The Nokia 9210 Communicator is the third-generation Communicator series

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, announced on 21 November 2000 and released in June 2001. It greatly improved on the second-generation Nokia 9110 Communicator, providing a colour main screen and using an ARM processor. It is one of the few mobile phones able to send and receive fax. It was the first device to run on the Symbian OS platform, version 6, succeeding version 5 of EPOC. It also introduced Nokia's Series 80 interface, which was the result of Symbian Ltd.'s 'Crystal' design. 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. The earpiece and microphone are located on the back so one must hold it with the front screen and keypad facing out to make a call. The phone also has speakerphone functionality. The 9210 Communicator's success helped Nokia overtake both Palm and

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to become the leading 'mobile data device' vendor in Western Europe in the third quarter of 2001, when it had a 28.3 percent share in the market.

Specifications

* Main applications: mobile phone, desk application, messaging ( SMS, fax,

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), Internet (web, WAP), contacts (address book), calendar, office (word processor, spreadsheet, presentation viewer, file manager) * Extra applications: calculator, clock, games, recorder, and unit converter. In addition, 3rd party software developers could freely implement new applications for the Nokia 9210 Communicator and offer them for download by the users. * Processor: 32-bit 66 MHz ARM9-based

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CPU * Total memory: 24 MB ** Application memory: 14 MB ** User memory: 2 MB ** Execution memory: 8 MB (SD-RAM) ** 16 MB Multi Media Card in the sales package * Operating frequency: GSM-900/1800 networks in Europe, Africa, Asia * Radio: foldout antenna for improved reception. * Operating system: Symbian OS v6.0, Series 80 v1.0 * Interface: IrDA but no

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cable for PC. * Audio: Stereo- headset, mp3-player software is optional, additional internal speaker for music and full-duplex speakerphone functionality. * Includes PC Suite for the Nokia 9210 Communicator, running on

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platform. * Vibrating alert: not implemented.

9210i

The 9210i launched in 2002 increased the internal memory to 40 MB and adds the

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for video streaming. The

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now supports Flash 5 and HTML 4.01 instead of HTML 3.2 on the 9210. The main screen backlight was also changed from high voltage CCFL tube light to white LED backlight, which was quite new technology at the time. * Total memory: 40 MB ** Application memory: 16 MB ** User memory: 16 MB ** Execution memory: 8 MB (SD-RAM) ** 64 MB Multi Media Card in the sales package

Replacement models

replaced the 9210 in first quarter of 2005 with: * Nokia 9500 – has additional features (

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and

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) but is smaller ) and lighter (222 g), and has an updated Symbian Series 80 operating system. * Nokia 9300 – is smaller () and lighter (167 g) than Nokia 9210, with similar features and the same operating system as the Nokia 9500. Both new models include other improvements such as: EDGE, colour external displays and

Accessories

* Camera * Hands free car kit

Nokia 9290

The American variant of the 9210i is the Nokia 9290 supporting GSM-1900, first introduced on 5 June 2001 and eventually, after a year-long delay, released on the continent in June 2002.

In popular culture

In the music video for "

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featuring Kelly Rowland, the Nokia 9210 phone can be observed being utilized by Kelly Rowland. However, to the amusement of more technically savvy viewers, the plot of the music video shows the singer typing the alleged message in a spreadsheet application instead of an actual messaging app, which has led to jokes and memes about this video to circulate internet even years after the release of the video. Another instance of the Nokia 9210 appearing in movies was in the 2003 film '' Terminator 3: Rise of the Machines'', where the antagonist character T-X, played by Kristanna Loken, can be seen using the phone as a dial-up modem at the beginning of the movie.

References

Nokia 9210 info site
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