Not many phones come at the on-contract price of $249, save for the Epic 4G, and now, the latest addition to the Droid family - the R2-D2 edition of the Droid 2. At $249 it's not exactly cheap, but then again, that buys you not just the Star Wars-themed phone itself, but also:
- a box designed to look like carbonite
- a special Star Wars dock
- the interactive live wallpapers we caught sight of earlier
- a bunch of custom sounds, photos, and widgets
- a "binoculars" app (your guess is as good as mine as to what that's for)
- an Empire Strikes Back app that will be available from the Android Market for $2.99 for this device and all other Android phones on Verizon running Android 2.1 and above

Of course, the software side of this phone should be ported over to other Android devices soon enough - look no further than the clever hackers developers over at xda-developers for proof of that - but who could say no to an R2-D2-themed phone?
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