Comments on: What Will Apple’s Next Generation iPhone 2,1 be Called?

By: Richie

Richie — Mon, 08 Jun 2009 00:04:32 +0000

MacMobile may be for the netbook solution from Apple, so perhaps MacPhone & MacMobile

By: Richie

Richie — Mon, 08 Jun 2009 00:01:08 +0000

MacPhone is one possibility, after all it is much like the Mac, it runs Mac OS X and I am a software developer for the iPhone and software is written also most the same way as the Mac it’s self, so since Microsoft is pushing Windows Mobile, will Apple push MacPhone or MacMobile ?

By: Carl

Carl — Fri, 05 Jun 2009 20:41:22 +0000

how about the iPhone Classic?

By: Essac

Essac — Sun, 31 May 2009 14:26:38 +0000

No no no It’s call ifuckphone

By: bobbbbby

bobbbbby — Sun, 31 May 2009 11:59:19 +0000

iPhone 3G+

By: Chip

Chip — Sun, 31 May 2009 03:20:31 +0000

It’s called iPhone 3Gen.

By: ShevonJames

ShevonJames — Fri, 29 May 2009 04:08:54 +0000

The next iPhone name will definately be called: iPhone 3.0

Because of the operating system software version update, and the model

By: Phoenix

Phoenix — Thu, 28 May 2009 09:51:42 +0000

iPhone 3G v2 (version 2) makes most sense. I don’t like iPhone Pro (makes me think it should have a hard keyboard). iPhone HD, not bad. Kind of copying the Omnia HD though. iPhone Video.,,hmmm, if it has video chat and video recording. But, definately shouldn’t be iPhone 4G, or just iPhone or iPhone 3G again. Too confusing for most to figure out what phones what for those who are unaware of the Hardware differences.

By: brick

brick — Thu, 28 May 2009 03:25:24 +0000

I always thought the fact that they put 3G behind the iPhone showed how slow they were compared to other phone makers. It's like saying they should call the next iPhone: iPhone MMS.

I think they should just keep to iPhone. And they should admit they dumbness and renamed the iPhone 3G back to just iPhone. Now we can go back to calling the iPhones 1G (1st gen), 2G, 3G etc.

By: sups

sups — Wed, 27 May 2009 20:07:41 +0000

They could just call it iphone 3G becuase all the G stands for is generation, and it would still live up to it since its the 3rd generation of iphone

By: Sooraj

Sooraj — Wed, 27 May 2009 06:20:56 +0000

i bet it will be iPhone 3G-Pro!!!

By: ShevonJames

ShevonJames — Wed, 27 May 2009 05:24:46 +0000

iPhone lll seems to be the wiser answer on here so far.

But considering they will be coming out with different models it's a bit unsure right now.

iPhone Lite sounds to be one. iPhone Air was said already iPhone Pro was a great assumption

By: Lequang242

Lequang242 — Tue, 26 May 2009 23:07:21 +0000

2nd3G iPhone

By: Lequang242

Lequang242 — Tue, 26 May 2009 23:04:38 +0000

2nd Gen. iPHONE 3G

By: Corey

Corey — Tue, 26 May 2009 21:58:25 +0000

My guess is iPhone 09. I have heard this name on various blogs and podcasts and sounds reasonable to me. It has a good ring to its name.

By: iSkythe

iSkythe — Tue, 26 May 2009 21:51:28 +0000

Argh it messed up the spaces in above post. Every time you see the word iPhone, it’s a new name

By: iSkythe

iSkythe — Tue, 26 May 2009 21:49:58 +0000

iPhone X iPhone: The Clone Wars iPhone 3G2 iPhone Video iPhone Air iPhone Pro iPhone 3.0 iPhone Pre iPhone AV iPhone HD (if it has HD screen) iPhone iPhone 3G iPhone Almost-4G iPhone Cool iPhone Awesome

By: pleask55

pleask55 — Tue, 26 May 2009 21:22:12 +0000

hey that’s cool!

By: bbart3d

bbart3d — Tue, 26 May 2009 21:14:22 +0000

iPhone Exec

By: pleask55

pleask55 — Tue, 26 May 2009 21:06:34 +0000

I agree with simply ‘iPhone’

By: davez

davez — Tue, 26 May 2009 21:01:44 +0000

I think the new name will be “iPhone video”

By: Alen Boardman

Alen Boardman — Tue, 26 May 2009 19:11:56 +0000

I reckon they should and hope they call it the iPhone 3GT (3g Network – Turbo)(Rumoured to be better processor, RAM etc!)

