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Nokia Selected Innovations ‘97 Winner at Winter CES
January 09, 1997
-- Both Nokia 9000 Communicator and Nokia 2160 selected for prestigious award --
Nokia, the world’s second largest manufacturer of cellular and wireless phones, today announced the selection of their Nokia 9000 Communicator and the Nokia 2160 handset as Innovations ‘97 award winners at the 1997 International Consumer Electronics Show in Las Vegas.
The revolutionary Nokia 9000 combines digital voice, data and personal organizer functions into a single, small-sized and easy-to-use unit. In addition to voice calls, the Nokia 9000 enables users to send and receive faxes, e-mail and short messages as well as access Internet services and corporate and public databases. The product also provides users with organization functions such as electronic calendar, address book, notepad and calculator.
The Nokia 2160 was the first available dual mode AMPS/TDMA phone designed to work on the new IS-136 TDMA digital cellular network. The phone, which is available in a fashionable array of artistic designs, features Nokia’s big-screen 30-character super-twist LCD display, is data-ready via an optional cable, and is designed to support all of the most advanced IS-136 TDMA digital features available today, including authentication, call forwarding, calling line identification, call waiting, selective call acceptance, short message service and voice privacy.
Each year, members of the trade press, engineers and industrial designers evaluate the best ideas in electronic hardware and software consumer design and engineering that are submitted by manufacturers of consumer electronic products marketed in the United States. The Design and Engineering Honors Program recognizes eight broad categories of hardware, including accessible products, audio/video, electronic gaming, lifestyle electronics, mobile and portable electronics, multimedia, small office/home office and vehicle electronics.
The most innovative new software products for business applications, education, electronics gaming, multimedia and production and presentation are honored in the Innovations Software Showcase. Only exhibitors at Consumer Electronics Shows (CES) are eligible to participate in this prestigious recognition program. The winning design is showcased in the special Innovations display at the Winter CES.
Innovations is the most recognized awards program in the consumer electronics industry, endorsed by the Industrial Designers Society of America and sponsored and produced by the Consumer Electronics Manufacturers Association (CEMA), a sector of the Electronic Industries Association (EIA).
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