20 Worst-Named Phones and Tablets
HP Veer 4G
Generally speaking, you don’t want to name a gadget after something that happens right before a traffic accident. Unfortunately for HP, the name of its first webOS smartphone was particularly prescient. After users passed this disaster of a handset, the company veered away from its entire mobile strategy and hit a wall.
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July 6th, 2012 at 11:40 am
This list seems to be compiled from a random collection of gadgets. How can you fault the Galaxy Tab 2 for using the number “2″ and then also fault Apple for *not* using a number for the 3rd gen iPad? Likewise, your rationale that people would have confused HP’s TouchPad with a PC peripheral is laughable. The flat, touch-sensitive surface on your laptop is generically referred to as a “trackpad” not a “touchpad” so I doubt anyone would have been put off.
July 9th, 2012 at 3:05 am
Forgot one ….Surface by Microsoft. When I
First saw that name I had to triple check that
I was reading it correctly , because it was ” that dumb”
July 22nd, 2012 at 3:25 pm
Nokia Lumia is probably the dumbest of them all !!
August 7th, 2012 at 2:30 pm
Surprised y’all didn’t catch the Samsung Smiley (literally branded as the ‘Samsung
’ in some ads).
October 2nd, 2012 at 10:04 am
Simon, in my experience people where I’m from often refer to the touch-sensitive surface on a laptop as touchpads.
How about the HTC ChaCha?
October 6th, 2012 at 3:15 pm
How could you leave out Nook?
January 3rd, 2013 at 8:13 am
this article is pants – for most devices you haven’t even discussed their naming!