The Nokia Communicator is a series of business-optimized smartphones marketed by Nokia Corporation, featuring a laptop-like form factor, which opens in a clamshell format to access its 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 series introduced features that would become staples in modern smartphones. The final Communicator model, the Nokia E90, is part of the Nokia Eseries. The Nokia E75 (2009) and Nokia E7 (2010), were considered spiritual successors to the Communicator series.
Models
The Nokia 9300 and 9300i (running 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.
In popular culture 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 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 (2002) the special phone used by Chris Rock is the Nokia 9210. In Dilemma (Nelly song) music video, singer Kelly Rowland attempts to send a text to her love interest Nelly using Microsoft Excel spreadsheet on a Nokia 9210. The absurdity of this led to online mockery.
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See also "Communicator" (Star Trek) Nokia Eseries Nokia PC Suite OpenSync Series 80 (software platform) Asus M930w and Toshiba G910 / G920, adopted Nokia's design Cosmo Communicator, adopted Nokia's design and name List of Nokia products
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