Thread: Why do (did) you admire Nokia ?
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Originally Posted by switch-hitter View Post
I don't know if it was the first Symbian phone ever released but the NOKIA Communicator 9210 was a Symbian device and was released in 2000.
Nokia released Smartphones even before: They used PEN/GEOS as theyr operating system as of 1996. You might argue what defined a smartphone back than, but those models hat a web browser and (other than the first iPhone) could run third party software. That was probably very close to the "full computer in your pocket" vision that defines the term smartphone for me.

(plus, it had a hardware keyboard...)