Motorola’s tablet to be named Xoom?

By on Dec 22, 2010 at 2:44 PM
Tablets December 22, 2010

Electronics maker Motorola has been quietly filing for patents on the name “Xoom” the world over. The Internet is not-so-quietly speculating that Xoom could be the moniker given to the company’s Android-based tablet that has already made several cameos. Moto has, thus far, filed for protections in the U.S., EU, Canada, Australia, New Zealand, and Taiwan. If this is in fact the name to be given to the company’s tablet, we at BGR would like to congratulate Motorola for not including the seemingly obligatory suffix “pad” anywhere in the device’s name.

What do you think of the name Xoom?

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  • Frank

    Include one with every new Mazda: “Zoom-Xoom”!

  • Sugar Grove

    Or is is pronounced exume? like pulling a dead body out of a grave?

    • David

      ah, dude, you meant “exhume”. LOL!

    • guest

      That’s exactly what came to mind when I first saw the word; exhume!

  • Sugar grove

    DOH! spellcheck…. Exhume

  • Pat Torney

    I assume you mean they are applying for Trademark protection on the name Xoom, not Patent protection, right?

    • Jarretautechre

      you assume wrong, jackass

      • Myc

        actually, you are

      • Anonymous

        jarra, “words” or “names” are not patentable subject matter under 35 USC 101

    • Anonymous

      @Pat, correct.

  • Tomm

    And I thought “XFINITY” was a bad name…

    • Mtpflyers

      It was especially when people realized it’s still comcrap!! LOL

    • David

      it IS a bad name. I despite made up names like that. must have come from a computer or else a deranged Comcast exec. Either way, I dumped Comcast cable this year FTW!! :)

  • Bringit

    darth gayder.

  • Terminator

    XOOM is the name of a money transfer company…. Just like moneygram… So I guess that name is already taken.

    • Myc

      may have to go with second choice, Zume

  • Donny

    Wait so VZW is going to call it the DROID XOOM?

  • Goran1459

    If they are just applying for a trademark protection this thing is not coming out any time soon. They can’t manufacture it without a name. So it sound like we’re going to hear “This is what’s coming out by the end of 2011″ at CES.

    • Anonymous

      Incorrect Goran, that’s not how TM filing works.

  • Anonymous

    Sounds too much like Voom, the failed HD sat service started by Cablevision.

  • http://twitter.com/cefranco2 Carlos Franco

    I cant wait to see the RazrPad!!

  • http://twitter.com/chadmd23 chadmd23

    Wasn’t Xoom the original name for Sprint’s WiMax?

    • Racervortex

      No that was Xohm – sounds like home

  • Anonymous

    I can not wait for this thing! Nothing more I like than new hardware with the word “Verizon” embossed on it.

  • Vbjedimaster

    This is terrible idea Motorola. We may be sick of having Pad or Tab in product names but they serve a purpose. They clearly identify the product. Sure anyone here who keeps up with this stuff will know it’s a tablet but what about the casual consumer, the non-techie crowd. We you say iPad or Galaxy Tab you can immediately surmise it is a pad or tablet. Now Xoom, I can imagine most people won’t know what that exactly is.

    Motorola was genius in the Droid branding. Most non-techies I know think all Android handsets are “Droids” which means Motorola is the first thing you think about if you want an Android phone (even though the iPhone destroys Android IMHO).

    Now with the tablets I don’t see people distinguishing all Android tablets as “Xooms”, do you?

    DroidPad or Droid Tab as us techies hate the sound of it would immediately identify as something like a Droid which is oh by the way the BEST selling Android line ever.

    Come on Motorola, don’t bite the brand that feeds you.

  • Juancromero86

    Actually Droid is a trademark of Lucasfilm, licensed by Verizon Wireless. moro doesn’t have anything to do with it, as there ate Droids not made by motorola like the HTC INCREDIBLE. Get your facts straightened out before you talk nonsense.

  • Anonymous

    Xoom did they mean zune

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