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Motorola discovers vowels, trademarks new a new brand called ZINE

Categories: Motorola
By: , IntoMobile
Sunday, December 2nd, 2007 at 9:21 AM

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Motorola is trademarking the name Zine, presumably to be used a sub brand in their smartphone lineup. This isn’t new, companies do this all the time. Sony Ericsson has their Walkman and Cybershot sub brands, Nokia has Nseries and Eseries, this is more of a marketing move than anything. What is shocking is how many things the term Zine will be used to market:

Mobile telephones, pagers, radio transceivers, electronic personal organizers, headsets, microphones, speakers, carrying cases and phone holsters, computer software and programs used for transmission or reproducing or receiving of sound, light, images, text, video or data over a telecommunications network or system between terminals and for enhancing, interacting and facilitating use and access to computer and communication networks; computer e commerce software to allow user to safely place orders and make payments in the field of electronic business transactions via a global computer network or telecommunications network; computer game software for mobile handsets; computer software and programs for management and operation of wireless telecommunications devices; computer software for sending and receiving short messages and electronic mail and for filtering non-text information from the data; digital cameras, video cameras; data cards, modems, global positioning units, batteries, battery chargers, power adapters, antennas…[and] Wireless telephone services and electronic transmission of data and documents via communications networks and global computer networks.

Pagers, you’ve heard it here first folks, Motorola is bringing pagers back!

[Via: Gizmodo]

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Stefan Constantinescu

Stefan Constantinescu (@WhatTheBit on Twitter) has loved technology since as far back as he can remember. It started with computers, but in the past few years his passion has turned to mobile devices. As a mobile phone enthusiast who lives and breathes devices that connect to the internet, he knows he is not alone with this radical fascination of all things wireless. He is strongly opinionated and enjoys a good debate so leave comments in his posts and he’ll get back to you! Stefan began blogging as a hobby in the fall of 2006 and joined IntoMobile in the summer of 2007. Later he got a job at Nokia in March 2008, but as of June 2009 he has rejoined the IntoMobile team. He is currently based out of Helsinki, Finland.

  • gsmExchange

    Aw, how cute. I can totally see someone googling to buy “Zune” and missing just one letter, which is next on the keyboard. A great idea – I’ll just go and register trademarks for Zyne, Zume and Zube.