By: WatersWest

WatersWest — Tue, 26 May 2009 19:06:56 +0000

Since it is the 2nd gen of the iPhone 3G, then I say it will be the iPhone 3G-2G.

By: Aaron Matthew Kaiser

Aaron Matthew Kaiser — Tue, 26 May 2009 17:29:37 +0000

iPhone 3Ga

"a" either means "advanced" or can stand for "first revision". I'm surprised no one said this one already.

By: Ryan

Ryan — Tue, 26 May 2009 17:20:56 +0000

@HBSteve

You do realize that there is practically NO hardware in the iPhone dedicated solely to the iPod functionality and that it's basically just a software feature right?

You could argue that Apple needs to pay more attention to the business side of the iPhone's software but it has nothing to do with the hardware...

By: mystic

mystic — Tue, 26 May 2009 16:33:59 +0000

iPhone AV sounds good.

By: Truth

Truth — Tue, 26 May 2009 16:15:14 +0000

The iPhone 3G Should Have Been – What it should have been when it launched a year ago.

By: gegy

gegy — Tue, 26 May 2009 15:35:44 +0000

I think Iphone NG (=Next Generation)

Gegy

By: Proto732

Proto732 — Tue, 26 May 2009 15:00:06 +0000

iPhone 3G squared.

still 3G speeds
3rd Gen version

By: Kevin

Kevin — Tue, 26 May 2009 14:06:48 +0000

The iPhone

By: Harold

Harold — Tue, 26 May 2009 14:06:23 +0000

Umm I think there gonna stick with iPhone 3G I honas don’t think there planning on changing the name at all, if anything iPhone 4G. Why, because they’ve never used anything like those names in a handheld devices before. Lots of people don’t even know what 3G means why would they wonna complicate it even more?

By: Justin M

Justin M — Tue, 26 May 2009 13:42:37 +0000

If they make all these upgrades to speed up performace with maybe 802.11n wifi and more ram, why not call it something like iPhone turbo? Just a thought.

By: Eduard

Eduard — Tue, 26 May 2009 13:25:43 +0000

I think itd gonna be the iphone video. Video is now the greatest newvfeature last year it was 3G support so they called it the iphone 3G

By: Harvey

Harvey — Tue, 26 May 2009 13:01:27 +0000

They will call it "new iPhone".

@ HBSteve

why is the ipod feature a waste of money? it doesn't cost you anything.

By: Big Willie

Big Willie — Tue, 26 May 2009 12:45:32 +0000

@HBSteve

iPhone with less iPod? Go away! That's what makes the iPhone so appealing to the general public - music integration! Remove or take away from that and you literally have no differentiation between the iPhone and all of the other smartphones and PDAs on the market. Nobody does music like the iPod and nobody integrates it more intuitively in a phone than Apple does with the iPhone.

How about we leave the iPod portion alone and work on strengthening the phone aspect of the iPhone? In other words, let's leave well enough alone and continue to improve the device.

By: Adam

Adam — Tue, 26 May 2009 12:41:28 +0000

They will probably just call it iPhone.. Or iPhone HD.. Which sounds sexy as hell.

By: Andre

Andre — Tue, 26 May 2009 12:24:23 +0000

iPhone Touch 3G

By: iBamse

iBamse — Tue, 26 May 2009 12:09:33 +0000

@Laiquelleion:

TeliaSonera and Ericsson have just set up the world's first commercial 4G/LTE site in Stockholm, Sweden.

Huawei is setting one up in Oslo, also for TeliaSonera.

This has been referred to as the two first commercial 4G/LET contracts in the world. TeliaSonera signed the two contracts more or less simultaneously, and will use the installations to benchmark the two suppliers.

By: maniacfive

maniacfive — Tue, 26 May 2009 11:28:58 +0000

I'm thinking it'll stay with iPhone 3g (accurate on both counts now) or they'll just go with iPhone.

I think it needed the 3G mentioned in the name when they released the second gen iPhone. Alot of people, myself included, weren't willing to go back to a non 3g phone, and gave the first iPhone a miss because of that. The 3G in the name let everyone know, including those people who might not have been following its development. But now... everyone knows about the IPhone! so i think it'll just be called iPhone. with the qualifier being size just like the iPod.

