Re: Nokia needs a name-brand for the maemo devices
 

When devising polls, please include an "Other" or "I don't like any of these choices" option.

Thanks,
Tim

Re: Nokia needs a name-brand for the maemo devices
 

None of the above.

Re: Nokia needs a name-brand for the maemo devices
 

While I don't like any of your get-us-thinking choices, I agree the maemo phones/tablets need a brand name.

I think maemo (especially with the proper pronunciation) is a terrible brand name (at least for the US).

I initially thought Blackberry was a stupid name, but it works. It provides a way to refer to the whole line.

"What's that in your pocket?"
"It's a Blackberry" is a lot better than "It's a 7100e from Research in Motion."

Especially if you want people to start relating to it as a unified, distinct sub-category of consumer device. That will become even more important with releases of subsequent models. Once Nokia has established in the public perception what is unique about the N900, if it just follows it with an N910, the numbering doesn't clearly indicate that it's the N900's successor or that it shares the N900's OS; maybe it's like an N97, who knows? Nor can they readily be referred to as a distinct line.

I call my N800 "Nubbins" -- admittedly, a worse name than Blackberry. But it rolls off the tongue easier to say, "Honey, have you seen Nubbins?" than "Honey, have you seen my N800?".

If Nokia started calling them the Nubbins N900 and the Nubbins N900T and the Nubbins N910, etc., at least people would know that if it's a Nubbins, it's a cool device running Maemo OS.

It's just a matter of creating a better brand name than Nubbins (or Blackberry).

Re: Nokia needs a name-brand for the maemo devices
 

Well, Maemo is a brand...

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Oh my god... trying... so hard.... to hold.... my tongue... SO MUCH... JOKE... POTENTIAL....

Re: Nokia needs a name-brand for the maemo devices
 

True. And I would prefer MaemoPhone N900 to just Nokia N900. But

(a) I'd like a name without "phone" in it so it could include tablets (and I don't see saying "I have a Maemo in my pocket"); and

(b) I think it's a bad marketing name. I don't like it, do you?

Re: Nokia needs a name-brand for the maemo devices
 

Ya, blackberry sounds like a turd :D

Re: Nokia needs a name-brand for the maemo devices
 

Maemo is hard to say, even if you know how to pronounce it. Despite the "iPhone," brand, "MPhone" would be better than Maemo (imho) -- unfortunately, it is too much like the former. Nokia has built a reputation around their numbered devices, so I don't know why N900 (or whatever it turns out to be) wouldn't work.

Still, I like Rover. I think it's pretty cool (even with its connotations to the dog name).

Tim

Re: Nokia needs a name-brand for the maemo devices
 

First off, GREAT first post :)

However, maPhone sounds like something that your mother would be using... something like this.

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Believe me, I'm well aware!

The name came, btw, from a GREAT This American Life episode. It's the third episode ("Act Three. Babies Buying Babies.") from this link:

http://www.thisamericanlife.org/Radi...spx?sched=1278
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