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Apple’s Phone WILL NOT be called “iMobile”

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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  • 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.
  • inactive, on 10/12/2007, -1/+26"your" buried for not knowing how to use you're appropriately
  • an7agonist, on 10/12/2007, -3/+26I really hope it's not called iMobile...
  • unloud, on 10/12/2007, -4/+25Language is adaptable; get over it. The word blog didn't even exist a decade ago.
  • blogger1947, on 10/12/2007, -0/+13Doesn't "iMobile" come perilously close to "immobile?"
  • inactive, on 10/12/2007, -3/+15Yeah. Because the regular iPod is for use only in your house.
  • 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.
  • inkswamp, on 10/12/2007, -0/+6My friend works for Apple and he says your friend got fired.
  • 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.
  • 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.
  • 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.
  • 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.
  • 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

  • inactive, 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
  • lispy, on 10/12/2007, -0/+4Why not call it "Newton"? It´s probably the closest Apple ever came to the PDA market.
  • MBX1, on 10/12/2007, -0/+4it will be called:

    THE SUPADOOPAFONE (designed by apple in california)
  • inkswamp, on 10/12/2007, -0/+4ApplePhone DXE51231-Z1 Plus-MM/E

    Now that's catchy.
  • 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.
  • 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.
  • inactive, 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
  • 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.
  • inactive, 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.
  • 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.
  • 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?
  • 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.
  • Atomic1fire, on 10/12/2007, -0/+2Your,re burried for racism
  • 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.
  • 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.
  • 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...
  • 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.
  • 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.
  • 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.
  • 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.
  • Brennan, on 10/12/2007, -2/+3BLOGOSPHERE
  • 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.
  • panique, on 10/12/2007, -1/+2No. They could call it "ice" and market it to eskimos and still make bank.
  • 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.
  • elroy, on 10/12/2007, -0/+1my money is on "iPod phone" or "iChat mobile"
  • 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.
  • 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!"
  • windhawk, on 10/12/2007, -0/+1I got it! "Apple Talk"

    :-)

    .
  • 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?
  • ChileanGoD, on 10/12/2007, -0/+1What about an iCell :)
  • 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.
  • sakuraz, on 10/12/2007, -0/+1...Erm...FYI, Apple CREATED the market.
  • MBX1, on 10/12/2007, -0/+1how about:

    iCall
  • 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.
  • MKinMotion, on 10/12/2007, -0/+1iMobile is a hokey 3rd party FM transmitter for use with an iPod.
  • 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.
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