Samsung SGH-T100

The Samsung SGH-T100 is a dual-band GSM mobile phone developed and manufactured by South Korean company Samsung Electronics,^[1] introduced at the CeBIT fair in 2002. It is a flip phone with a color display, and is an upgraded version of the SGH-A800 which had a monochrome internal LCD screen instead.^[2]

Samsung SGH-T100

Manufacturer	Samsung
Compatible networks	GSM 900/1800
Form factor	clamshell
Dimensions	80 x 50 x 23mm
Weight	3.32 oz (94 g)
Battery	Lithium Ion 720 mAh
Display	160 x 128 TFT LCD

The Samsung SGH-T100 was the first mobile phone to use a thin-film transistor active matrix LCD display; prior to the release of the SGH-T100 all phones had used passive matrix display technology.^[3] It was also the first GSM phone displaying 4096 shades of colours - previous colour phones like Ericsson T68 could only do 256 colours.^[4]

The T100 became popular for its stylish looks, display and polyphonic ringtones, and was credited for bringing typically Japanese technologies to GSM markets like Europe.^[5] By 2003, the T100 had sold over 10 million units worldwide, becoming Samsung's first to reach this milestone.^[1] The T100 was succeeded by Samsung SGH-T400.

Above the T100, Samsung offered in 2002 the SGH-S100, a handset aimed more at professionals that has many extra features like GPRS and support for Java apps. The top model, SGH-V100, had GPRS capability as well as the possibility to view short video clips in MPEG-4 format.^[6]

Variants

• SGH-T108: Chinese Anycall version.

Related phones

• Samsung SCH-X420 - South Korean CDMA monochrome internal display version.
• Samsung SCH-X430 - SK Telecom version. Has a Yamaha MA-3 (40poly vs 16poly).
• Samsung SCH-A562 - Pelephone Israel version. Hardware identical to the SCH-X430.