Motorola Droid

Should a phone be pretty? At least the ad whiz who came up with the latest Droid spot embraces the clunky, awkward design they are stuck promoting. "It's not a princess, it's a robot."

Now that the Droid "does" it also smashes televisions, duct tapes racehorses to missiles, tears through metal and busts through cinderblock walls. Do I smell desperation?

The Apple logo on the back of your iPhone now has competition. Next week it will be possible to carry around a mobile device with three corporate logos!

Verizon, Motorola and Google each get their own billboard space on the Droid, scheduled for release next week. In a brazen act of branding, two of these logos (Verizon and Motorola) actually appear on the front AND back of the Droid.