The 30 Worst-Named Phones Of All Time (Part 1)

People always think that phone names should be the least important thing. However, words do matter. When you spent a huge amount of money into researching a captivating name for a phone, and then another massive amount on product market, a name should be important and worth it.

1. Lenovo Phab 2 Pro

Similar to its other product, the Changhong H2, the biggest problem of Lenovo with the Phab 2 Pro was keeping the phone’s fairly great accomplishment—the 1st phone equipped with Tango AR software from Google—behind an absurd name.

2. Royole FlexPai

Royole, the first on the market to release a foldable phone, the maker of electronic note-taking devices and flexible screens. FlexPai is what they name their foldable phone, which is an awfule name. “Flex” to represent the foldable screen, but what about “pai”? An Indian coin? A Payload Analytical Intergration? If they call it “FlexPhone”, at least it makes sense.

3. iPhone XS

Is it the iPhone “Ten S”, “Excess” or “Xtra Small”? This is the confusion that Apple put on its customers. Most people call this phone the “ex ess”, some call it the “ten ess”, which sounds horrible and unappealing for a phone name.

4. Anything “ThinQ”

If you think you should pronounce it as “think”, you’re wrong. It’s supposed to be pronounce as “thin-kyoo”, which again makes it a reason why this phone from the Korean brand LG appear in this list.

5. Samsung Galaxy S6 Edge+

Again, the Korean giant invented such a tongue-twister name for such a great phone. The S6 Edge+ was released at the same time as the Galaxy Note 5. That is probably why some people think mistook the S6 Edge+ as the Note 6, a phone that has never been invented.

6. Changhong H2

Name your phone Changhone H2 is an excellent way to make everyone totally forget your phone’s capability. With this phone case, it is the ability to use sensors to scan the amount of calories in your food.

7. Kodak Ektra

Was the name invented to reminisce the brand’s previous camera, which basically has the same name as the phone, Kodak Ektra? Autocorrect thinks that it should be “Extra” instead.

8. Samsung Galaxy S7 Edge Olympic Games Limited Edition

This is one long name for a phone. This edition of the Galaxy S7 Edge is an special phone made for the Olympics. Good news is it was only given to athletes and was never put on sales.

9. OnePlus One, OnePlus 2, OnePlus 3…

We are getting used to how the OnePlus names their products. But back when it first entered the market, it’s strange to see a company called OnePlus named its products “One” and “2”, which sounded exactly like a mathematical problem.

10. BlackBerry Priv

The first Android phone from BlackBerry, makes people confused as whether to pronoune it as “privilege” or “priv-ah-cy”. The naming came from a company that was mostly known as Research in Motion before changing its brand name to Blackberry.

11. ZTE Axon 7

It is the Axon name that we have a problem with, it is the fact that ZTE just went from Axon 2 to the 7, and totally skipped the number 6. Is the company trying to keep up with Samsung’s Galaxy S7 and Apple’s iPhone 7?

12. LG K8 V

The “V” is probably for Verizon. But the rest just doesn’t make sense at all. What is K8 after all?

13. Motorola Moto G

The problem with the Motorola Moto G is that a few years after its first released, there were three to four models that you could buy from different carriers, which all had the exact same name. If you hadn’t remembered the specs, you would not know which one you wanted to buy. It’s a relief that thing are getting clearer in 2018 as you can choose between the Moto G6, G6 Play and so on.

14. Yezz Billy 4.7

In 2014, Yezz, a phone maker which is based in Miami, put on sales a Windows phone, the Yezz Billy 4.7. The name was invented after the Microsoft founder, Bill Gates.

15. ZTE Iconic Phablet

This was the first time the a phone maker decided to integrated the world “phablet” in its product name, which turned out to be completely horrible. Thankfully, Boost Mobile, a US prepaid carrier made a decision to sell it with the name “Boost Max” instead.