The last (but not at all least) of the "fantastic four" handsets Nokia announced on February 11th, at the Mobile World Congress, is the real Navigator, the 6210. I call it the real Navigator because I think this is exactly what the 6110 should have been.
I don't have any specific sales figures, but my guess is that the 6110 hasn't been the choice of many (at least as a smartphone, and not a Personal Navigation Device). It was a very interesting first attempt phone from Nokia (in the Navigator-branded line), however it was let down by the camera, the size-to-features ratio, and even, to some extent, by the inclusion of Route 66 navigation software instead of Nokia's own Maps application. And this was, if you care for an educated guess, probably because Nokia started developing the 6110 Navigator and/or had licensed the 66 software for this phone before they acquired Gate5 (makers of the later-to-be-renamed-into-Nokia-Maps Smart2Go software).
Now, whereas the 6110 Navigator represented a niche of navigation-focused smartphones, the 6210 Navigator will bring this concept to the mainstream, not in small part aided by...well its branding (Navigator) and its predecessor's (I mean the 6210, not the 6110 Navigator!) success and 'number-awareness', if I may call it that.
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Excellent navigation device but i prefer to discover places by foot!