Nokia 9210 Communicator

The Nokia 9210 Communicator is a third generation Communicator series smartphone produced by Nokia, introduced in 2000. It greatly improved on the second generation Nokia 9110, providing colour main screen, changing to Symbian OS platform and ARM processor. It is one of the few mobile phones able to send and receive fax.

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 half VGA screen. The speaker is located on the back so one must hold it with the front screen and keypad facing out to make a call.

The American variant is the Nokia 9290.

Specifications

• Main applications: mobile phone, desk application, messaging (SMS, fax, email), Internet (web, WAP), contacts (address book), calendar, office (word processor, spreadsheet, presentation viewer, file manager)
• Extra applications: calculator, clock, games, recorder, and unit converter
• Size: 158×56×27 mm
• Weight: 244 g
• Mobile phone: EGSM 900/1800 and HSCSD (43.2 kbit/s)
• External display: mono
• Internal display: 4096-colour 640×200 LCD screen
• Processor: 32-bit 66 MHz ARM9-based RISC CPU running Symbian OS
• Memory: application 14MB, user 2MB (internal) + 16 MB (MMC card)
• Includes PC Suite for the Nokia 9210 Communicator, running on Windows platform.

Replacement models

Nokia has announced two models that will be replacing Nokia 9210 in first quarter of 2005 [1]:

• Nokia 9300 - is smaller (132×51×21 mm) and lighter (167 g) than Nokia 9210, with about similar features.
• Nokia 9500 - has additional features (Wi-Fi and camera) but about same size (148×57×24 mm) and weight (222 g).

Both new models will include other improvements such as: EDGE, colour 128×128 external display and Bluetooth.