Nokia, please rename the N900

I support the notion that the N920 should be named, not (just) numbered:

maemon900- when I try to follow news on twitter, I have to follow 3 search keywords (n900, maemo, n920) right now.

This means that news trends are shared between 3 keywords – lessening the chance that it shows up on trending topics, or on the radar of blogs, news sites, which live from traffic.

it breaks continuity when the next maemo device shows up. The N920 will build up its fame and fortune from almost zero – unless you can convince all sites to use “n920 (next version of n900)” in their post titles.

You need to speak about the phone and the OS separately, which is complicated and long. The “N920, which runs the Maemo, Linux-based, OS.” instead of “the iPhone”.

The ecosystem, which needs to be built on the phone for years to succeed hurts, every time Nokia comes up with a new Maemo-based phone. All the n900blogsdotcoms need to be renamed etc. unless they picked allaboutmaemo.com style URLs. We tend to say Apple has bought the hype and all news sites to write about the iPhone – but the fact is, it is just easier to follow a winning strategy in the attention ecosystem that way.

- the name is used across the world, not just a “stupid American thing”.

I rarely hear people refer to their “RIM phone”, they have a “Blackberry”. (I can vouch for Europe and Asia here.)

The numbering system was okay, when Nokia had a dozen phones coming out. Now they have 40 per year.

N-series is nice (have you heard many ppl referring to the N900 as N-series?), but Nokia has already 4 quite different target groups under N-Series: music, photo, flagship, flagship-maemo.

I can follow the numbering and I can tell you the difference between an 5800 and an 5530. But I rarely find anyone with the same obsession level as I do and we are talking about consumers, not just Nokia fanboys.

- the uniqueness of the N900 in the Nokia lineup (and in the whole market) is the Maemo community. Multitasking, open source, web browser will be replicated soon (Apple will copy and improve 2 of these in iPhone 4G and that will be the end of our Godphone.) This should be included in the name.

So, my suggestion is this:

Starting latest from N920, this lineup should be identified like this: Nokia Maemo 6. (Current one would be Nokia Maemo 5.)

Nokia, this was your automated wake up call service.

You can discuss this topic in Maemo Talk, under Could the next Maemo device please use a proper name? Please?

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  • kennichi
    Nokia won't listen to your suggestions, as they are not the company like iPhone who release a phone MODEL once in a year. They release it by a patterned letters and numbers as you would notice, and the codenames are internal to them. And of course, it won't matter to consumers, because at least, it is not as complicated is i8910 right?

    Phone models that are released will soon be countless anymore, so I guess it is inevitable that companies will surely can't think of some terms or codenames with sense, unless they repeat them.

    If this is probable, then they may come up with Blackberry's Storm and Storm 2, adding up some digits.
  • Hi Lupa, thanks. It surprises me, that Nokia, as a wannabe Internet company, does not get such a simple reality in the new world.

    P.S.: I'm not sure I'm back (depends on response and if the Maemo phones are as good as they look on the teaser videos :-), but I might be sporting a Nokia phone soon again, if all goes well.
  • Lupa
    Totally agree...

    PS: glad to see you back
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