What was the first ever smartphone? Ask most people and they’ll understandably say the original Apple iPhone, which launched in 2007. But if the definition is a practical device that can send emails and browse the web as well as make calls and send text messages, then there’s a strong case for the Nokia 9000 Communicator — which launched 30 years ago today on August 15, 1996.
The first Communicator looked like a chunky 1990s mobile phone, but open it up, and there was a keyboard and grayscale LCD screen inside. You could get some actual work done on the go with this phone, as the ads of the time...
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