If evolt is just for the American market, it will help weed out gray market,
but, I think, they still could have come up with a better moniker.
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----- Original Message -----
From: "Chuck Norcutt" <chucknorcutt@xxxxxxxxxxx>
To: <olympus@xxxxxxxxxx>
Sent: Thursday, September 29, 2005 6:12 AM
Subject: [OM] Re: E-500 specs (long)
>I thought it was pretty rEVOLTing myself because that's the word that is
> invoked in my mind when I see EVOLT. Yuck!
>
> Chuck Norcutt
>
> Robert Swier wrote:
>> I'm going to agree here, and throw in another annoyance: I completely
>> despise the name "EVOLT". I guess the name is intended to sound like
>> "emote", which means "to express emotion". But, it drives me up the wall.
>> The letter "E" plus a number does just fine. I also don't like the name
>> "EOS", but at least it doesn't look like a misspelling!
>> I think I recall reading that the Evolt term is only used for the
>> American
>> market...i'm not sure why Olympus America thought the extra name was
>> better.
>
>
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