Still the Nokia 7710 never really broke through. This could have to do with Nokia's low marketing attention to the phone and the fact that the relatively large phone was launched in a time where phones competed to be the smallest. It also had all the great office tools like a word processor, spreadsheet program and presentation tool that all supported the Microsoft Office file types, a pdf reader and even an HTML compatible mail program (which the Windows Mobile OS only supports since its last version). But the 7710 was probably a bit too kinky and multmedia oriented for the real business user. It was also the only device using the Symbian S90 OS so the amount of third party software was pretty limited.

Whatever the cause may have been, the Nokia 7710 never really got the appreciation it deserved. Still, I do think it has had some revolutionary features we now see adapted by other manufacturers.

The iPhone is probably the closest to being the successor of the Nokia 7710.  User experience and an intuitive interface are the keywords for the smartphones of the future, something Apple picked up really well (as we would expect them to do) with their iPhone. As developers stopped producing software for the S90 platform and retailers don't sell it anymore the Nokia 7710 has never had the credit it could and should have gotten.