Nokia 9000 Communicator

The Nokia 9110 on the left and 9000 on the right.
Nokia 9000 Communicator beside the latest "successor" Nokia E7.

The Nokia 9000 Communicator was the first product in Nokia's Communicator series, introduced in 1996. The phone was large and heavy (397 g) in comparison with its later equivalent the Nokia E90 (210 g). The Communicator part is driven by an Intel 24 MHz i386 CPU.[1] It has 8 MB of memory, which is divided between applications (4 MB), program memory (2 MB) and user data (2 MB). The operating system is GEOS 3.0.

9110

The Nokia 9210 on the left and 9110 on the right.
Nokia 9110 open.
Inside of Nokia 9110.

The Nokia 9110 Communicator is the updated model of the Nokia 9000 Communicator in the Communicator series. Its biggest change from the 9000 is that it weighs much less.

Specifications

9210/9210i

The product line was continued in 2000 by the introduction of Nokia 9210 Communicator which introduced a wide TFT colour internal screen, 32-bit ARM9-based RISC CPU at 52 MHz, 16 MB of internal memory, enhanced web abilities and most importantly saw the operating system change to the Symbian operating system. The 9210i launched in 2002 increased the internal memory to 40 MB, video streaming and flash 5 support for the web browser.

The 9xxx Communicators introduced features which later evolved into smartphones.

In popular culture

The Nokia 9000 is used by Val Kilmer when he played Simon Templar in the 1997 remake of The Saint,[4] and by Anthony Hopkins and Chris Rock in the action comedy Bad Company.

The phone is also mentioned in Bret Easton Ellis' book Glamorama.

References

  1. ↑ Nokia press release
  2. ↑ A photograph of the insides of the case, with the CPU, can be seen in the last picture on the right side of this page.
  3. ↑ Data sheet of the processor
  4. ↑ Nokia 9000 Communicator makes a visible appearance in "THE SAINT"

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