Comments on: Motorola faces iPhone with Droid army

By: hotdroidphonenews.com

hotdroidphonenews.com — Tue, 17 Nov 2009 19:08:18 +0000

I really like the design of the Motorola Droid. Got mine about 2 days ago. Love the alarm clock feature with the dock station. Hope they make a new version without the keyboard so it can be thinner. The digital keyboard is good enoug for me. Navigation is really fast thanks to Android 2.0. Typing is kinda hard on the keyboard because of the 4 way navigation pad that is in the way. Nah, whatever I think the Droid is awesome and can easily take the iPhone.

By: tinasman83

tinasman83 — Tue, 17 Nov 2009 18:16:49 +0000

I know the name of one of the last companies to use the term droid and get attacked by lucas. That company also got hit by Harmony Gold for using designs that apparently were featured in Macross and other platform animes. The original name used by this company was battledroids. Original company name, FASA, now owned by original owner under new company name. That’s right folks, back when FASA was trying to start the battletech line, they first tried to license it under battledroids, but since the phrase ‘Droid is licensed and owned by Lucasfilms, Lucasarts, ILM (Industrial Light and Magic), Skywalker Sound, and THX; They received C&D orders. FASA then changed the name to Battletech.

By: David

David — Sat, 31 Oct 2009 15:14:25 +0000

For you IPhone fans, this is VERY good news for you; having a legitimate competitor is only going to make Apple work harder. I am psyched for this release; already have my pre-order in. I personally like having a physical keyboard, and HATE Apple’s control over apps that run on their device. But again, having competition helps all of us, no matter what our preferences are.

CConsultant – they have licensed the rights from LucasFilm for the droid name. You can even see that in the fine print of their TV adverts.

By: Zith

Zith — Sat, 31 Oct 2009 14:43:57 +0000

@CConsultant: They paid Lucas already, if the legal text on every DROID advertisement, website and text acknowledging his ownership of the trademark is any indication.

By: jay

jay — Sat, 31 Oct 2009 01:24:21 +0000

Can we please please please fire Obama and make Jha the President?

Obama operates by pandering… promising everybody money… trillions to the finance firms, billions to the auto unions and $250 to the seniors.

Jha says that we have to work to produce what consumers want, and work hard to deliver quality products. That’s what creates wealth, not great speeches.

So who do you really think the country needs as President?

By: CConsultant

CConsultant — Fri, 30 Oct 2009 11:03:15 +0000

Gee i hope they have some great copy right legal people the word Droid is trad marked and copy right to George Lucas. Last company that use Droid got hit hard.. I don’t know how they got a court to give them the rights to a slang name but they did..it’s been a few years since i seen a case so GL could have let things slip but Lawyers never forget so I think big M need to rethink the name

By: mike Vidmar

mike Vidmar — Thu, 29 Oct 2009 22:53:00 +0000

I love my I phone but hate at&t coverage, if my phone case is on and the 3g is on my coverage drops even more, so I welcome a new phone with a company that has better coverage. I own apple computers, 3 Iphones etc

By: crux

crux — Thu, 29 Oct 2009 10:05:56 +0000

@hello

Who cares if Apple offers iTunes? You are limited in choice. With Android you have multiple music stores to choose. It doesn’t really matter if Motorola doesn’t have a music store like Apple. They don’t need to be. They will make as much margin as Apple on hardware. That’s enough.

By: Georgi Borisov

Georgi Borisov — Thu, 29 Oct 2009 09:16:45 +0000

The Motorola is phones about only American community. The number one in the world is I Phone in this segment!

By: roger

roger — Thu, 29 Oct 2009 04:34:11 +0000

Will it teather?