From the Editor's Desk: Smartphone names are getting stupid again - jacquesdifewore1989

My very first Android phone was a Samsung Becharm Soaring. I called it Soarin. I had to; calling it the Captivate Glide just felt ridiculous. The Samsung Enchant Glide was the QWERTY Keyboard variance of the Samsung Galaxy S II. The Coast was the followup to the Samsung Captivate, the AT&adenosine monophosphate;T-tailor-made version of the original Galaxy S, which had over a dozen unlike named variants in in the US unsocial. It was the dawning of a new era for Mechanical man — and for confused-behind earpiece names.

The Captivate Slide is actually happening the tame end of the spectrum if we look back over the sunset decade of Android phone naming. The Samsung Galaxy S II Heroic Tinct 4G. The T-Mobile MyTouch 4G Coast. The Lenovo Phab 2 Pro. The Acer Liquid Nip Plus. The Casio G'zona Ranger...

And now, the Samsung Galaxy S20 Extremist 5G, because somehow in the last 10 years, Samsung hasn't constitute a better fashio to name a slab of silicon, glass, and metal.

There's a good deal to be excited approximately in 2020 when it comes to smartphones. After a few years of stagnation and relative uniformity, things are about to catch inventive and fresh and weird. We've got folding phones! We've got (mainstream) 5G phones! We've got circular phones! Air-cooled, bang-up, but for the love of all that is compos mentis and logical in that world, could we maybe rein it in with the naming in 2020?

Your phone name should get 3 words, 50 characters maximum.

Erst upon a time, Motorola did something bold, daring, and sane: they simplified their smartphone portfolio down to three lines: The Moto X, the Moto G, and the Moto E — Droids don't count since those are carrier contractual obligations. They cut down the jumble and made it easy for buyers to figure away which of their phones they wanted. This worked amazingly well, with the Moto G becoming 1 of the most democratic phone brands in Inner and To the south America. Merely then Lenovo wanted to have its cake and eat it, too, so the Moto G line split into two models, then three, then four.

Brand marketers want phone name calling to beryllium directly recognizable and associated with its successful predecessors. And so when a mannikin splits, we end up with the Galax urceolata S20 and the Extragalactic nebula S20+. And then when the models split again 'tween 4G and 5G, we set about the Galaxy S20 5G and the Galaxy S20+ 5G. Then they resolve the want to Gigantamax a phone, and so that one has to however cost a Galaxy S20 5G, merely it needs to have a modifier that's eve cooler than Summation. Healthier than Plus....

Go beyond! Plus Ultra! Source: Funimation

Hey, that'll work. Samsung Galax urceolata S20 Ultra 5G!

Let's give another exercise: we now think there's going to make up iii versions of the Pixel 4a. Last year we had the Pixel 3a and Pixel 3a 40, indeed we'll now have the Google Pixel 4a and Google Pel 4a XL, plus an extra 5G sit that will presumptively comprise called the Google Pel 4a XL 5G. It's the seamless laying claim, it follows the unhurried pattern and makes it easy for buyers to tell where it falls in the Pel 4a batting order...

You can do amended Google, Samsung, and Motorola, and please, in this new decade, let's try something new with the names: apiece phone gets 3 words and 50 characters maximal, including the company name. 3 dustup basically rules KO'd tacking on "5G" at the end, and keister hopefully boost some newer, more useful series names you could adopt instead.

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