JimM
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What are Nokia doing?
I thought with the introduction of the N & E Series Nokia had drifted away from four digit model numbers.
This obviously isn't the case, they have started to re-use old model numbers which seems a bit odd? More so when the model numbers that are being re-used are from handsets (although a few years old) are still in use today! Yes! There are still 6110 & 6210 doing sterling service!
OK they suffix the model number, 6110 becomes the 6110 navigator - But really was there no other choice? There's also the 6210 being re-used, the 6120 and a few others! I often get customers asking for 6110 batteries (the real 6110 circa 1999) and they get quite confused when I ask them is it a 6110 original or a 6110 Navigator...
Are Nokia re-using numbers like 6110 in the hope that users of the original 6110 will think that the 6110 Navigator must be good because of the model number?
With the N & E Series why not the A, B, C, D... X, Y, Z etc., Series? Why re-hash numbers to cause confusion?
I know the old four digit system had constraints with the first digit being the model type group (i.e. 6 for business phones) and the last two being the market version (i.e. 90 for the USA). But why not do like most other cellular manufactures and go for a letter and three or four digit convention for new model numbers??
I can't think of any other product that has used the same number as a previous model when the new model is vastly different!
I thought with the introduction of the N & E Series Nokia had drifted away from four digit model numbers.
This obviously isn't the case, they have started to re-use old model numbers which seems a bit odd? More so when the model numbers that are being re-used are from handsets (although a few years old) are still in use today! Yes! There are still 6110 & 6210 doing sterling service!
OK they suffix the model number, 6110 becomes the 6110 navigator - But really was there no other choice? There's also the 6210 being re-used, the 6120 and a few others! I often get customers asking for 6110 batteries (the real 6110 circa 1999) and they get quite confused when I ask them is it a 6110 original or a 6110 Navigator...
Are Nokia re-using numbers like 6110 in the hope that users of the original 6110 will think that the 6110 Navigator must be good because of the model number?
With the N & E Series why not the A, B, C, D... X, Y, Z etc., Series? Why re-hash numbers to cause confusion?
I know the old four digit system had constraints with the first digit being the model type group (i.e. 6 for business phones) and the last two being the market version (i.e. 90 for the USA). But why not do like most other cellular manufactures and go for a letter and three or four digit convention for new model numbers??
I can't think of any other product that has used the same number as a previous model when the new model is vastly different!