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. Dec 24, 2006 View in Crawl 4

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jo42 Dec 24, 2006

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iBling?

sporkman Dec 24, 2006

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I DON'T f**kING CARE what the name of it is. why is this such a big deal to everyone?

delmonte Dec 24, 2006

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I 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.

supermansuper Dec 24, 2006

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it should be iDontCare...

cintronben Dec 24, 2006

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Personally, 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 Dec 24, 2006

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I 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 phonecarry on