Counternotions has a thought-provoking essay about the future of iPhone naming, pointing out that we can’t very well have an iPhone 3G++ or an iPhone 4G floating around. According the Apple naming principles, the only thing they could really do is call it the iPhone Pro if there were any material changes in the look and feel. Otherwise, it will probably just be iPhone 3G yet be considerably different than iPhone 3G–.
Apple never designated the original product iPhone 1G or iPhone 2G. Introduced as a convergence device, it was simply called iPhone. The next version last year (twice as fast, at half the price) was named iPhone 3G. The “3G” part was referencing the speed upgrade from 2.5G/2.75G (EDGE) to 3G (HSPA), not its generational order. Only after the introduction of the iPhone 3G did it make sense to refer to the original as iPhone 2G, but that’s not Apple’s nomenclature.
While this is much like divining the name of God using eviscerated stoats, this sort of futzing is excellent fodder for endless prognostication and argument on fanboi boards, at least until the new iPhone is officially named, so I offer it as an exercise to you, the reader, to offer your own potential name. I think it will be called the iPhone Millennium Edition. Your thoughts?
iPhone “broke” losing your house, gaining your connections. For times like these, live in a cardboard box and yet stay “connected”
I’m guessing iPhone video.
No, try again. iPhone has been able to play video since generation 1.
I would say iPhone HD. Maybe throw in an HD capable screen and we are good to go.
iPhone 360
Apple® iPhone™ NextGen© with lots more iServices 2009™
With the new iPhone Mirage all of the things that you wish the old iPhones could do would be right on the horizon (Copy and Paste, Video Recorder, Flash Drive capability, Turn by Turn directions for the GPS) where they will continue to stay. Well, couldn’t exactly call it the iPhone Wishful Thinking now could they!!!
iSmug?
iCoolEnough?
iWhatRecession?
Snow iPhone 3G
while not sticking to apple conventions, “iPhone2″ would fit well enough–however it could cause some confusion going from 3G to 2…so probably not.
My bet, is that they refresh the entire product and just revert back to simply, “iPhone”.
iPhone 3G [Steve] Jobs-less Edition
Um, the new iPhone 3G? iPhone 3G (mid-2009)? You know they won’t add stupid stuff to it, that’s not Apple anymore.
Maybe it will be the Apple iPhone Cube, it will have a handle and you can pull the guts out of the case with ease.
well i think this time they might have more colors and so they might just end up calling it “iPhone” but they are replacing the LCD screen with OLED and rumors out there are saying its getting a graphics chip and longer battery life, that being said , Apple is going green! there for it might have an add on like “iPhone Pro”, all the major software upgrades might be big enough to be call the iPhone Pro, with iChat and iCam, making the best iPhone yet! i think!
Why not iPhone Unibody ?
Iphone 3Gen+
i think one day iphone have only advantage no disadvantage
i call it iphone-e
iphone is everything and every feature
You people at the iPhone are doing a wonderful job, meeting all the expectations and winning all the challenges. BRAVO 2 all of you.