I’m going to be completely honest: I just purchased a Droid 2 today. I’d been rocking Blackberry for a minute, but… It was time to go smartphone, for so many reasons, the least of which was I couldn’t see that spinning hourglass again without feeling deep trauma. But speaking of deep trauma, as undeniably sexy as the iPhone is, I wasn’t quite ready to endure AT&T’s customer service and service woes (when I was at SXSW in Austin earlier this year, no one I knew with an iPhone could get service); as well, I chose the Droid 2 because I just can’t get down with the touch-screen keyboard—my fingers are too meaty, and I send too many emails to re-type constantly…

I was totally happy with the idea of my purchase until… I discovered there’s going to be a Star Wars edition of the Droid 2 coming out in September! Making the pain even worse… It’s going to be an R2-D2-themed phone! (check out this uber-cool preview website here). It’s going to be available to order online only, with “exclusive Star Wars content and external hardware designed to look like the trusty Droid from the film saga” and an image of R2-D2 on the back. There’s apparently some kind of crazy treasure-hunt contest involved… I’m ferklempt, just ferklempt…

Then again, with a name like “Droid” (which apparently had to be licensed from the Star Wars folks), this development was probably inevitable. Apparently the tech blogs have been up on this for a minute, so where have I been? Now, I am currently crying robot tears… Well, in two years, when I’m due for an upgrade, if they have a Bladerunner edition, we’ll be all good. Until then—the Star Wars edition is definitely the Droid I want!