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Nokia: We’ll Name Our Phones

Sometimes it’s painful when a treasured technological tradition passes by the wayside, but…well, change is good, right?

Today Nokia, the world’s largest maker of mobile phone handsets, told a Citigroup investors meeting in New York that it plans to name its future mobile phone lines, instead of using a numbering systems to distinguish models. According to Nokia’s head of marketing Keith Pardy, in the future customers “are going to start to see names that carry a meaning and are important to consumers.”

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Rivals like Motorola and LG have had considerable success with their RAZR and Chocolate phone branding,

Nokia did not reveal any names it might use for phones in the future; we’re kind of hoping they don’t take after Sweden’s IKEA and grant every product a vaguely Scandinavian name, often humorously tied to common English terms. Nokia’s just-introduced 8880 “Sirocco” might be an indication of the company’s naming direction…although it comes across more like a car model from Ford or GM than a svelte Finnish phone.

Still, we’ll miss the days when everyone knew what we were talking about when we said fashion bugs lusted for a Nokia 7360,

But, in a way, named Nokia phones won’t be the same. After all, everyone knew what we’re talking about when we say we’re lusting after a 7360 or thought the 6201 was maybe the ugliest thing on the planet. (Ah…good times, good times.)

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