This was priced at just $199 for the 8GM model. The Nokia 9000 Communicator was released in 1996 for £1,000 and was one of the most complex phones at the time. HTC Universal: £108.41 The ...

The IBM Simon Personal Communicator, released in 1994, was considered the first smartphone, combining mobile phone and PDA functions, laying the groundwork for future smartphone innovations. The Nokia ...

Rather than give away the whole story, read on and discover some of the firsts in the world of cellular phones. The Nokia 9000 Communicator was an oddity in the early days of the cell phone ...

The pioneering efforts in the realm of touch-screen smartphones can be traced back to the IBM Simon (1993) and the Nokia 9000 Communicator (1996). Though visionary, these devices lacked the ...

6. Nokia Communicator 9000 – world’s first Qwerty keyboard When it was released in 1996, the Nokia Communicator 9000 was a product clearly aimed at the ultra-high-end of the market. But behind this ...

Shaped like a regular cellular phone, the Nokia 9000 Communicator opens to expose an interactive digital world of voice, data, fax, e-mail, computer, on-line and organizer features to appease the ...

Let’s role-play for a second, you are making a business deal, it is 1996 and you’ve been through a few updates to your work mobile to arrive at the email-capable Nokia 9000 Communicator.

Get ready to get sentimental. The first in Nokia’s Communicator series, the Nokia 9000 was considered a mobile powerhouse for its time. Packing a 24MHz Intel processor, 8MB of memory and a grayscale ...

Nokia made a great comeback in 2016 with its ... due to an appearance in the hands of Keanu Reeves in The Matrix. The 9000 Communicator was a messaging phone and the first phone under the ...

We’ve been accessing the internet via our mobiles since 1996, when the Nokia 9000 Communicator hit the market and was regarded as the world’s first ever internet-enabled smartphone.