Of course, the first thing to do when you have a new piece of technology is to name it. At first, I wasn’t sure what to call it.  Typically, my mobile or auxiliary devices have been named after spacecraft and other astronomical items – my flash drives are Mercury and Titan and my external hard drive is Orion.  On the other hand, my computers have typically been named after rocks or stones – my IBM ThinkPad is Monolith, and my MacBook is Neolith.  So I could’ve gone with Microlith or Nanolith for the new phone, but it just didn’t feel right.

In the end, I went with something unorthodox – Trooper!  Here’s why:

1)I intend to put it through its paces – “trooper” being slang for something that works tirelessly without complaining.  (It better!)

2)It is made of white plastic and represents an organization which insists on imposing its own standards of everything, with no possibility of rebellion:

3)It has a hard green shell which is removable:

4)Finally, this has absolutely nothing to do with the device itself, but it need be mentioned:

So there you have it!