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

AT&T iPhone Commercial

There are some new commercials out for the iPhone4 - several new ones I've seen so far. One of them shows a young African American man introducing his new baby daughter to the baby's grandfather. It highlights the beauty of the iPhone4's phone to phone camera capability called "Face to Face." You can see the light in the grandpa's eyes as well as see the small picture of the baby. The commercial is so touching it almost makes you forget that both people need the iPhone4 in order to make this situation work and just how many grandpas really have an iPhone4 or even want one.

There's also a commercial where a dad is trying to get his adorable teenage daughter to smile. Turns out she's just gotten braces. It's another winner. (Must be a family from an affluent neighborhood - they both have iPhone4s AND she has a full mouth of metal.)

There's one about a haircut, but I think I've only seen that once and it didn't stick with me.

The one that REALLY gets me though is the one where a young wife is calling her husband to tell him, "that thing we've been working on..." has worked. (She's pregnant.) The young actress in this part is so beautiful, so convincing, so radiant... she steals the show. Again, you forget that AT&T is the all-time champion of dropped calls, dead air, and terrible connections... all you think about is the terrific benefits of the face to face connection.

So, the commercials are pretty heart-warming but the AT&T and the iPhone4 are not exactly the top of the line service. Rumor has it that the iPhone4 has been built with the antenna improperly installed into the casing so that, as the customer holds it, the connection drops. (A special case has been built to resolve that problem apparently.) And if you go into twitter or into the bulletin boards at almost any time, you can find numerous AT&T complaints.

Nevertheless... guess who just ordered an iPhone4 3 days ago...

oh well... commercials work :-)

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If you'd like to read more about the iPhone issue with the antenna: http://news.cnet.com/8301-17852_3-20010305-71.html

If you'd like to see these little works of art called commercials: http://techcrunch.com/2010/07/11/apple-facetime-iphone-4-commercials/ That link also has some great commentary!