The Nokia Communicator is a series of business-optimized smartphones marketed by Nokia Corporation, featuring a laptop-like form factor, which opens in a clamshell format to access its 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 series introduced features that would become staples in modern smartphones. The final Communicator model, the Nokia E90, is part of the Nokia Eseries. The Nokia E75 (2009) and Nokia E7 (2010), were considered spiritual successors to the Communicator series.
Models
Model Nokia 9000 Communicator,9000i Nokia 9110 Communicator,9110i Nokia 9210 Communicator,9210i, 9290 Nokia 9300 Communicator,9300i, 9500 Nokia E90 Communicator Released 1996 1998 2001 2004 2007 Operating system PEN/GEOS 3.0 Symbian OS version 6.0,Series 80 v1.0 Symbian OS version 7.0s,Series 80 v2.0Symbian OS version 9.2,S60 3rd Edition Processor Model Intel 80386BXNokia, Service Manual, RAE/RAK-1 Series Cellular Phone/Personal Digital Assistant - identifies the 9000 Communicator's CPU as Intel 80386BX on pages 250 and 319, and lists the number of grayscales for its 640x200 screen as 8 on page 146. Archived from the original on 1 Oct 2019. AMD Élan SC450 Am486 ARM920T Ti OMAP 1510Ti OMAP 2420 clock speed 24 MHz 33 MHz 52 MHz 150 MHz332 MHz Memory RAM(accessible) 4 MB ( bytes) 4 MB 8 MB 64 MB(39.6 MB)128 MB(110 MB) ROM(accessible) 4 MB(2 MB) 4 MB(2 MB) 16 MB(2 MB) 128 MB(79.8 MB)256 MB(136 MB) Screen Internal 640×200monochrome STN,8 grayscales 640×200backlit monochrome STN,8 grayscales 640×200color transflective TFT,4,096 scales 640×200color transflective TFT,4,096 scales 800×352color transflective TFT,16,777,216 scales External 50×38backlit monochrome STN,2 grayscales 80×48backlit monochrome STN,2 grayscales 84×48backlit monochrome STN,2 grayscales 84×48backlit monochrome STN,2 grayscales240×320color transflective TFT,16,777,216 scales Weight
The Nokia 9300 and 9300i (running Symbian OS version 7.0s and Series 80 v2.0) are very similar to the Nokia 9500 but were not marketed under the Communicator name by Nokia. Likewise, the Nokia N97 and Nokia E7 (running Symbian^3) from 2009 and 2011 respectively are also similar to the Communicator series, but not marketed as it.
In popular culture 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 Terminator 3: Rise of the Machines the Terminatrix (T-X), 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 (2002) the special phone used by Chris Rock is the Nokia 9210. In Dilemma (Nelly song) music video, singer Kelly Rowland attempts to send a text to her love interest Nelly using Microsoft Excel spreadsheet on a Nokia 9210. The absurdity of this led to online mockery.
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See also "Communicator" (Star Trek) Nokia Eseries Nokia PC Suite OpenSync Series 80 (software platform) Asus M930w and Toshiba G910 / G920, adopted Nokia's design Cosmo Communicator, adopted Nokia's design and name List of Nokia products
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