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Forums › Legacy mobile platforms (Windows Mobile, Palm OS, Web OS, Symbian, Meego, Blackberry) › "i" in iPAQ
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#1080 16-Feb-2004 22:33
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I am curious what the "i" menas in iPAQ. I have looked, but can only come up with some guesses.



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#3563 16-Feb-2004 22:41
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Hmmm. Perhaps "i" for Internet and PAQ for Compaq? But couldn't be, the first models came out without that much connectivity and ages ago.




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  #3564 16-Feb-2004 22:48
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I thought the same things. Maybe Intel for the processor? I can't seem to find reference to it anywhere.

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  #3876 26-Feb-2004 00:16
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well at first everybody started adding a 'e' to the names of the products, and then it was no longer cool and the thing to do was to add an 'i' to your products.

On the related note, there are a spate of small companies who have decided it would be cool to be called something ending with 'paq'



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  #3878 26-Feb-2004 02:28
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Well, "paq" is obviously from Compaq. But the "i" surely must mean something. I can find nothing on this, and no one who seems to know!

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  #4116 8-Mar-2004 13:16
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maybe its just to make it sound cool or something. nokia does it too, 3530 has no colour, 3530i does.

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#4145 10-Mar-2004 07:56
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i as in I, as in personal....

 
 
 
 

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  #4184 11-Mar-2004 18:52
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is that your guess or is that true?

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  #4186 11-Mar-2004 20:58
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Just a guess, but I think I read it somewhere a few years ago, when the 3400 series was launched.

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  #5623 9-May-2004 20:04
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my guess:

"i" for individual (in the case for iPaq PDA)

"i" for integrated/internet-enabled/internet-appliance (in the case for iPaq desktop)

"i" for improved (in the case for Nokia)




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