Droid 2 R2-D2 edition spied in the wild, ready to repair your X-wing
By Chris Ziegler 
posted August 11th 2010 7:16PM
posted August 11th 2010 7:16PM
[Thanks, Brian D.]
posted August 11th 2010 7:16PM
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Repair your X-Wing? Droid Does.
@Pkmnrulz240 Android does. Droid doesn't
@Pkmnrulz240
Obiwan Kenobi, you are our only hope!
Yoda and Darth Vader approve.
@zerverize
I hate Star Wars, but even I have to admit that's fucking cool. :)
@NuklearPanda After R2 abandoned and betrayed me and spurred a battle that inevitably led to the destruction of 2 of my Deathstars and millions of lives, I too want this
I understand grieving about the Death Stars, but my lord, the lives were expendable!
Is R2 frozen in carbonite?
@Xtole Seriously GET OVER IT. People have adopted the term "droid phone", to refer to android phones. I know the difference between a moto droid and android, but really man who gives a crap if people want to shorten it.
@a dumb cat
I love Star Wars and I have to say that's FUCKING COOL! :)
@Pkmnrulz240
*random beeps*
@Pkmnrulz240 Cant wait to see one of these in person!
Meanwhile, @Engadget, I wanted to point out something going on with Nokia. They're doing some Mystery event on Aug. 18th, Check it out:
http://www.womworld.com/nokia/16660/what-is-nokiabox/
@Lord Vader
You nutcases have just caused me to do the most upranking I've ever done. And yes, I'm ashamed.
I'll wait for the Family Guy Cleveland Brown R2 version.
@skyblaze
You forgot the *random whistles and whirs*!!!
that's some expensive birth control..
@Pkmnrulz240
Man, that's ghey! You'd have to be a pre-teen to take something like that out in public to go along with your matching Star Wars lunch box. Go into a business meeting with that and you'd be the talk of the water-cooler crowd. This is 2010, not 1977.
@MrBigStuff
Who the hell cares? It's R2D2!
@Pkmnrulz240 Hmmm....this makes me look a bit fat, but the royalties ought to feed my synthetic oil addiction for YEARS. I can't wait to hear which of my catch-phrases they'll include as ringtones.
@Lord Vader - You had it coming...
@Pkmnrulz240
ARE YOU RTARDs FARGIN KIDDING ME? THAT IS THE DUMEST LOOKING POS IVE EVER SEEN! LOL, android fans will buy any pos that comes out every other week. And then they joke about apple fans buying stuff just cause its apple!?!? If this were made by anybody else, you guys would downrank it into oblivion. this thing is ugly, and you know it.
@R2D2
Wow......
@Meekermoloko Just stick a little afro on top!
@Pkmnrulz240
R2... I need more power!
...in the form of a 1.5Ghz snapdragon cpu. Beep. Beep.
@Pkmnrulz240
Anyone else here besides me actually going to Celebration 5 tomorrow at the Orlando Convention Center?
@kruger4gamecocks
Lmao calm down kid, its a novelty item and there aren't going to be a unlimited number of them, also don't start raging "RTARDS FARGIN KIDDING ME? THAT IS THE DUMEST POS..." when you can't even spell "dumb" seriously go back to 3rd Grade and then start over, but this time do less pot, learn more, and become a more mature person. Btw you have seen a small picture of the back and a pretty lousy picture at that, how can u judge it that much?
@DK198 lol, best comment of the week.
@Pkmnrulz240 This may just be a pic of an iPhone 3G/3Gs hard case, see Star Wars Shop: http://shop.starwars.com/catalog/product.xml?product_sku=SWLFLICR2
@kruger4gamecocks: "android fans will buy any pos that comes out every other week. And then they joke about apple fans buying stuff just cause its apple!?!?"
You have no clue. This has nothing to do with phone fanboy-ism. It's official STAR WARS merch, and Star Wars fans will buy just about anything SW related.
This thing is ugly.
@Fadakar. Thats what Padme said
@Fadakar Agreed, looks like a friggin decal
@FacepunchMcCoolpants Hey cool, another fp member. :D
@Lord Vader
No, I'm pretty sure what she said was "I LOVED yo-*hurk*"
@Fadakar
If by ugly you mean SUPER-BADASS then yes, it's VERY ugly.
@Fadakar Yeah, pretty damn ugly. I guess it'll give you some nerd cred though.
@Oghowie
I don't know how I feel about the design. It just feels so underwhelming, but I do hope that they replace the flashlight app with a lightsaber app! That would totally make it a purchase for me!
@Lord Vader
Just so you are aware, the X-wing target Nav is now available. Hope you got the disaster insurance this time.....
@Fadakar
Screw you.
@Fadakar
This is not the Droid your looking for.
Waves hand
@Fadakar There's a fine line between "geek" and "nerd." This product is nowhere near that line.
Suddenly my excitement for this phone has died.
@jfortun
What he said!
@jfortun Ditto.
Disappointed, I am.
This one may be ugly... But Nerd Pride liveth.
The iPhone may have the Lightsaber app, but this one will also shoot it out the top of the phone, right into your hand.
@jedimacfan
You know Android has a lightsaber app too?
@jedimacfan It'll be the bad "holding it wrong" quips all over again!
That is not quite as bad ace as I had hoped.....but it's still kinda cool.
Lord Vader , are these the droids that we are looking for?
@blkrabbit. This or the Droid Pro. Depends if you like annoying little Astromech droids that beep uncontrollably