Nokia Communicator
The Nokia Communicator is a brand name for a series of business-optimized smartphones marketed by Nokia Corporation, all of which appear as normal phones on the outside, and open in clamshell format to access a QWERTY keyboard and an LCD screen nearly the size of the device footprint.
Nokia Communicators have Internet connectivity and clients for Internet and non-Internet communication services. The earlier 9000 series Communicators introduced features which later developed into smartphones. The latest Communicator model, the Nokia E90 Communicator, is part of the Nokia Eseries.
Models
Released | Model | Operating system | Processor | Memory | Screen | Weight |
1996 | Nokia 9000 Communicator, 9000i | PEN/GEOS 3.0 | Intel 80386EX, 24 MHz | RAM: 4 MB ROM: 4 MB | Internal: 640×200 monochrome STN, 4 scales External: 50×38 backlit monochrome STN, 2 scales | |
1998 | Nokia 9110 Communicator, 9110i | PEN/GEOS 3.0 | AMD Elan SC450 486, 33 MHz | RAM: 4 MB ROM: 4 MB | Internal: 640×200 backlit monochrome STN, 8 scales External: 80×48 backlit monochrome STN, 2 scales | |
2001 | Nokia 9210 Communicator, 9210i, 9290 | Symbian OS version 6.0, Series 80 v1.0 | ARM920T, 52 MHz | RAM: 8 MB ROM: 16 MB | Internal: 640×200 color transflective TFT, 4,096 scales External: 84×48 backlit monochrome STN, 2 scales | |
2004 | Nokia 9500 Communicator | Symbian OS version 7.0s, Series 80 v2.0 | Texas Instruments OMAP 1510, 150 MHz | RAM: 64 MB ROM: 128 MB | Internal: 640×200 color transflective TFT, 65,536 scales External: 128×128 color transflective TFT, 65,536 scales | |
2007 | Nokia E90 Communicator | Symbian OS version 9.2, S60 3rd Edition | Texas Instruments OMAP 2420, 332 MHz | RAM: 128 MB ROM: 256 MB | Internal: 800×352 color transflective TFT, 16,777,216 scales External: 240×320 color transflective TFT, 16,777,216 scales |
The Nokia 9300 and 9300i are very similar to the Nokia 9500 but were not marketed under the Communicator name by Nokia. Likewise, the Nokia N97 and Nokia E7 from 2009 and 2011 respectively are also similar to the Communicator series, but not marketed as it.
Movies
- The first Nokia smartphone in the movies was Nokia Communicator 9000: Val Kilmer as The Saint used the device to foil the plans of a villainous Russian oligarch back in 1997.
- In the Terminatrix, played by Kristanna Loken, hijacks a silver Lexus SC 430 and uses a Nokia 9210 inside the car to dial-up a remote link to a local phone systems server.
- In Bad Company the special phone used by Chris Rock is the Nokia 9210.
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