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30 Years of the Nokia 9000 Communicator - Yes, there was a smartphone in 1996
13. 03. 2026 Friday / By: Robert Denes / Generic / Exact time: BST / Print this page
H appy Birthday...In 1996, when the world was still tied to desktop computers and pagers, the Nokia 9000 Communicator arrived from the future. It wasn't just a phone; it was the first true "office in your pocket".
Long before the iPhone or BlackBerry were known, Nokia merged the mobile phone with the PDA, giving us a glimpse into the hyper-connected world we live in today. The Nokia 9000 Communicator mobile device was the first product in the Nokia Communicator series, announced at CeBIT in 1996 and released five months later, on August 15, 1996.
The front panel was based on a Nokia 2110 mobile phone, on which a hinge held a mini computer with a QWERTY keyboard and a 24 MHz Intel 386 processor. The memory was 8 MB in total, but this was divided into three parts, 4 MB was divided into applications, 2 MB was allocated to software, and another 2 MB was allocated to user data. The larger, internal LCD display displayed content at 640×200 pixels, and the operating system was PEN/GEOS 3.0, developed by the Geoworks system and based on DOS. The Nokia 9000 Communicator was quite capable in its rudimentary way, it could write e-mails, had a built-in text web browser, calendar, calculator, and even could receive faxes, albeit very slowly. The CSD connection using the GSM network allowed for 9600 bits per second (9.6 kbit/s), which meant that it took roughly 40 seconds for a page to arrive. Browsing was similarly choppy.
The Communicator, a digital GSM mobile phone, was one of the earliest smartphones on the market,[5] following the IBM Simon of 1994 and the HP OmniGo 700LX, a DOS-based palmtop PC with a built-in home screen for the Nokia 2110 mobile phone, announced in late 1995 and shipped on August 15, 1996.
The Communicator was highly advanced for its time, allowing email and faxes to be sent and received via its CSD (Circuit Switched Data) modem, transmitting data over the GSM network at a bitrate of 9.6 kbit/s, printing documents via its IrDA port, and including a web browser and business applications. It consists of a clamshell design that opens to reveal a monochrome LCD with a resolution of 640 × 200, a full QWERTY keyboard similar to the Psion PDA, and weighs 397 grams (14.0 oz). It was priced at £1,000 in the UK at launch (equivalent to £2,400 in 2023).
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