when it started designing and producing black-and-white televisions and household appliances under the name of its subsidiary Samsung Electronics.
Samsung's first mobile phone would have to wait a little while longer. In 1985, the South Korean company unveiled the SC-1000, the first phone made specifically for cars, but it was never put on the market because of poor quality.
The Samsung SH-100 was finally released in 1988, marking the release of Samsung's first mobile phone that was truly portable despite its enormous size, as you will see now.
Not only was this Samsung's first phone, but it was also the first made in South Korea. At the time, phones were regarded as luxury goods, and the Samsung SH-100 was only available for a few thousand, which was obviously intended for the wealthy.
With dimensions of 11 x 45 x 5 cm, the phone was obviously odd and nearly required a backpack to carry. For your curiosity, we should actually mention that, similar to all modern phones, in order to make calls, you had to insert a SIM card. However, in those days, SIM cards were the size of a credit card, not the ones we use today.
In order to make and receive calls and send text messages, the SH-100 had a large antenna, microphones, speakers, a full numeric keypad, a small display with basic information, and GSM connectivity. Although it was a significant advancement for its time, that was its only capability.
Samsung kept making iterations every year until the SH-770, which was released five years later and was arguably the company's first significant mobile phone success, was released. In its instance, it already had a lighter, thinner design and more reasonably priced phones, which helped it attract more customers and resulted in Samsung and Sprint agreeing to a $600 million deal for the development and sale of CDMA phones in the US.
You can see that the South Korean behemoth had to work hard and develop very quickly in these just over 20 years, with its failures and successes. The rest is history, and history has led Samsung to become the largest mobile phone manufacturer on the planet. I can also tell you that my first phone that I personally owned was a Samsung SGH-600 back in 1999, with a small cover and everything but very limited functions.