Droid 2 launching as soon as August 12, embraces Star Wars roots with R2-D2 edition

Able to have your mind blown? Good, then sit for a moment: we\’re hearing from a trusted source that the thoroughly-leaked Motorola Droid 2 for Verizon can be launching on August 12 — although it sort of feels to be something of a soft launch, because marketing efforts aren\’t scheduled to kick in until every week and a half afterward the 23rd. What\’s even more interesting, though, is that there\’ll be a celeb Wars edition of the phone launching with a white R2-D2 on the back. For the record, this isn\’t the first time Verizon has toyed with the Droid line\’s Star Wars origins; Motorola actually had to license the name from Lucasfilms, and to promote the original phone, Big Red sent around remote-control Artoos last year to numerous media outlets. What we don\’t know is whether the special edition will likely be launching while the stock version — so if the apparent-vanilla Droid 2 comes out first, which may automatically make the decision of which to buy for some folks. What about you?

[Thanks, RBF]

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