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applegazette.com — iPhone Insider posted a report claiming that Apple's upcoming phone product would be called "iMobile" yesterday. This, like most Apple Phone rumors, made to the front page of digg, and is now creeping it's way through the blogosphere...there's only one problem with it...it's not true.
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- an7agonist, on 10/12/2007, -3/+26I really hope it's not called iMobile...
- koregaonpark, on 10/12/2007, -24/+16I really hope it doesn't even exist. The mobile market just isn't for Apple.
- WiFiHunter4evr, on 10/12/2007, -6/+47Lets see it can be called the:
iRoam, iCom, iPlayMusicToo, iNotJustAPhone, iHave2Batteries, iCall, MyCreatorIsSteveJobs, iWorkOnWindowsTo, iTalk, iRing, TheZuneCan'tDoThis - sakuraz, on 10/12/2007, -5/+30iM
would be the best choice. - editopen, on 10/12/2007, -12/+2won't it just be an iPod ?
- noreturn, on 10/12/2007, -3/+7Don't worry, there's no way any company would be stupid enough to name something that sounds and spells so close to "immobile." And besides, mobile what? Mobile microwave? Mobile houseboat? I took one look at the original story and thought, "*****."
I thought the release of the "iPhone" would be enough to stop the whole Apple phone digg frenzy. I guess for the same reason Bush was reelected, we'll keep seeing anything referencing an Apple phone get diggs no matter how dubious the source. - jasquigl, on 10/12/2007, -4/+5I think this will just be another iPod extended with telephony functionality just like the video iPod.
- Dakk, on 10/12/2007, -0/+6I agree with jasquigl. They'll take their already established brand and expand upon it. It will be something like iPod phone or iChat mobile.
- jo42, on 10/12/2007, -4/+3iBling?
- mattp, on 10/12/2007, -0/+2@koregaonpark:
whether or not you feel that Apple is qualified to make a mobile phone, at this point, they pretty much have to. there's a lot of research out there pointing to cell phones as the next big thing, where music is headed - essentially, the iPod is facing increasing competition from cell phones. Apple has to do something to get itself in the mobile market before its too late - so people wont buy a Nokia instead of an iPod, they'll buy an iPhone. - timdorr, on 10/12/2007, -1/+2Perhaps it's called "Mobile Me":
http://tess2.uspto.gov/bin/showfield?f=doc&state=2kj84b.2.18
http://tess2.uspto.gov/bin/showfield?f=doc&state=2kj84b.2.21
http://tess2.uspto.gov/bin/showfield?f=doc&state=2kj84b.2.22
http://tess2.uspto.gov/bin/showfield?f=doc&state=2kj84b.2.23
They've got 4 trademark requests on it. They were all filed a year ago. Would seem to make sense that they coincide. If it's not the device name, it seems to at least have something to do with it. - championchap, on 10/12/2007, -0/+2iTalk gets my vote.
But i guess you'll be doing more than just talking on it.. so.. well, I guess they will be picking something a little more descriptive of what it is. - timdorr, on 10/12/2007, -0/+1Also, there's the small fact that non of the existing iMobile trademarks are active. Technically speaking, no one has it trademarked right now.
- elroy, on 10/12/2007, -0/+1my money is on "iPod phone" or "iChat mobile"
- panique, on 10/12/2007, -0/+1The only way it the name starts with "i" is if it starts with "iPod". Otherwise it won't be iAnything. iNames are sooo iPlayedOut.
- JerodSlay, on 10/12/2007, -0/+1And this is why I don't pay attention to any mac/apple related rumors. Too many of them are made up and subsequently make the front page of digg because no one does fact checking. "Ahh it's pro apple. *digg*." Apple's fine and great, and so are their products, but the buzz community surrounding it has been plagued with people doing anything to make it to the front page.
- Seidoger, on 10/12/2007, -1/+3I can give a lot of names it WILL NOT be called.
For example it WILL NOT be called "Tomato Spirushy Sprinkle"
Easy to say what it WILL NOT be called. - sobe86, on 10/12/2007, -1/+1Can someone please explain why you guys care? Why does it matter seriously? Nintendo just brought out a console called a wii... Seriously what does the name of this phone have to do with anything?
