I shall call mine "Engu" (Ngoo)

We also used it as a placeholder for the N800 successor long before that ;-)

N900 is a Unicorn, mythological creature that can't be captured.

In latin is Monoceros, that can be abbreviated to Mon.

For me N900 is Mon ( )


I'm a user that pre-ordered it long time ago...

If they were just for reference within Nokia and within developer circles, that's fine.

But a consumer device SHOULD have cool names, or at least names. People remember names, they don't remember numbers, especially when there are literally dozens of other numbered Nokia devices on sale at the same time.

It could perhaps be a subname which is used on the box and in marketing, which is what they've done with a lot of phones:

Nokia 7900 Prism
Nokia 5800 XpressMusic
Nokia 5500 Sport

...what could be the subname for a future Maemo device?

Well, the idea isn't all that bad. Notice that iPhone is much easier for the average blonde secretary to remember and say than Nokia N900 model S (yeah, i know there's no suffix on it, but just to prove the point).
However, keep in mind that the iCompany only has 1 phone, not the gazillions that Nokia has out. As it's been said, it's hard to come up with names that are both not taken, and easy to say in languages ranging from British English to Swahili. That being said, i think high-profile devices like the n900 deserve to have a nickname, if only to make it easy to remember by people with 16-bit memory
Also: having a general 'suffix' for a device with a number isn't very useful. If i go to the store and ask for a nokia sport, i'm gonna get confused looks until i explain that it's the 5500 actually

But that's EXACTLY why the Maemo devices need a special name, to distinguish them from the dozens of lower-end devices which Nokia also sells.

At the moment people see the N900 and the N97 and assume they're pretty much the same thing, but really inside the N900 is a generation ahead of the N97. It needs a label to make people realise it's something special, that it's the best that Nokia has to offer.

I think Maemo needs a sub-brand of its own to reflect its highest-end hardware. This is what Nseries was when it started, but it got spoilt by less-than-cutting-edge hardware creeping into the range.

If they could come up with a totally new sub-brand which was 100% Maemo and used a proper name, then that could be good.

How about the Maemo MacGuyver ? Since you have an all-in-one device

let's called it the myPhone 3GS

i disagree.
i find it much easier to remember a certain number in a line of products, and many of my friends see it the same way.

i don't want to memorize or know dozens of product names by dozens of manufacturers. which is why i forget most of those names the second after i hear them

Not to mention then the names get confusing when you create the next version of that product.