Kill Two Birds with One Phone

Though it has identical data functionality to the Nokia 2110 digital cellular phone, Nokia's Communicator 9000 is a new hybrid of data and communications. Its two-in-one design includes an innovative pocket-size personal organizer encased in the shell of a cellular phone. Weighing just a little over 2 pounds, the Communicator comes with the GEOS 3.0 operating system, which acts as a virtual processor. It also ships with 2 MB of flash memory, plus 2 MB of additional RAM. The Communicator's standard applications include a scheduler, contact directory, diary, address book, and file transfer option, which dispatches information from the Com municator to a PC using either infrared or serial connections. The unit's portable access terminal al lows for Internet connections with Web, Telnet, and VT100 terminal emulation. Features of the personal organizer include an address book, calendar, note-editor, to-do list, calculator, and world clock. Available in the U.S. this fall, the 1900-MHz Communicator will work on GSM 1900 PCS networks (such as PacBell, Aerial, and VoiceStream) and will sell for around $1000.

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Rich Hybridization

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