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 modern equivalent the Nokia E90. The Communicator part is driven by an AMD 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.

In popular culture

The Nokia 9000 Communicator was used by Val Kilmer when he played Simon Templar in the 1997 remake of The Saint.^[2]

The Nokia 9000 also is mentioned in Bret Easton Ellis book Glamorama, page 282 where one of the characters in the book has this model Nokia in her bag.

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

• Operating system: GEOS (running on top of ROM-DOS) on the PDA side
• Main applications: Fax, short messages, email, Wireless imaging: digital camera connectivity, Smart messaging, TextWeb, Web terminal, Contacts, Notes, Calendar, Calculator; world time clock, Composer.
• Size: 158 × 56 × 27 mm
• Weight: 253 g
• Processor: Embedded AMD Elan SC450 486 processor at 33 MHz^[3][4]
• Memory: 8 MB total, 4 MB Operating System and applications, 2 MB program execution, 2 MB user data storage, MMC card.

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, 16mb internal memory, enhanced web abilities and most importantly saw the operating system change to the ever increasing Symbian Operating system. The 9210i launched in 2002 increased the internal memory to 40MB, video streaming and flash 5 support for the web browser.

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

References

1. ^ Nokia press release
2. ^ Nokia 9000 Communicator makes a visible appearance in "THE SAINT"
3. ^ 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.
4. ^ Data sheet of the processor

External links

• Retro-Review: Nokia 9110 Communicator English: ' Retro-Phones (31/07/2011)
• (Finnish) More info
• Gsm arena Nokia 9110 section Includes specifications and reviews