- unloud, on 10/12/2007, -1/+6I don't hope; I know Apple is more original than that. If anything it would be called iPod mobile.
- texpundit, on 10/12/2007, -3/+15Yeah. Because the regular iPod is for use only in your house.
- einsteindesign, on 10/12/2007, -0/+5No, he's right.
The word "iPod" is trademarked, known, and extremely marketable. It can be used like an adverb or modifier; calling a new product an "iPod Thingy" doesn't *trademark* the name Thingy, so you could very well see Microsoft Thingy, Dell Thingy, etc. But none would have the instant recognition of an iPod Thingy -- the iPod designation implies a certain functionality, form factor, reliability, and more.
It'll likely be called "iPod Mobile" because "iPod Phone" sounds tremendously stupid, and "iPod Cell" is practically redundant (pod and cell are both used to describe something small). The term Mobile is known throughout the world, which is ironic considering the US used to call them mobile phones back when they were installed in cars. We started calling them cell phones as the technology changed, but I think consumers are smart enough to recognize mobile and cell as interchangeable terms.
Anyway, iPod Mobile isn't as dumb as you think.
- ImTheDarkcyde, on 10/12/2007, -36/+7buried as lame for using "blogosphere", if you're going to submit a nice story like this try to use real worlds
- unloud, on 10/12/2007, -4/+25Language is adaptable; get over it. The word blog didn't even exist a decade ago.
- jimthetaff, on 10/12/2007, -35/+4your buried for being a pea brained wanker, has to be American or Scottish
- ImTheDarkcyde, on 10/12/2007, -1/+26"your" buried for not knowing how to use you're appropriately
- Atomic1fire, on 10/12/2007, -0/+2Your,re burried for racism
- MyNightwish, on 10/12/2007, -11/+5I wish Apple would just get this event over with, and bring the phone out or not, i'm just sick of all this speculation.
- lispy, on 10/12/2007, -0/+4Why not call it "Newton"? It´s probably the closest Apple ever came to the PDA market.
- Sethwm2, on 10/12/2007, -1/+2The Newton was nice. I still use them. I have 4 Messagepad 130s they are still compatible with Mac OS 10.4. With some software I have. I think they did a good job with it. To bad Steve Jobs had to kill the project. It was John Sculley's project.
- sakuraz, on 10/12/2007, -0/+1...Erm...FYI, Apple CREATED the market.
- jsc315, on 10/12/2007, -5/+2Does it really even matter.
- panique, on 10/12/2007, -1/+2No. They could call it "ice" and market it to eskimos and still make bank.
- sqwerty, on 10/12/2007, -1/+2They won't call it anything that will tell what the product does. "iMobile" would, "iChat Mobile" would. None of the apple products are named what the do, "iPod"? nothing in that implies it's a music player, "iSight"? "iLife", who would thnk they're applicatons?
I think the name will be something odd, something like "Teleport" for the "iTV" - darkbytes, on 10/12/2007, -4/+2I'm every bit an Apple fanboy but this is getting asinine. I dig all the speculation and what-not about Apple's phone, but come on, a story (even if blogspam) about what it's "not" going to be named? For f*ck sake..
- DanOfDystopia, on 10/12/2007, -7/+2the great thing about digg, is that if you don't like an article, YOU DON'T HAVE TO ***** SAY IT, i like the article, and if you don't, don't read it
- ImTheDarkcyde, on 10/12/2007, -3/+8great thing about digg, is that if you don't like an article, you CAN ***** say it.
It wouldn't be much of a community site if it was just all biased comments
- ImTheDarkcyde, on 10/12/2007, -3/+8great thing about digg, is that if you don't like an article, you CAN ***** say it.
- blogger1947, on 10/12/2007, -0/+13Doesn't "iMobile" come perilously close to "immobile?"
- samanathon, on 10/12/2007, -2/+1http://digg.com/apple/The_iPhone_is_Dead_What_Will_Apple_Name_Its_Cellphone_Now
- mikeod, on 10/12/2007, -3/+4It will be called iomghi2u2!!lol
teenage girls everywhere will buy it. - rickdini1, on 10/12/2007, -0/+1We've all been following Apple for years... we should know by know that it is very hard to predict anything this company does. I would bet that the new phone name doesn't have an "i" before it. That would be too predictable and seem non-cutting edge to me.
