Gizmodo
We've already covered a juicy rumor about Motorola developing Motorola Z10 successors known as "Zine." Hmm...maybe that's Zines when pluralized. Anyway, Motorola has filed a trademark for "Zine" in relationship to the following huge blockquote of smartphone technology categories:
Mobile telephones, pagers, radio transceivers, electronic personal organizers, headsets, microphones, speakers, carrying cases and phone holsters, computer software and programs used for transmission or reproducing or receiving of sound, light, images, text, video or data over a telecommunications network or system between terminals and for enhancing, interacting and facilitating use and access to computer and communication networks; computer e commerce software to allow user to safely place orders and make payments in the field of electronic business transactions via a global computer network or telecommunications network; computer game software for mobile handsets; computer software and programs for management and operation of wireless telecommunications devices; computer software for sending and receiving short messages and electronic mail and for filtering non-text information from the data; digital cameras, video cameras; data cards, modems, global positioning units, batteries, battery chargers, power adapters, antennas...[and] Wireless telephone services and electronic transmission of data and documents via communications networks and global computer networks.Looks like our intel was pretty good and Motorola has eliminated their anti-vowel bias once and for all. [trademark via trademork]
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I should probably release a new phone called the 'iPed' and see how that goes over.
Wow, I wonder where they got the idea for the name?
how they came up with "Zune""
hmmm...it's gonna have to have a music-ey sound to in (Rhyme it with "Tune"), but be spunky and racy enough to go down with the youth of today, so add in a Z or something. I know, Zune!
How they came up with "Zine":
Let's just copy MS.
RAZR has a vowel...lol. But still, that's a pretty unoriginal name. They'll have to make it awesome, which they probably will.
This is a Joke right? This is as Lame as when Paris Hilton Trade Mark (thats hott)
Zine..... hmm Zine..?
Hmmm, this reeks of a Microsoft/Motorola partnership. Do I smell a Zune Phone? Kinda tacky name though. Zine/Zune, mehbeh.
Motorola has a very cool phone in CHina called the "Ming". It's Linux-based we all wonder why they haven't brought it to the US and Europe.... It would make a great Android hardware platform. Small, half the size of an iPhone, and cool. Not a competitor to the iPhone. Kind of like and iPhone Nano, but with an Open OS: Linux. Coll little device. Made that's the American name?
if microsoft doesnt have something to do with this i can see the lawsuit happening now, unless moto allready paid them.
@altus: except that the motorola touchscreen linux phones aren't that great...unless you're a linux-phile
I'm curious if they expect this to be pronounced zine (rhymes with wine) or like zeen (as in 'zine/magazine).
@utube2007: Hasn't the word 'zine' been in use for a long time now? It's not like Moto is making a large-screened portable music player.
Waitaminute - you mean it's not a collection of cell phone fanfic? Damn. What am I going to do with all these soft-porn stories of mobile desire that I just wrote?
Look for the "Auld Lang" version of whateverthehell it is.
Sorry about this, but I just cant' resist...
What's a Zine?
do i hear a lawsuit, im sure microsoft wont let an i in place of a u stop them from laying on the legal buttraping
what a piece of crap just like all other motorola phones, everytime i see someone with a razr i just want to either punch them in the face or kick them in the nut lol
but seriously though, motorola sucks
Welcome to the SOCL
@Wegmans: I bow down to your superior mixed metaphor.
Maybe they are trying to reach to the general "underground" and emo demographics...
So hippies and Hope can get their Moto too...
By the way... they all ripped Billy Zane.
@diehippiedie: Yep, that's a clear sign of "MOTOenvy".
It's an industry in transition, hoping to surge its way past the iPhone's frothing wake of hype into the new year. Fresh handsests, coming attractions and, hopefully, loads of cool prototypes will be on show at CES this week.
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