You name the iPhone

According to the Inquirer, Comwave, a Canadian company, has been using the name iPhone in the US and Canada for the last two years. This could be a slight problem for Apple, given that in nearly all the coverage its unannounced, and still speculative, mobile communications device has been deemed "the iPhone".

The Inquirer even popped over to the Canadian Intellectual Property Office and searched the online trademarks database for iPhone. It found three documents there: an opposition, a search and an abandonment by Cisco. Their search of the United States Patent and Trademark office turned up two applications as well, one of which the Inquirer thinks was an unsuccessful application from Apple (by "Ocean Telecom Services").

So we're throwing the question out to you readers. What would you name the iPhone if you weren't allowed to call it the iPhone? Let us know in the comments.

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Source: http://www.theinquirer.net/default.aspx?article=36205

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According to the Inquirer, Comwave, a Canadian company, has been using the name iPhone in the US and Canada for the last two years. This...

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Daniel

Or in homage to the Woz
Dial-a-Joke

January 18 2007 at 2:51 AM Report abuse Permalink rate up rate down Reply

Daniel

The Mac4096K
Mac++
i-Phone
iDial
FinalCallPro

January 18 2007 at 2:49 AM Report abuse Permalink rate up rate down Reply

Ameet

ibuddy

January 16 2007 at 1:11 AM Report abuse Permalink rate up rate down Reply

Stevie

How about "iPod Communicator"

Sounds a bit like the Nokia Communicator but much the same product type

January 15 2007 at 9:25 AM Report abuse Permalink rate up rate down Reply

joey bartholomew

notciscoiphone. But people will then just call it the the iphone
like the oriole park at camden yard but people just call it camden yard anyway.

Or Apple could try "Icing". Because it is only on Cingluar and I have Nextel and Sprint. And since they chose a network that freezes me out of their product I won't be getting one.

January 12 2007 at 10:52 AM Report abuse Permalink rate up rate down Reply

leova

imcanadianphone

January 11 2007 at 12:53 AM Report abuse Permalink rate up rate down Reply

sponge

iDontExist

January 08 2007 at 9:33 PM Report abuse Permalink rate up rate down Reply

krakman

why not reuse the old appletalk trademark?

January 08 2007 at 3:22 PM Report abuse Permalink rate up rate down Reply

Max

I vote for Apple Phone.