The Samsung SGH-T100 is a dual-band

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manufactured by

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in 2002. It was the first mobile phone to use a thin-film transistor

active matrix Active matrix is a type of addressing scheme used in flat panel displays. In this method of switching individual elements (pixels), each pixel is attached to a transistor and capacitor ''actively'' maintaining the pixel state while other pixels ar ...

LCD display; prior to the release of the SGH-T100 all phones had used

passive matrix Passive matrix addressing is an addressing scheme used in early LCDs. This is a matrix addressing scheme meaning that only ''m'' + ''n'' control signals are required to address an ''m'' × ''n'' display. A pixel in a passi ...

display technology. By 2003, it sold over 10million units worldwide.

References

T100 Mobile phones introduced in 2001 {{Samsung-mobile-stub