Fashion Nokia 9000 in 1996

There are several categories of mobile phones, from basic phones to feature phones such as musicphones and cameraphones, to smartphones. The first smartphone was the Nokia 9000 Communicator in 1996 which incorporated PDA functionality to the basic mobile phone at the time. As miniaturisation and increased processing power of microchips has enabled ever more features to be added to phones, the concept of the smartphone has evolved, and what was a high-end smartphone five years ago, is a standard phone today. Several phone series have been introduced to address a given market segment, such as the RIM BlackBerry focusing on enterprise/corporate customer email needs; the SonyEricsson Walkman series of musicphones and Cybershot series of cameraphones; the Nokia N-Series of multimedia phones; and the Apple iPhone which provides full-featured web access and multimedia capabilities.

The Nokia 9000 Communicator was the first in Nokia’s Communicator series, introduced in 1996. The phone was huge and heavy (397g) in comparison with its modern equivaent the Nokia E90. The Communicator part is driven by an Intel 24 MHz 386(Central pro2008). It has 8 MB of memory, which is divided between applications (4 MB), program memory (2MB) and user data (2MB). The operating system is GEOS 3.0. The Nokia 9000 Communication was used by Val Kilmer when he played Simon Templar in the 1997 remark of The Saint.

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