- LninYo, on 10/12/2007, -1/+0I think apple is over the whole 'iThisThatnTheOther" thing. Their notebooks are not called that anymore. Their phone is a major event in the company's history (stepping into the cellular-communications market) and they are probably branding it as such, not just another "i-" product, which is getting long in the tooth anyways.
iMobile would have been just an awful awful name IMO.- Murdats, on 10/12/2007, -5/+1what? apple is over the i prefix?
just like the rest of the world was 10 years ago?
thank ***** god
- Murdats, on 10/12/2007, -5/+1what? apple is over the i prefix?
- cyclonus5150, on 10/12/2007, -3/+8I'm thinking that it will simply be called "MacPhone". It puts an emphasis on the Mac brand name and it sounds good.
MacMini
MacBook
MacPhone
MacPro
I think eventually you'll see the iMac renamed...
Macintosh- dkocolin, on 10/12/2007, -0/+5You'll notice the common trend among everything with "Mac" prefixing it.... they're all Macintosh computers! Mac is short for Macintosh, Macintosh is a computer, which is a product for Apple. Calling non-computers Macs or Macintoshes dilutes the brand name and adds confusion. It's like Nabisco coming out with a cracker called Chip's Ahoy.
- Brennan, on 10/12/2007, -2/+3BLOGOSPHERE
- gaydigger, on 10/12/2007, -0/+1they should called it the batmobile
- griz, on 10/12/2007, -0/+5Has anyone been to iphoneinsider.com? The illustration of the "iphone" shows a screen with an IE Icon on it. Why in gods name would Apple release an iPhone with IE on it?? Either the Illustrator is trying to be funny or they don't know much about Apple.
- phantom317, on 10/12/2007, -5/+0you do realize that Apple has recently released computers that can run windows right?
maybe it's you who doesn't know much about Apple. - dkocolin, on 10/12/2007, -1/+0Except Apple isn't distributing IE in any official capacity, just like they're not selling Windows. IE Mac is dead and there is no reason Apple would distribute it on any product. Not to mention there's no mention of a non-Windows Mobile version of mobile IE.
- phantom317, on 10/12/2007, -5/+0you do realize that Apple has recently released computers that can run windows right?
- butcher, on 10/12/2007, -2/+1The fact is, the name of any product is truly undecided until Steve Jobs makes the final decision -- which could be (and has been) changed as late as 9pm the might before Macworld. If you know an insider, ask them about the original Airport base station name, for example.
- gaydigger, on 10/12/2007, -1/+0it was sexual chocolate right?
- haxorjoe, on 10/12/2007, -0/+2That picture seems to have been made quite a while ago. All the icons are from previous generations of Mac OS X
- MBX1, on 10/12/2007, -0/+4it will be called:
THE SUPADOOPAFONE (designed by apple in california) - ddh1969, on 10/12/2007, -0/+0PodPhone ?
Even if they move away from the 'i' they will want consumers to have a popular product/brand to 'link' it to...- dkocolin, on 10/12/2007, -1/+0The point of branding is association....
You think Macintosh you think computer
You think HP you think printer
You think iPod you think MP3 player
If they call it a Podphone then suddenly Apple Pod will be associated with two products and create confusion. Not desirable for a company.
- dkocolin, on 10/12/2007, -1/+0The point of branding is association....
- frosted, on 10/12/2007, -1/+0It will be called the iPfReely.
Nothing says iPfReely like Apple. - mash8591, on 10/12/2007, -0/+0iPod M FTW!!
- fixyourthinking, on 10/12/2007, -0/+1I think the most creative name I've seen so far is "telipod"
- stretchdog, on 10/12/2007, -0/+1I predict the PhoneBook and the PhoneBook Pro!
- splat215, on 10/12/2007, -0/+2Rejoice, another digg story linking to some guys blog where he says "no you are wrong!", then like the previous story provides absolutely zero credibility or sources to back it up.
iMobile trademarks not belonging to Apple - did it ever occur to someone that maybe Apple has a shell company that might register these trademarks for them?
iHater. - Bradillac, on 10/12/2007, -0/+1I've always prefered iChat Mobile... or something to that effect...
