YES, while the subject heading is a veiled and overused Star Wars reference, mobile phone fans will recognise it with regards to the highly anticipated Motorola Droid phone.
And I can safely say that the phone is coming to Singapore, and sooner than you think, because I have seen it, felt it and played with it at StarHub's headquarters.
But wait, didn't SingTel just launch the new Motorola Cliq/Dext as an exclusive phone on Jan 20? Did the green team trounce the red team when it comes to the latest Android devices?
Does it mean SingTel got Motorola's less impressive device, while StarHub has the newer one?
Let us compare.
Running on the Android 1.5 operating system, the Cliq/Dext was launched in the US last October with a 3.1 inch screen, Qwerty keyboard and a flash-less 5MP camera.
PHOTO: Supplied by Motorola
Running on the Android 2.0 operating system, the Droid/Milestone device was the talk of the mobile community with its 5MP camera with flash, Qwerty keyboard, 3.7-inch screen, when it was launched in the US last November.
PHOTO: AFP
If you cannot already tell, the Droid/Milestone is the newer and much more powerful device. Eventually, both will be upgraded to Android 2.1 but on pure specs alone, the Droid/Milestone wins.
Due to some bizarre naming convention, the Cliq and Droid monikers are US-only brand names and the international versions are being named the Dext and Milestone respectively.
The point is, when Motorola and SingTel sent out news of their impending launch, I was just one of quite a number of tech writers who were wondering if the Droid/Milestone was finally making it debut here.
After all, let us give credit here - SingTel was the first of the three local telcos to debut the iPhone here.
Alas, SingTel announced the Cliq/Dext instead. It was meant as an exclusive and when the subject of the Droid/Milestone came up, both parties remained coy but said they were saving such news, if there was any, for a later date.
Anyway, imagine my surprise when I attended a StarHub briefing the day after, for a Mobile TV announcement, and saw the Droid/Milestone listed as one of the handsets that the service was optimised for.
If SingTel has exclusive on the Droid/Milestone, StarHub will not bother with testing their Mobile TV service on a competitor's product.
Ergo, the Droid/Milestone is coming to StarHub.
Is it an exclusive? Motorola executives whom I met at both events were mum and StarHub won't say. I guess the deal is still being worked out. And while there is no projected launch date, I do not expect it to take long.
And if StarHub can have a working set running its Mobile TV service for the media to preview, and list the Droid/Milestone on their line-up of handsets, I do not think they will try and hold it back much longer either.
So, if you have been sold on Android and are impressed with the Cliq/Dext, why not hold off on that purchase. In an age of competing for consumers with the latest devices, I think it is a safe bet that StarHub found the Droid they were looking for.