After the press conference there was a Q&A session. One of the questions asked was "Did you run out of numbers? Wasn’t there already a 6110?"
I never really thought about it, until right now.
Google turns this up:
Source: Go Inside (This article was dated April 30, 1998)
The father of S60, Christian Lindholm, has this to say:
The Nokia 6110 Navigator, was launched a mid range monoblock, with built-in GPS, HSDPA, which means that it will have a fast processor. Spec from a man on the street it is not super far from N95. The 6110 number is a sacred number at Nokia, so they plan to sell alot of them.
Why is that number so sacred? Why use it twice?
I’m sure someone from Nokia PR will tell me that the full name of the device is the "Nokia 6110 Navigator." My question still stands, why use the same number?