- mtappenden, on 10/12/2007, -1/+1I want them to call it appleTelePhone3049394
- unmarked, on 10/12/2007, -0/+3Given the iPod nano and iPod shuffle, my guess is that it will be called iPod phone. Why?
1. The device is said to have both iPod and phone merged together. I would expect Apple to leverage its existing iPod brand to insure a huge success. What better way to show the marriage of iPod and phone than calling it "iPod phone". Sometimes the simplest approach is the easiest.
2. iPod xxxx is already in Apple's domain -- no trademark issues to deal with.- DelMonte, on 10/12/2007, -0/+1I was thinking that "iPod phone" would be shortened to "iPod" by people and that would create confusion with the music-only iPods.
But the context would be enough to differentiate the devices when it matters.
For example: "Call me on my iPod" sounds good (to me), and it makes it clear that your talking about an iPod phone.
And if you say "I'm listening to my iPod", it doesn't matter much if it's a regular or phone iPod, since both can play music/podcasts.
If anyone really wants to know if it's the phone version, they'll ask "Is it one of these new iPod phone?". If anything, having to ask that will create conversations about the product, and the more people talk about it, the more popular it'll become...
I can already see people joking with their regular iPod, taking their nano to their ears and saying "Call me on my iPod... Just kidding, it's not the phone version!". These kinds of jokes will further entrench the product in popular culture.
So the more I think about it, the more it makes sense after all. "iPod Phone" sounds good, even if people call it "iPod" for short. Anything else sounds like some other company trying too hard to make up a new cool word, like "Zune", and these days, just putting the "i" prefix in front of a word doesn't necessarily means it's an Apple product.
- DelMonte, on 10/12/2007, -0/+1I was thinking that "iPod phone" would be shortened to "iPod" by people and that would create confusion with the music-only iPods.
- Jun168, on 10/12/2007, -2/+2My friend works for Apple. He says that they will call their new phone iYap.
- inkswamp, on 10/12/2007, -0/+6My friend works for Apple and he says your friend got fired.
- morningchai, on 10/12/2007, -0/+2It will be called once, and then called often.
Har har.
Apologies in advance. I haven't had my coffee yet. - MKinMotion, on 10/12/2007, -0/+1iMobile is a hokey 3rd party FM transmitter for use with an iPod.
- phoomp, on 10/12/2007, -2/+2My prediction:
There will be no Apple telephone product. The hype has been going on for so long that nothing Apple could release will live up to it.- inkswamp, on 10/12/2007, -0/+1Yeah, well talk to the guys at id or George Lucas about that. Apple will release it. It'll be just fine. Everyone will hate it because it doesn't live up to the wildest dreams. And the world will carry on like normal.
- bluedayfading, on 10/12/2007, -0/+0I think it should be called the -> aPhone. After all, A is for Apple.
- Deuterium, on 10/12/2007, -7/+2How about "AAFLNL" Another Apple Failure like the Newton, Lisa, Hockey puck Mouse.
- inkswamp, on 10/12/2007, -2/+3Newton was not a failure. Apple was having some bad financial times and didn't have the resources or time to invest in figuring out how to cater to the Newton's primary buyers--medical professionals.
The technology in the Lisa paved the way for the Mac. Does that count as a failure?
Hockey puck mouse... I'll give you that but it's a mouse so who cares?
- inkswamp, on 10/12/2007, -2/+3Newton was not a failure. Apple was having some bad financial times and didn't have the resources or time to invest in figuring out how to cater to the Newton's primary buyers--medical professionals.
- inkswamp, on 10/12/2007, -0/+4ApplePhone DXE51231-Z1 Plus-MM/E
Now that's catchy. - petercooper, on 10/12/2007, -1/+1Well perhaps it'll be called the iCell then? Everyone in the world's trendiest city, Los Angeles, calls them 'cells', so it makes more sense than the clumsy iPhone or iMobile, and fits in with the whole hipster image.
