News of the next iPhone killer competitor came by way of Nokia with one source laughing off the 4 million units Apple has sold: “We’ve done that [volume] since we’ve had dinner on Friday.”

A bold statement indeed and an interesting name to boot. Sure, it’s just a codename but many of the codenames end up becoming the name and we wouldn’t be surprised if this one sticks. The iPhone is so darn generic as a word but so brandable since attributed to Apple. Google owns YouTube and the Put-Word-HereTUBE.com seems like a trend that won’t soon go away.

If Nokia is smart, though, they’ll try to find a name of their own. After all, if the piggybacking starts with the name it will give Apple Fanboys a pretty good argument that the device was an iClone from the start.

To tell you the truth, if the handset is as slick some are suggesting it might be, we could care less about the name or how much it copies the iPhone. Why try to reinvent the wheel? If something works extremely well, take its best qualities, build on its success with some unique ideas and call it your own. That’s the way it works folks.

Anssi Vanjoki – Nokia’s Executive VP & General Manager of Multimedia – would agree, “If there is something good in the world then we copy with pride.”

Here is a quick video of the mobile in mention:

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