Google’s latest offering is in the middle of a controversy—not because of it’s features, but it’s name.

The family of author Philip K. Dick is complaining that the new Nexus One phone infringes on the writer’s sci-fi novel Do Androids Dream of Electric Sheep?—a work that was turned into the 1982 Harrison Ford film Blade Runner.

A bounty hunter named Rick Deckard is charged with a mission to eliminate rogue “Nexus-6” model androids in the book.

The connections between the book and the phone are highlighted by the fact that the Nexus One runs on Google’s Android operating system, said Isa Dick Hackett, a daughter of Dick and the chief executive of Electric Shepherd Productions, an arm of the Dick estate devoted to adapting the late author’s writings.

In the book, Nexus-6 models are portrayed as having brain power that rivals that of humans.

One page reads, “The Nexus-6 android types, Rick reflected, surpassed several classes of human specials in terms of intelligence. In other words, androids equipped with the new Nexus-6 brain unit had from a sort of rough, pragmatic, no-nonsense standpoint evolved beyond a major—but inferior—segment of mankind. For better or worse, the servant had in some cases become more adroit than its master.”

(article source: Hindustan Times, photo source: Reuters)