Released in April 2009, this Samsung i7500 Galaxy today would almost seem like a toy
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It is today the largest mobile phone brand on the planet, in fact it is Samsung is number 1 of the smartphone industry for more than 10 years, although in reality the giant from Suwon, Seoul, It also had some beginnings and these were not so bright. In fact, we already talked to you a while ago about the first Samsung mobile phone in history, the (not so ‘smart’) SH-100, and today we are going to introduce you to the youngest of the place to the first Samsung mobile with Android that saw the light in commercial format.
It is a good time to do it, because as SamMobile colleagues published in the last few hours, this Samsung i7500 Galaxy has just turned no less than 15 years, after being introduced into society back in April 2009 at the dawn of an Android operating system that at that time was still in its infancy.
If that released an unprecedented surname Galaxy which would later become an industry reference, although this Samsung i7500 was not far from the most attractive smartphone on the market in those days, when HTC also took the step from its Windows Mobile with an HTC Magic that was probably the first best seller with Android and the mobile phone that made the platform take off.
In any case, the Samsung i7500 Galaxy does paved the way for success from a company that had certainly already started selling its Omnia with Windows Mobile very well a couple of years before.
Here you can see a small review of the time which shows it to you in all its angles, obviously excusing the quality of the video… Yes, everything has changed a lot in these 15 years!
This was the Samsung i7500 Galaxy, the first Android in Samsung’s history
It didn’t take long for Samsung to respond to the first steps of Android in mass format, and it is that the HTC Dream (aka T-Mobile G1) had been commercially launched about six months earlier of the appearance of the i7500 Galaxy, which I mixed the concept of the Samsung Omnia a little with the same buttons and format, but integrating the new operating system that Google was pushing hard.
There was key differences that only Samsung could offerand the South Korean giant implemented in its first Android mobile an AMOLED screen and larger batteries than all the competition, including here the first iPhone.
That AMOLED screen was 3.2 inches and had an HVGA resolution (320 x 480 pixels), being powered by a chipset Qualcomm MSM7200A similar to that of the HTC. RAM memory reached 128 MB while the storage, expandable with microSD, reached up to 8 GB.
It had an accelerometer, compass, GPS chip, Wi-Fi, Bluetooth 2.0 and a 5 megapixel rear camera with autofocus and LED flash, as well as Android 1.5 Cupcake pre-installed to bring your phone to life. The energy for your 1,500 mAh battery I picked it up from a micro USB v2.0 connector.
Definitely today it would look like a toybut the truth is that the mobile phone was very well done, maintaining the Physical keypads already known from Samsung and inherited from Windowswaiting to better define human-machine interactions in the Android touch interface.
Just a few months later Samsung presented in society to the legendary first generation Galaxy Swith model code Samsung i9000 and having already worked much more with the operation of Android, reducing physical buttons and giving more prominence to the screentaking advantage to promote TouchWiz 3.0 with a lot of added value from Samsung on Android.
In this industry everything moves so fast that it is undoubtedly difficult to recognize in the Samsung i7500 Galaxy what we understand today as a smartphone… Has anyone here had it?
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