Mitsubishi
Trium Mondo

The Trium Mondo was a pioneer in the convergence of mobile phones and Personal Digital Assistants (PDAs). Trium, a subsidiary of Mitsubishi Electric, unveiled the Mondo at the Centre Georges Pompidou, Paris in January 2000. At the time it was considered to be a very futuristic design. It was designed by PSD in collaboration with Mitsubishi’s Paris in-house team. The device is considered to be the first wireless Microsoft Windows Powered Pocket PC 2000 device, although the Sagem WA3050, a similar device, was released in the same year. The Mondo had a large 3.9-inch monochrome LCD touchscreen that could be operated with the built-in stylus or with a fingernail. The Mondo had five physical buttons below the screen providing shortcuts to key functions including the phone, messages, calendar and contacts applications. The unit in the Mobile Phone Museum collection is an early pre-production prototype. When it was launched in the UK it cost £495 (approx. US$795).