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What’s Dumber: A Stupid Name or Meaningless Model Number?

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Motorola’s impending LTE tablet is called the Xyboard. That’s an asinine name for anything. On the other hand, Samsung sells a beautiful 55-inch LCD TV called the UN55D8000, and Sony’s awesome 3D helmet is labeled the inscrutable HMZ-T1. What’s worse?

https://gizmodo.com/say-hello-to-verizons-4g-lte-droid-xyboard-tablets-aka-5864494

A lot of products are given some pretty dumb names: the Xoom, the Bionic, the MOTOKRZR of yore—but is a bad name you’ll remember worse than a string of gibberish numbers and letters that you’ll forget?


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