By: frog

frog — Tue, 26 May 2009 10:56:44 +0000

I think just “iPhone”

By: Tenor146

Tenor146 — Tue, 26 May 2009 10:28:43 +0000

I don't think they'll call it the 3G again because it wouldn't be enough of a difference to start a new hype around a "new" product. With the iPhone 3G, people always asked "is that the iPhone or the iPhone 3G?!?" there has to be some type of difference.

Maybe iPhone 3 or just iPhone? Who knows.

By: lordzod01

lordzod01 — Tue, 26 May 2009 08:50:03 +0000

I think this years iPhone will simply be an upgraded 3g. A stepping stone for next years release when peoples contracts are up for renewal. Looking at it this way I think 3g pro isn’t there yet. iPhone 3.1 sounds more like apple with the pro next year.

By: Laiquelleion

Laiquelleion — Tue, 26 May 2009 08:33:49 +0000

@Bloggliv

Sweden does have transmitters for 4g in the main cities true. Calling it the worlds first is however simply not accurate. Japan has had 4G for a while now. We are just slow over here . The americans have it much worse..but still slow in comparison to the japanese

By: Filistata

Filistata — Tue, 26 May 2009 07:43:08 +0000

iPhone 2 electric boogaloo

By: Clairvoyance

Clairvoyance — Tue, 26 May 2009 07:35:15 +0000

iPhone Air? Hahas.

By: Jpwillis269

Jpwillis269 — Tue, 26 May 2009 07:27:51 +0000

iPhone ultra. Or perhaps the unibody iPhone???

By: Kevin

Kevin — Tue, 26 May 2009 06:39:05 +0000

I think they will keep it simple since this isn't a major update. So I think they will just call it the iPhone.

Now when the forth gen iPhone comes out. It should be a major update so iPhone HD or iPhone Pro should be great names

By: Ilija

Ilija — Tue, 26 May 2009 06:26:34 +0000

I think the basic, iphone4. Comone its apple

By: Jason

Jason — Tue, 26 May 2009 06:11:27 +0000

iphone 2009… this way they can update the name every year…

By: Marc

Marc — Tue, 26 May 2009 06:08:22 +0000

iPhone Home Edition iPhone Small Business Edition iPhone Black iPhone Gold

iPhone HD sounds reasonable, though.

By: Ben

Ben — Tue, 26 May 2009 05:37:27 +0000

I’m thinking it’ll just be iPhone 3.0. Especially if the other news story about the icons is true, the physical difference will be minimal so the name probably won’t change much either.

By: Stacylou

Stacylou — Tue, 26 May 2009 05:30:31 +0000

IPhone threegee.thesequel

By: Loner

Loner — Tue, 26 May 2009 05:16:45 +0000

Something tells me that it will be awhile before you see a 4G cellphone. I know that all the telcos are going to LTE, but just because they have the network doesn’t mean a cellphone is going to be out right when the network is launched. Track history shows that when an updated network launches its usually for data cards. I would imagine that we will have a 3.5G phone sometime next year and that the iPhone will stay iPhone 3G until a network change.

By: BBYM

BBYM — Tue, 26 May 2009 05:09:52 +0000

New gen. Iphone 3g??

By: pcdsim

pcdsim — Tue, 26 May 2009 04:43:11 +0000

iPhone 3, iPhone 3.0, or iPhone 09. Use iPhone 4G for next year.

By: bokeen

bokeen — Tue, 26 May 2009 04:41:18 +0000

This is Apple, after all. I bet they keep it simple and roll with "iPhone." I was surprised that they went with "iPhone 3G" for the second-gen model. They will keep it simple to avoid alienating users who don't have the latest model.

If they didn't go that route, they'd end up with awkward names like Blackberry (Pearl 8130, for example.) That's not Apple's style.

@iShirk - Hilarious!

By: HBSteve

HBSteve — Tue, 26 May 2009 04:20:15 +0000

I agree with Spidesol… give me a iphone less the ipod(and the bulk of the cost involved) and it would rock… id never use the ipod features on an iphone, and thus waste of money for me… bring out that fabled $99 iphone thats JUST a phone and web browser, gps, video record , sms etc, and it would be great… one focused on business.

