Nokia 9500: An office in a phone

by Doug Berger on Oct 31, 2005 at 01:29 AM

I’m going to first start out by saying how sweet the design for this phone is. The phone looks like a classic Nokia phone until you open it. It then looks like a laptop/two-way pager with a 640- by 200-pixel color screen. Pretty sweet idea.

The phone comes with quite a bit bundled software including Microsoft Office (word processing, spreadsheet, and presentation applications), an Adobe Acrobat viewer, RealPlayer, the Opera browser, an MP3 player, a voice recorder, and PIM applications. It’s also pretty well equiped with wireless networks with Bluetooth, EDGE, and Wi-Fi on board.

While the phone sounds pretty sweet, PCMag.com was not impressed at all. They rated it 2.5 out of 5 stars and had the following to say: “The most apt analogy for the Nokia 9500 Communicator is a luxury SUV with a four-cylinder engineâ€”big, comfortable, slow, and expensive… To justify the 9500’s size and $799 price tag, it should really be a powerhouse of a phone, and it simply isn’t.”

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