Every year the same thing happens.\u00a0 Most (if not all) smartphone manufacturers announce new models, just like new automobile manufacturers.\u00a0 The technology sites are accustomed to it, and there are very few exceptions.\u00a0 Google has I\/O, Apple has WDC, Samsung has Developer Conference, and ASUS has Computex.\u00a0 Each and every year we get a new phone model lineup from all the big players.<\/p>\n
Which brings me to my issue.\u00a0 Every year the models get more and more confusing.\u00a0 This first came to light when HTC released the “One”.\u00a0 How do you top that name?\u00a0 “HTC One 2”?\u00a0 “HTC One Next”?\u00a0 Ultimately we received the worst model name in my opinion: “HTC The New One”.<\/p>\n
Maybe people just don’t care as much as I do, but I envision a world where smartphone models mimic automobile models.\u00a0 Every year we get a new revision, and whether or not the manufacturer decides to make an entirely new model, the consumer can pretty much assume the 2016 model is generally better than the 2015 model, but still be the same form factor, similar (or same) size, and same price point.<\/p>\n
Old style:
\nMoto X
\nMoto X (2nd generation)
\nMoto X Play<\/p>\n
New style:
\n2013 Moto X
\n2014 Moto X
\n2015 Moto X<\/p>\n
Without having any technology knowledge, if you were shopping for a phone whether new or used, just by looking at the model you would know how old (or new) the phone is.\u00a0 In technology, this matters greatly.\u00a0 Consumers cannot be bothered to know the age of the smartphone just by the model name (can you imaging the Samsung Galaxy S12)?<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
Every year the same thing happens.\u00a0 Most (if not all) smartphone manufacturers announce new models, just like new automobile manufacturers.\u00a0 The technology sites are accustomed to it, and there are very few exceptions.\u00a0 Google has I\/O, Apple has WDC, Samsung has Developer Conference, and ASUS has Computex.\u00a0 Each and every year we get a new … Continue reading “Annual Smartphone Models”<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[6,3],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-37","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-rant","category-technology"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p7BMx4-B","jetpack-related-posts":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.curli.us\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/37","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.curli.us\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.curli.us\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.curli.us\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.curli.us\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=37"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.curli.us\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/37\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":38,"href":"https:\/\/www.curli.us\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/37\/revisions\/38"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.curli.us\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=37"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.curli.us\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=37"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.curli.us\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=37"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}