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viPhone

clayj

clayj

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I deal with enough iPhone setups for clients that I don't want to have to keep distinguishing between the two phones by saying "Verizon iPhone" or "AT&T iPhone" -- their differences are subtle, but important. So I'm curious as to what anyone else thinks about using the name "viPhone" (pronounced "vigh-phone") to describe the new Verizon iPhone -- it's no harder to say than "iPhone" but the "v" tells you it's different.
 
Interesting thought. However, there are still people I talk to who don't know what version of the iPhone that they have (original, 3G, 3GS, 4) they just know that they have the iPhone. So getting them to call it something else may prove to be difficult, but is it really that difficult to ask which carrier they are on?
 
Quit being lazy people.
It's not that hard to say Verizon iPhone or AT&T iPhone.
 
Surely said:
Lazy Americans......
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Says the guy who drools over our technology.


On topic,

It's s clever idea to call it the viphone, but might be more confusing for less tech savvy people like mentioned above.
 
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Isn't it bad enough that celebrity couples get their names blended, ie. TomKat, Brangelina, etc.?:mad: We don't need to do it with tech stuff.
 
clayj said:
I deal with enough iPhone setups for clients that I don't want to have to keep distinguishing between the two phones by saying "Verizon iPhone" or "AT&T iPhone" -- their differences are subtle, but important. So I'm curious as to what anyone else thinks about using the name "viPhone" (pronounced "vigh-phone") to describe the new Verizon iPhone -- it's no harder to say than "iPhone" but the "v" tells you it's different.
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I like it; viPhone and AiPhone (pronounced iPhone).
 
I dunno, why not call it an iPhone - shocking I know :eek:

Why should we make distinctions by carrier? We don't see europeans doing this and they've had their choice of carriers and the iPhone for a while now.
 
People are going to call it what there going to call it not everybody will agree. Verizon iPhone works for me. I expect though we will see Vphone V-Iphone Verphone etc etc... As I said before people can't even get the Touch right most still say Itouch.
 
And when Sprint gets it, and when TMobile gets it, and when MetroPCS gets it...

SiPhone
TiPhone
MiPhone

Hmmm.... just go with Apple iPhone. (The 'Apple' is optional, of course; but for those that need to communicate the carrier -- spell it out.)
 
Surely said:
It's "eh".

Just trying to point out that all the other countries with multiple carriers don't seem to have this problem.
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Ah, but in all those other countries -- and even in the US, until today -- those phones were all, for all intents and purposes, identical. Right? An iPhone 4 from the US could be taken to the UK or Japan or China or Australia and it would work in any of those places, once an appropriate SIM was installed.

The viPhone has different hardware -- namely, it uses CDMA instead of GSM. It's a different phone. You can't switch it over to AT&T or any of those other carriers, just as you couldn't switch an iPhone over to Verizon.

It deserves a different name.
 
maflynn said:
I dunno, why not call it an iPhone - shocking I know :eek:

Why should we make distinctions by carrier? We don't see europeans doing this and they've had their choice of carriers and the iPhone for a while now.
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Yeah a simple, 'what network are you on' will suffice
 
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