Samsung SGH-A100 is a clamshell-style

mobile phone A mobile phone or cell phone is a portable telephone that allows users to make and receive calls over a radio frequency link while moving within a designated telephone service area, unlike fixed-location phones ( landline phones). This rad ...

designed and developed by

Samsung Electronics Samsung Electronics Co., Ltd. (SEC; stylized as SΛMSUNG; ) is a South Korean multinational major appliance and consumer electronics corporation founded on 13 January 1969 and headquartered in Yeongtong District, Suwon, South Korea. It is curr ...

. It was announced on 9 October 1999 and released in 2000 on the

GSM The Global System for Mobile Communications (GSM) is a family of standards to describe the protocols for second-generation (2G) digital cellular networks, as used by mobile devices such as mobile phones and Mobile broadband modem, mobile broadba ...

network worldwide. The SGH-A100 is the GSM version of the

CDMA Code-division multiple access (CDMA) is a channel access method used by various radio communication technologies. CDMA is an example of multiple access, where several transmitters can send information simultaneously over a single communicatio ...

SCH-A100 released in South Korea. This handset was introduced there in May 1999 with the name ' Anycall Mini Folder' where it became extremely popular. In June 2000, Samsung announced a variant, SGH-A110, with an additional WAP browser. It was slated for release by end of Q3 2000 in Singapore. The A100 was not Samsung's first flip phone: the company released the SCH-800 'Anycall Folder' in October 1998 in South Korea. It became a phenomenon similar to how the

Motorola StarTAC The StarTAC is a series of Clamshell design, clamshell-style Cellular network, cellular mobile phones developed and marketed by Motorola beginning in 1996. The first notable flip phone, the original StarTAC model was uniquely at the time the siz ...

had been. This model was later also sold in GSM territories as SGH-800 and a

variant sold in the US as SCH-800. It has a five-line display. The SGH-A100 (and SGH-A110) were succeeded by SGH-A200 and SGH-A300. The A200 was originally released as 'Anycall Dual Folder' SCH-A2000/SPH-A2000 in South Korea in March 2000, the first flip phone with external display. Its GSM (900/1800 bands) version SGH-A200 was released in Asian territories in the summer of 2001. Other GSM territories such as Europe got the SGH-A300 model around the same time.

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IF Design Award
{{Samsung phones A100 Mobile phones introduced in 2000

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