By: iShirk

iShirk — Tue, 26 May 2009 04:19:06 +0000

iPhone pre

By: Spidesol

Spidesol — Tue, 26 May 2009 04:09:57 +0000

They should just call it ” the Iphone that finally got MMS, video record, copy/paste, and picture flash after everyone else 3G ” I love apple but sometimes I feel apple is more focused on the iPod part rather than the phone features of the “IPHONE”

By: Spidesol

Spidesol — Tue, 26 May 2009 04:01:41 +0000

Off topic but I’m p***** off the lakers just lost

By: dloveprod

dloveprod — Tue, 26 May 2009 04:00:43 +0000

I’m with Wesley

By: Renzai Rizumu

Renzai Rizumu — Tue, 26 May 2009 03:59:05 +0000

Lol, yeah, I wouldn’t be surprised if they called it the iphone 3G again as well. Though I am quite fond of the “iPhone Pro”.

By: Syncopations

Syncopations — Tue, 26 May 2009 03:58:38 +0000

Perhaps, iPhone 3G 2009.

By: Pat

Pat — Tue, 26 May 2009 03:53:22 +0000

iPhone Video

By: Nick

Nick — Tue, 26 May 2009 03:38:42 +0000

It wouldnt surprise me if they called it the iPhone 3G again, with the obvious emphasis on a hardware “refresh” rather than a significant upgrade. This would allow them to introduce properly an iPhone 4G or something similar with the advent of LTE networks in 2010.

By: OmariJames

OmariJames — Tue, 26 May 2009 03:35:49 +0000

I like iPhone HD.

By: Jarett

Jarett — Tue, 26 May 2009 03:19:33 +0000

iphone 3g…but this time for “3rd gen” :p

By: Wesley

Wesley — Tue, 26 May 2009 03:14:02 +0000

Just iPhone 3G, the previous one will be discontinued. It’s like the iPod Touch, we call it 2G but in fact it’s just ‘iPod Touch’.

By: NevadaScott

NevadaScott — Tue, 26 May 2009 03:12:59 +0000

I think it will stay with iPhone 3G, but maybe add one or two letters to decipher the difference between the 2nd gen and the new 3rd gen. Something like-U (for updated) or -E (for enhanced) or -V (for video) so something that looks like this: iPhone 3G-U, iPhone 3G-E, iPhone 3G-V OR iPhone 3GU, iPhone 3GE, iPhone 3GV. I really have no idea… none! haha. I dont care what they call it, as long as it comes out and i have it shortly after it hits the shelves.

By: Bloggliv

Bloggliv — Tue, 26 May 2009 03:12:49 +0000

Stockholm, Sweden, got the worlds first 4G-network up and running but thats one transmitter only and still fine-tuning it. Still, we got a network

By: Spidesol

Spidesol — Tue, 26 May 2009 03:07:20 +0000

What if it’s called “iPhone ??” so competitors don’t know what they are going against?

By: JHernandez

JHernandez — Tue, 26 May 2009 03:06:48 +0000

iPhone III

By: Jarett

Jarett — Tue, 26 May 2009 03:04:29 +0000

it will be called iphone 3.0

By: JNHohol

JNHohol — Tue, 26 May 2009 03:02:32 +0000

I agree, iPhone ’09 like Rob from Today in iPhone called it.

By: rebo

rebo — Tue, 26 May 2009 02:43:20 +0000

iPhone 2009

By: Justin

Justin — Tue, 26 May 2009 02:39:33 +0000

I’m sticking with my guess I’ve had for some time now… iPhone 3G Pro. I think it makes sense as it will have a few nice tweaks over the current gen, but not really a groundbreaking phone until we have 4G. Hopefully by next year Apple can go with the name iPhone 4G.

By: sting7k

sting7k — Tue, 26 May 2009 02:38:16 +0000

They will probably just go back to iPhone with nothing else in the name.

By: Juanlu

Juanlu — Tue, 26 May 2009 02:32:15 +0000

Another possibility could be iPhone AV ..with the improved camera, the ability to record video and (who knows?) its front camera for video chat.. it’d be a no-brainer XD

By: Simon

Simon — Tue, 26 May 2009 02:29:30 +0000

I think it will just be call iphone 3G 2nd gen. Look at the ipod touch. Its name didn’t really change when the 2nd generation was released.

By: Spidesol

Spidesol — Tue, 26 May 2009 02:27:23 +0000

I think it might be called iPhone 3GPO lol