- nikoniko, on 10/12/2007, -0/+0From the US Patent & Trademark Office:
Word Mark MOBILE ME
Goods and Services [snip] handheld electronic devices with video, PHONE, messaging, photo capturing and audio transmission functionality
Serial Number 78785931
Filing Date January 5, 2006
Owner (APPLICANT) Apple Computer, Inc. CORPORATION CALIFORNIA 1 Infinite Loop Cupertino CALIFORNIA 95014
Type of Mark TRADEMARK
Live/Dead Indicator LIVE - sporkman, on 10/12/2007, -3/+1I DON'T ***** CARE what the name of it is. why is this such a big deal to everyone?
- nikoniko, on 10/12/2007, -2/+0Apple could decide to sell Steve Job's brown stinking *****, and you'd have months of speculation over what it will be called, what the package will look like, how much it will cost, whether it'll be directly supported in the next release of OS X, how to get it to work with hacked versions of OS X running on non-Apple PCs, and so on.
- DelMonte, on 10/12/2007, -0/+1nikoniko:
How original, I've never read that joke before! /sarcasm
And since you like to make childish jokes, who's selling a brown MP3 player? Hint: it's not Apple... - nikoniko, on 10/12/2007, -1/+0I never said Microsoft wouldn't do the same. It was a commentary on speculation, not Apple. How original of you to respond with the obligatory "Look At Microsoft..." as people have been doing for years. I'm a long-time Mac owner and fan myself, but I don't bristle over every perceived slight of Apple that pops up.
And I'm not original? Forgive me if I don't spend enough time reading online commentary to know what's original or not. My comment was inspired by a real incident that happened when I worked for a software publisher back in '91. A disgruntled employee took a dump in a product box, shrinkwrapped it, and shipped it out to a store for retail sale, thus confirming months of speculation that our game was going to be turn out to be *****. - DelMonte, on 10/12/2007, -0/+1"How original of you to respond with the obligatory "Look At Microsoft...""
You made a childish unoriginal joke, I decided to reply with a childish unoriginal joke myself, to show you how stupid it looked, not because I thought it was a good rebuttal in itself. Personnaly, I think that the Zune jokes about the brown color are childish and unoriginal too. If anything MS chose this color to create that kind of reaction and make its detractors look like immature kids.
And sorry if I didn't know you were one of the few people in the world that actually experienced this "***** in a box" thing for real. The odds of that happening were close to none.
You seems smart, but even if you experimented something similar in real life, your comment was simply rude and childish. Don't expect to get flowers over something like this...
Yeah we all know that Apple rumors are over-discussed, we don't need that kind of extreme disgusting metaphor to realize it.
- windhawk, on 10/12/2007, -0/+2It will NOT be iMobile because it implies "does not move" as in "immobile". Would you name your portable device iNcapable or uNable?
- thejokker, on 10/12/2007, -1/+2why does it matter what the device is called?
isint the device more important than its name with minor exceptions. - MBX1, on 10/12/2007, -0/+1how about:
iCall - supermansuper, on 10/12/2007, -3/+1it should be iDontCare...
- firsttube, on 10/12/2007, -1/+1I think you're the 19th person to come up with that.
- abhim8, on 10/12/2007, -0/+1its just 16 days away. just wait for the macworld to get what its really called, IF its introduced.
- crazyboy1121, on 10/12/2007, -0/+0What do yo think they are going to do with Mobile Me? The patent they filed for along time ago?
- panique, on 10/12/2007, -0/+1Start an ad campaign using Mini Me as the spokesperson cuz it's going to be about 1/3 the size/weight of your average Treo/WinMobile Brick and do 99% of what most people need in a handheld computing platform.
- cintronben, on 10/12/2007, -0/+1Personally, I would rather it have no music capabilities at all. They should focus on the wifi, mini os, and things of that nature. That's what we really want.
- davedekker, on 10/12/2007, -1/+1I think it will be released along with two other products.. a sweet little keyboard vacuum iSuck and a white can of air to clean out your computer iBlow... then again I'm guessing either could be what they name the phone
carry on - ChileanGoD, on 10/12/2007, -0/+1What about an iCell :)
- windhawk, on 10/12/2007, -0/+1I got it! "Apple Talk"
:-)
. - Speed, on 10/12/2007, -0/+1Honestly, if they are gonna go with an iName, and they are going to put emphasis on the MP3 player, they may as well call it "iPod Mobile" or "iPod Phone", because that's all people will look at if htey consider a phone from apple. "Oh it's gotta paly song well, its made by the iPod makers!"
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