HTC wants you to name their next phone
By James • Apr 21st, 2010 • Category: HTC
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Someone at HTC had the smart idea of letting you, Joe and Jane Public, name the company’s next phone by crowdsourcing on Facebook.
Options
In a note posted on Facebook, HTC says they are ‘looking for a name that is playful and full of youth’, before asking you to choose from one of four options. The options available are the HTC Zeal, HTC Wildfire, HTC Festi and the HTC Jovi.
What should it be?
If you’ve ever taken note of how HTC names their phones, only one should stand out. Between the Magic, Dream, Hero, Incredible, Desire, and Legend, surely it would be overzealous to overlook the HTC Zeal. It’s typical HTC grandiose fair, and who doesn’t like that?
The road previously traveled
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Crowdsourcing – the act of engaging your audience as sources of product information and creation – has come of age recently, particularly with the Internet making it so simple. Mobile handsets giant Nokia recently went a step further than HTC, by crowdsourcing the design of a handset the company is working.
When HTC is not being lazy
In the last 12 months, HTC has released the well-reviewed HTC Legend and the amazing HTC Desire. In the months to come, its 4G HTC EVO is on the horizon, and early specs and impressions indicate it may be the most powerful phone in the world.
In addition, HTC is rumoured to be considering acquiring the ailing PDA giant, Palm, who were recently reported as having put themselves on the chopping block after months of bad results. The theory is the Palm acquisition would give HTC a powerful distribution and retail channel in North America where they’re waging war with Apple iPhone platform.
Now head on over to the Facebook page, and in your zeal, do what’s right. It would sit quite nicely next to HTC Legend.
Tags for this article: HTC Desire, HTC Legend, htc name, phone name
I’m not seeing the HTC “Un-updateable” in the list…. Oh, that’s the entire Android product line.
Six months now and still waiting for any update for my Hero so I can do file transfer over Bluetooth instead of having to tether it every time. If they *ever* release an update, it will probably be after I’m eligible for a new phone on my carrier.