Although the concept of the smart phone pretends to be cutting-edge, it was really created by Nokia back in the early nineties with the 9000 series. It was dubbed the Communicator and by combining telephony, e-mail, internet and PDA functions in one item it lived up to its name. Despite the miraculous convergence, however, it was not without its flaws. For a start, mobile data was only available in GSM flavour and its paltry 9,600kbit/sec rate meant an eternity waiting for anything internet-related. Secondly, it was enormous. I mean really enormous; 9000 owners didn't need to fear being mugged since they could beat off any assailants with their phone.



Link: The Gadgeteer