October – Nokia S40 Platform is formally launched along with the Nokia 7110, the primary phone with T9 Predictive text input and a Wireless Application Protocol browser for accessing specially formatted Internet knowledge. 1999June – Qualcomm’s pdQ becomes the primary smartphone with Palm OS. August – Nokia releases the Nokia 9000 Communicator running an integrated system primarily based on the PEN/GEOS three.0 OS from Geoworks.