Do you remember the first Samsung Android phone? The Galaxy i7500 just turned 15 this month

The month of April marks an important anniversary for Samsung, coming true 15 years since the debut of the first Android phone in the portfolio. It was called the Samsung i7500 Galaxy and it became official in April 2009, and in stores those wishing to find it started in June. It came just 6 months away from the first Android in the world, the HTC G1, and in the lines below we remember what new features the i7500 model had for those times.

First of all it had a screen OLED and a large battery for its slide format, very popular at the time. It boasted a 3.2-inch capacitive touch panel, had a Qualcomm MSM7200A single-core 528MHz ARM 11 processor and used an Adreno 130 GPU, plus 8GB of storage and 128MB of RAM. It also had a microSDHC slot.

I received a 5 mpx camera with autofocus and LED flash on the back, WiFi b/g, microUSB v2.0 port and a 1500 mAh battery that “resist” up to 9h 20m in 2G calls. There was no lack of the 3.5 mm audio jack, and as an OS it used Android 1.5 Cupcake, at the time when Google used to use dessert names for Android releases.

Something special about the Samsung i7500 Galaxy was that it ran stock Android, before TouchWIZ was implemented on touchscreen phones. Just a year away came the legendary phone called the i9000 Galaxy S, the first S in the company’s portfolio that took Samsung to new heights. It had novelties such as a 4-inch Super AMOLED screen, Gorilla Glass protection, a 1GHz processor and could film HD, also inaugurating TouchWiz 3.0.

The i7500 remains Samsung’s starting point in the Android world, a trailblazing phone that got Samsung to where it is today.