Verizon has made it clear today that the highly anticipated Motorola Droid Android smartphone will begin shipping next month, after an official unveiling on October 28th.
Press packages were sent out that include a remote control R2D2 droid (from the Star Wars films) holding a card that reads "11.09" and the Moto Droid teaser site.
The device will have a 3.7-inch screen, run a TI OMAP3430 ... [ read the full article ]
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Originally posted by ydkjman: Does any one know if this is true that Lucas has the word Droid copyrighted ?
He does, though he rarely cracks down on other people using it, unless it is something crummy that he wants to prevent (the orriginal title for "Battletech" was "BattleDroids", George stopped this if only to delay production of this terrible program). It seems clear from the R2-D2 promotion that he (or at least Lucas Arts) are involved anyway, so not much fear of a lawsuit here.
Originally posted by TBandit: hahaha that was a pretty funny comercial it reminds me of the "sega does what nintendon't" comercials
Yeah, that was a great commercial...I was just reading some Asimov and I had a terrible thought: if apple ever made a Robot, it would be called the "iRobot".
Well.... This is amazing. The phone that can [maybe] beat iPhone on my carrier. I'm with Cricket, so it shouldn't take too long for the first few folks to figure out how to move this phone over. I'm even more hopeful that being a non-brew-dependant OS, I might actually be able to use the GPS functios(Sorely missing on my Cricket-hacked LG Dare).
I'll be watching this one closely, looks like an amazing piece of equipment!
