Android phone makers are flooding the market with handsets. If you can’t beat the iPhone in quality, beat it in quantity. But with that comes a problem: They have run out of marketable names. “What phone did you just buy, friend?” “Oh, you know, the new Samsung Galaxy S II Skyrocket HD LTE 32GB Special Edition.”
What’s in a Name blog just posted this fun graph comparing condom names and Android phones. As you can see, most swing both ways and where there isn’t crossover, like in the condom called Tingle, it’s not that much of a stretch to imagine the name used — the Samsung Galaxy Tingle. The graph also points out some huge opportunities for condom makers; the Trojan Hero would probably be a bigger success than the HTC Hero.
On the same thought, Yinzcam released the Android Phone Name Generator late last year. This fun little web app spits out potential Android handset names like HTC Hero Plus 3D E Prime and Samsung Wildfire Touch E G1 Z. Apparently it’s also applicable to condoms as well.
Matt Burns is a longtime technology journalist, now Editorial Director at Insight Media Group and formerly Managing Editor at TechCrunch. At Insight Media Group, he guides coverage and contributor programs across fast-growing tech publications. Before that, he spent 15+ years at TechCrunch, rising from contributor to Managing Editor, helping scale the newsroom and program Disrupt’s stages and TechCrunch’s other events. Earlier, he also wrote for Engadget. Matt co-founded the Resilience Conference, an event series at the intersection of defense, security, and startup innovation. There he builds agendas, hosts sessions, and launched “Launch @ Resilience,” a showcase for early-stage teams building nation-defending technology. Across roles, he’s reported on and moderated conversations in AI, mobility, frontier tech, and the hard problems technology companies face. He’s interviewed world leaders, top investors, startup founders, and public-company CEOs. Lifelong Michiganian with plenty of Silicon Valley miles, he brings Midwest empathy and an editor’s eye. Offstage, he works with teams to sharpen narrative and validate go-to-market plans, and, when possible, camping along Lake Michigan.