ITunes Changes iPhone Name

In iTunes 12.0.1 when I connect my iPhone 4S running iOS 8.1.1 named Thom's iPhone 4S, iTunes changes the name to iPhone without me touching it.  It doesn't do it all the time but more than 50% of the time the name for my iPhone comes up as a generic iPhone rather than the name I have set for it.
Is this happening to others?  Or is it a glitch in my iTunes installation?

if you go into the summary page in itunes you can just click on the name of the phone and change it there

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