<story><title>Nokia 9000 Communicator was launched 25 years ago</title><url>https://www.dw.com/en/nokias-smartphone-25-years-since-it-changed-the-world/a-58841329</url></story><parent_chain></parent_chain><comment><author>rcarmo</author><text>I used to work as product manager in a major telco and had one of every single model of those, and they were some of the best hardware I ever used.&lt;p&gt;The peak was, I think, when I accessed Excel over Citrix while sitting in the airport waiting for a flight.&lt;p&gt;In comparison, the N900 I have sitting in the bottom of a storage box someplace was a major disappointment--Maemo never came close to delivering half the functionality I had in a 9500, even though the design principles were pretty advanced for that time.&lt;p&gt;(I strongly recommend reading &amp;quot;Operation Elop&amp;quot; for an idea of what that later stage in Nokia&amp;#x27;s life was like, and why Maemo tanked: &lt;a href=&quot;https:&amp;#x2F;&amp;#x2F;asokan.org&amp;#x2F;operation-elop&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;https:&amp;#x2F;&amp;#x2F;asokan.org&amp;#x2F;operation-elop&lt;/a&gt;)&lt;p&gt;But the 9000 series was definitely something I wish we had today in some usable, non-niche form.</text></comment>
<story><title>Nokia 9000 Communicator was launched 25 years ago</title><url>https://www.dw.com/en/nokias-smartphone-25-years-since-it-changed-the-world/a-58841329</url></story><parent_chain></parent_chain><comment><author>neals</author><text>As a kid, this phone was like my dream gadget, I still remember really wanting one and staring at it at the store.&lt;p&gt;To be honest, I don&amp;#x27;t know what I wouldv&amp;#x27;e done with it, being 12 years old.&lt;p&gt;Anybody remember those &amp;quot;organizer&amp;quot; gadgets, with a screen and a calander and notes, but not a phone? I got one of those and didn&amp;#x27;t really use it for anything useful.&lt;p&gt;I did now just order de Fold 3. Comparable.</text></comment>