The Nokia Communicator is a brand name for a series of business-optimized smartphone

Smartphone

A smartphone is a high-end mobile phone built on a mobile computing platform, with more advanced computing ability and connectivity than a contemporary feature phone. The first smartphones were devices that mainly combined the functions of a personal digital assistant and a mobile phone or camera...

s marketed by Nokia Corporation

Nokia

Nokia Corporation is a Finnish multinational communications corporation that is headquartered in Keilaniemi, Espoo, a city neighbouring Finland's capital Helsinki...

, all of which appear as normal (if large) phones on the outside, and open in clamshell format to access a 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 earlier 9000 series Communicators introduced features which later evolved into smartphones. The latest two Communicators are part of the Nokia Eseries

Nokia Eseries

The Nokia Eseries consists of business-oriented smartphones, with emphasis on enhanced connectivity and support for corporate e-mail push services. All devices have advanced office features...

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Members of the series are:

Released	Model	Operating system	Processor	Memory	Screen	Weight
1996	Nokia 9000 Communicator	GEOS GEOS (16-bit operating system) GEOS is a computer operating environment, graphical user interface, and suite of application software. Originally released as PC/GEOS, it runs on DOS-based, IBM PC compatible computers. The package later became GeoWorks Ensemble, then NewDeal Office, and is now Breadbox Ensemble...  V3.0	Intel Intel Corporation Intel Corporation is an American multinational semiconductor chip maker corporation headquartered in Santa Clara, California, United States and the world's largest semiconductor chip maker, based on revenue. It is the inventor of the x86 series of microprocessors, the processors found in most...  80386EX Intel 80386EX The Intel 80386EX is a variant of the Intel 386 microprocessor designed for embedded systems. Introduced in August 1994 and was successful in the market being used aboard several orbiting satellites and microsatellites.... , 24 MHz	RAM Random-access memory Random access memory is a form of computer data storage. Today, it takes the form of integrated circuits that allow stored data to be accessed in any order with a worst case performance of constant time. Strictly speaking, modern types of DRAM are therefore not random access, as data is read in... : 4 MB Mebibyte The mebibyte is a multiple of the unit byte for digital information. The binary prefix mebi means 220, therefore 1 mebibyte is . The unit symbol for the mebibyte is MiB. The unit was established by the International Electrotechnical Commission in 2000 and has been accepted for use by all major...  ( B) ROM Read-only memory Read-only memory is a class of storage medium used in computers and other electronic devices. Data stored in ROM cannot be modified, or can be modified only slowly or with difficulty, so it is mainly used to distribute firmware .In its strictest sense, ROM refers only... : 4 MB (2 MB accessible)	Internal: 4.5 in (11.4 cm) 640×200 monochrome STN Super-twisted nematic display A super-twisted nematic display is a type of monochrome passive matrix liquid crystal display . STN displays provide more contrast than twisted nematic displays by twisting the molecules from 180 to 270 degrees... , 4 scales External: 50×38 backlit monochrome STN, 2 scales	397 g (14 oz)
1998	Nokia 9110 Communicator	GEOS V3.0	AMD Elan SC450 Advanced Micro Devices Advanced Micro Devices, Inc. or AMD is an American multinational semiconductor company based in Sunnyvale, California, that develops computer processors and related technologies for commercial and consumer markets...  486, 33 MHz	RAM: 4 MB ROM: 4 MB (2 MB accessible)	Internal: 4.5 inches (11.4 cm) 640×200 backlit monochrome STN, 8 scales External: 1.3 in (3.3 cm) 80×48 backlit monochrome STN, 2 scales	253 g (8.9 oz)
2001	Nokia 9210 Communicator	Symbian OS version 6.0	ARM920T, 52 MHz	RAM: 8 MB ROM: 16 MB (2 MB accessible)	Internal: 4.5 in (11.4 cm) 640×200 color transflective TFT TFT LCD Thin film transistor liquid crystal display is a variant of liquid crystal display which uses thin-film transistor technology to improve image quality . TFT LCD is one type of Active matrix LCD, though all LCD-screens are based on TFT active matrix addressing... , 4,096 scales External: 1.3 in (3.3 cm) 84×48 backlit monochrome STN, 2 scales	244 g (8.6 oz)
2004	Nokia 9500 Communicator	Symbian OS version 7.0s	Texas Instruments Texas Instruments Texas Instruments Inc. , widely known as TI, is an American company based in Dallas, Texas, United States, which develops and commercializes semiconductor and computer technology...  OMAP 1510, 150 MHz	RAM: 64 MB (39.6 MB accessible) ROM: 128 MB (79.8 MB accessible)	Internal: 4.5 in (11.4 cm) 640×200 color transflective TFT, 65,536 scales External: 1.5 in (3.8 cm) 128×128 color transflective TFT, 65,536 scales	222 g (7.8 oz)
2007	Nokia E90 Communicator Nokia E90 Communicator Nokia E90 Communicator is a 3G smartphone made by Nokia and the latest model of the Communicator series. It was announced in February 2007 at the 3GSM show in Barcelona....	Symbian OS version 9.2	Texas Instruments Texas Instruments Texas Instruments Inc. , widely known as TI, is an American company based in Dallas, Texas, United States, which develops and commercializes semiconductor and computer technology...  OMAP 2420, 332 MHz	RAM: 128 MB (110 MB accessible) ROM: 256 MB (136 MB accessible)	Internal: 3.9 in (9.9 cm) 800×352 color transflective TFT, 16,777,216 scales External: 2 in (5.1 cm) 240×320 color transflective TFT, 16,777,216 scales	210 g (7.4 oz)

The Nokia 9300

Nokia 9300

The Nokia 9300 is a Nokia Series 80 Symbian Smartphone introduced in 2005. It is used as a normal though bulky mobile phone in closed mode, when it is flipped open it can be used like a very small notebook computer with a 640×200 screen...

 and 9300i (running Symbian OS version 7.0s) are very similar to the Nokia 9500 but were not marketed under the Communicator name by Nokia.

Movies

• 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
  Bad Company (2002 film)
  Bad Company is a 2002 action-comedy film directed by Joel Schumacher, produced by Jerry Bruckheimer and starring Anthony Hopkins and Chris Rock.-Plot:...
  
  (2002) the special phone used by Chris Rock is the Nokia 9210.