Not-so-smart Phone Name, UH YEAH - EMILY LITELLA

TODAY IS AUGUST 12, 2010. I WROTE THE BELOW ON AUGUST 11, 2010. I THOUGHT THE NEW DROID PHONE WAS NAMED THE DISCONNECT BECAUSE THE HEADLINE ON A YAHOO NEWS ARTICLE READ -- "NEW DROID DISCONNECT."

GUESS WHAT.... THAT WAS THE HEADLINE, NOT THE NAME.... YOU MAY NOW OFFICIALLY CALL ME EMILY LITELLA -- "What's all this about the Droid DISCONNECT?" Man, do I feel stupid. I left the blogpost up here because I am just soooooo stupid that it seemed kind of funny. Here I am channeling Gilda Radner.
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Ummm... I don't understand why you would name your cool new phone a "Droid Disconnect." Especially when it's attached to Verizon which is known for not losing the signal (unlike AT&T which would make more sense if it named THEIR phones Disconnect or Dropper or even Mr. Fade-Out.

You spend so much time, money, research to make a great smart phone then name it Disconnect???? Who was the brilliant highly-paid executive who made THAT decision???

On the other hand, how smart are smartphone names, anyway? The iPhone??? I realize that was to match up with iPods but shouldn't all of these linked back to Apple instead of "i" ???

The Blackberry??? Where did that come from? What has anything it even does have to do with fruit.

But I guess, in the long run, phone names are sort of getting like car names -- they are just trying to come up with something that sounds cool. Nevertheless - isn't name the Droid Disconnect sort of like naming the next Toyota, the Toyota Crash?

For your fun and enjoyment, following is first, a full list of names leaked back in December of 2009 for a HTC smartphone that was being worked on for T-Mobile. Following that is a HUGE list of names I found of Samsung smartphones.

Leaked HTC names;

Bahamas, Bravo, DesireC, Dragon, Dream, Espresso, Halo, HeroCT, HeroC, Hero, Huangshan, Incredible, Legend, Liberty, Memphis, Paradise, PassionC, Passion, Sapphire and Supersonic. (They ended up going with "Dream" -- beats "Disconnect.")

Samsung names:
Samsung Eternity
Samsung Behold
Samsung Instinct
Samsung Saga
Samsung Omnia
Samsung Jet
Samsung Charcoal
Samsung Gravity
Samsung Comeback
Samsung Highlight
Samsung Memoir
Samsung Epix
Samsung Ace
Samsung Galaxy
Samsung Magnet