The Nokia Communicator is a brand name for a series of business-optimized
smartphone
A smartphone is a portable computer device that combines mobile telephone and computing functions into one unit. They are distinguished from feature phones by their stronger hardware capabilities and extensive mobile operating systems, whic ...
s marketed by
Nokia Corporation, all of which appear as normal (if large) 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
The Nokia Eseries consists of business-oriented smartphones running Symbian OS, with emphasis on enhanced connectivity and support for corporate e-mail push services, as well as enterprise-styled products and many featuring QWERTY keyboards. All ...
.
Models
The
Nokia 9300
The Nokia 9300 is a Nokia Series 80 Symbian Smartphone introduced in 2004. It is used as a normal though bulky mobile phone in closed mode, when it is flipped open it can be used like a very small notebook computer with a 640×200 screen. The ...
and
9300i (running
Symbian OS
Symbian is a discontinued mobile operating system (OS) and computing platform designed for smartphones. It was originally developed as a proprietary software OS for personal digital assistants in 1998 by the Symbian Ltd. consortium. 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.
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
Russian oligarchs ( Russian: олигархи, romanized: ''oligarkhi'') are business oligarchs of the former Soviet republics who rapidly accumulated wealth in the 1990s via the Russian privatisation that followed the dissolution of the Sovi ...
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
Bad Company are an English rock supergroup that was formed in 1973 by singer Paul Rodgers, guitarist Mick Ralphs, drummer Simon Kirke and bassist Boz Burrell. Bad Company ''AllMusic'' Peter Grant, who managed the rock band Led Zeppelin, a ...
'' (2002) the special phone used by Chris Rock is the Nokia 9210.
Gallery
File:Nokia-9110-9000.jpg, Nokia 9000 Communicator (right)
Nokia 9110 Communicator (left)
File:Nokia-9110-2.jpg, Nokia 9110 Communicator
File:Nokia 9210.jpg, Nokia 9210 Communicator
File:Julie_Carroll_Moblogging.jpg, Nokia 9500 Communicator
File:Nokia-e90.png, Nokia E90 Communicator
Nokia-9210i-9500-e90.jpg, Nokia 9210i, 9500 and E90 Communicators
See also
* "
Communicator" (Star Trek)
*
List of Nokia products
The following is a list of products branded by Nokia.
Current products and services
Products by Nokia Technologies Wi-Fi routers
* Nokia WiFi Beacon 1
* Nokia WiFi Beacon 3
Digital audio
* Nokia OZO Audio
Smart TVs
Nokia markets smart TVs th ...
*
Nokia PC Suite
Nokia PC Suite is a discontinued software package used to establish an interface between Nokia mobile devices and computers that run the Microsoft Windows operating system. Its first release was in 1997, originally called Nokia Data Suite. I ...
*
OpenSync
*
Series 80 (software platform)
Nokia's Series 80 (formerly ''Crystal'') was a short-lived mobile software platform for their enterprise and professional level smartphones, introduced in 2000. It uses the Symbian OS. Common physical properties of this Symbian OS user interface ...
*
Asus M930w and
Toshiba G910
, commonly known as Toshiba and stylized as TOSHIBA, is a Japanese multinational conglomerate corporation headquartered in Minato, Tokyo, Japan. Its diversified products and services include power, industrial and social infrastructure systems, ...
/
G920, adopted Nokia's design
*
Cosmo Communicator
Cosmo may refer to:
Business and media
* ''Cosmopolitan'' (magazine), a magazine for women, sometimes referred to as "Cosmo"
* '' Cosmo's Cosmic Adventure'', a 1992 video game
* Cosmo On-Line, a Brazilian generic Internet portal
* Cosmo Radio ...
, adopted Nokia's design and name
References
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Communicator
Smartphones