HTC crowd-sourcing name of next device

April 15, 2010 | By Surur

When HTC started using their code names as the real names of the devices (think HTC Legend, Hero and Incredible) their names started becoming a bit more important.

To that end they are soliciting suggestions on their Facebook page for a new mystery device. The names up for vote suggests a pretty youthful device, but HTC has not revealed any information about the handset.

Add your vote at HTC’s Facebook page here.

Via Engadget.com

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Jos Dewey

I always thought HTC had made poor naming choices, but come to think of it, most of their names are actually okay considering how common stupid marketing names have become in the mobile industry. So many devices with meaningless names… LG Keybo, Samsung Moment, Motorola Desire, Palm Pre… that last one is the worst, pre is a prefix meaning before something… did Palm ever plan on releasing the Palm Post?

HTC's names usually sound less interesting but also less stupid… HD (even though they've never made a true hi-def phone), Touch Pro and those are good names. Even Diamond is okay becauase of the diamond-cut pattern on the back… it's not like the LG Chocolate had anything to do with chocolate.

But even HTC starts to go awry when they try and name their devices cool hip names… Hero was okay, and went along with the Dream and Magic which were the other and first two Android devices. But Tattoo? Jovi? Festi? ZEAL?

Hahahaha, do they even know what zeal means? It basically means fanaticism, not sure you'd want to call your device the Zeal because then your customers becomes zealots (leave that to crApple).

Oh well, I think HTC's naming has already gone to shit. Look at Imagio, Pure, Smart… I think they should have left the codenames as the codenames, most people knew their devices' codename anyway thanks to its prevalence on the internet and such places as XDA.

NuShrike

Using Pre has a lot of history. Honda Prelude, and Toyota Prius are some examples.

Jos Dewey

Ha, reaching a bit aren't you?

The Prelude is called the Prelude, not the Honda Pre. Prelude is a word in of itself, pre- is a prefix as I said already so it's usually followed by another word or at least alludes to being prior to something else.

And what about the Prius? That's a different word altogether… and isn't even a word as far as I know, it's just a brand name thought up by Toyota marketing that has no definition – like Lexus.

Some idiot probably got a huge bonus for thinking up 'Palm Pre', and that's just a tragedy. Frankly I'm surprised nobody has ever mentioned what a stupid name Pre is… they rag on the iPad so much for the name, even the Palm Pixie gets ridiculed for having a feminine name… but I guess Pre is a brilliant name.

NuShrike

Why do you continue to fail?

Pre: Latin prae-, from prae – in front of, before
Prelude: Latin praeludere – to play beforehand
Prius: Latin – "prior" or "before"

Try pulling your head out of your ass sometime.

Jos Dewey

You're the one who apparently posses a deep understanding of Latin in 2010, and I'm the one with my head up my ass?

Sorry, but Pre is a really dumb name. They could have called it Prelude or Prius or even Prefix and it would sound less stupid.

Now go quote your Latin elsewhere Hammurabi.
NuShrike

Simple Google, something you in 2010 can't even do, and then resorting to poor straw-man and ad-hominem attacks because you can't back up your points. I've already proved I wasn't the one "reaching," nor leaving in his own reality. But I get it, you got a rant that nobody can chip at.

Meantime for the rest of us in the real world, the point still stands that Prelude and Prius have been very successful marketing names and products all in the vein of Pre, and as weird as the Pre does sound, it's been successful.

http://intensedebate.com/people/l3v5y l3v5y

Chocolate had a reason. It was orignally chocolate brown…

Most of these neams are utterly ridiculous, and how the hell are you supposed to know what to call a device if you don't know what it does?

Also, the Pure and Imagio are AT&T and Verizons naming rather than HTC directly. CitrineC would be a pretty ridiculous name if HTC used the code names for release (though Victor and Raphael sound kinda cool).

Jos Dewey

Noted on the LG Chocolate, but most of them are just really lazy efforts in marketing IMO.

Vic

…. what a stupid bunch of names.
Baz

I'm waiting for an HTC Koozer….touch it, multitouch it, double overhead UX's and ecosystem built in…..marketing people….the whole lot of them should be shot in the eyes with balls of their own poo….perhaps they should name it HTC Stupid, after all the people that will buy something because of the name it has….seems fitting to me
SEKKDS

Call it the "HTC Sucks". I am on a Sprint Touch Pro2, now running WM6.5….. and it kinda sucks. So, I think they need to catch up on the names HTC missed.

Windows Mobile is a joke so far. It is only a matter of days when I give up on all things Windows. My new iPhone is just days away, days……..

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