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General Communicator FAQ

Questions What is a Communicator? What Communicators are currently available? How much do they (will they) cost? Where can I get the Emulator? IS OPL available on Symbian Communicators? Will a Series 7 (larger screen size) device become available? Is the Data application in the Communicator?

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What is a Communicator? A Communicator is one of the device types of Symbian. Symbian has three device types. Communicators, Mediaphone (communicators) and Smartphones. Symbian defines Communicators as being information-centric with built in phone It has keyboard operation, 640x200 screen, with soft keys, graphical user interface evolved from previous keyboard communicators and a rich, integrated, application suite. It is an open platform. [Back to top] What Communicators are currently available? Currently the Nokia 9210 is the only Communicator available. It is intended for use on the European and Asian networks. The Nokia 9290 for ther Americas is due out in the first half of 2002. [Back to top] How much do they (will they) cost? This is very difficult to answer (especially for future phones). However as an estimate they may be between �300-�800, depending on what you get (e.g. with a phone contact the cost is likely to be less). Prices will drop, as with all things, over time. As a guide a sim free 9210 costs around �800 and to start with the contract price was �500. However this is likely to drop over time and special deals are appearing (and vanishing) all the time! [Back to top] Where can I get the Emulator? It will be available of the SymbianDevNet site. However currently the only source is the Nokia Developers site (see links page), where you can get a CD sent to you. [Back to top] IS OPL available on Symbian Communicators? Yes it is. However the program does not run on the Nokia Beta Emulator. Additionally there is no guarantee that OPL will be included in any given Crystal product. The run time (allowing an OPL program to run) will be present on all machine. Current OPL programs are incompatiable with ER6 and may require major or minor changing depending on how they are written. For example the Nokia 9210 did not have OPL on release but Symbian have made an alpha plug in available for download from their site. They say interest in this will determine whether OPL development is continued. [Back to top] Will a Series 7 (larger screen size) device become available? There is no absolute answer to this. However it has been suggested (ina Register Article) that it would be possible and will be developed at some stage. This will most likely come as a replacement to the netbook and will therefore be produced by Psion. There is no indication of timescale. [Back to top] Is the Data application in the Communicator? The Data application does not appear to be available. However Symbian could make it available as a download from their site. [Back to top]