Originally Posted by JayOnThaBeat (Post 313907)

"Rover" is a name.... ;)

Originally Posted by GeraldKo (Post 314086)

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).

Originally Posted by nominaali (Post 313974)

"Wait! I'll just go and get maPhone" or "You can use maPhone" or "I have maPhone here, let us see what the internet says"

maPhone FTW!

Originally Posted by Texrat (Post 314171)

This thread inspired a new article:

http://tabulacrypticum.wordpress.com...the-us-market/

Special thanks to sjgadsby for the Computerworld link.

Originally Posted by Peter@Maemo Marketing (Post 242833)

"Netpad" would be fine if were just trying to find another name for "Internet Tablet". But what if we put more features into Maemo 5 that make up a device such as most Nseries devices: high definition camera, better use for VoIP telephony, and so on? Can the word point a little bit to an crossover of a MID and a smartphone?

Originally Posted by qole (Post 314254)

We settled on netpad, but Peter at Maemo didn't like it.

If we had just read his words a little more closely...

But even knowing what we know now, we still can't think of anything that makes everyone go "yeah!". Interesting.

Originally Posted by Texrat (Post 314258)

Hey, I had some solid ideas in that thread! :p

Originally Posted by qole (Post 314260)

Me too, but nobody seemed to like anything except "netpad".

Originally Posted by nwerneck (Post 314130)

Robbers don't usually know or understand official cool names of these things, they either use an incorrect pronunciation or come up with some strange slang nickname. :p