Motorola Droid 4 Lands at Verizon on February 10 - stopscoperfell

Motorola's Droid 4, with its somatogenetic QWERTY keyboard, arrives Friday for $200 to round out Verizon Wireless' 4G LTE smartphone roster.

Like its predecessor, which launched but seven months ago, the Droid 4 has a 4-inch qHD display, 16 GB of internal storehouse, an 8-megapixel rump-facing camera and a strawma-facing tv camera for video confabulate.

Compared to the Droid 3, it has double the RAM, at 1 Gi, to keep the phone squirting smoothly, and a 1.2 GHz three-fold-core processor as an alternative of 1 GHz. The Droid 4 is a bit thinner than the old model, future in just under a half-inch thick, and it borrows some intent elements from the Droid RAZR.

Only the Droid 4's biggest new feature — and, presumably, the reason out Verizon is pushing the speech sound out thus soon — is 4G LTE support. Verizon needed a 4G phone with a physical keyboard, and now it has one. At this point, Verizon seems to have stopped debut high-end Android phones without 4G LTE support.

As with the Droid Razr, the Droid 4 uses Android 2.3.5, but Verizon is promising an upgrade to Android 4.0, far-famed as Ice Drub Sandwich, eventually. Motorola's delivery along its wonted software tweaks, including "Smart Actions" that terminate preserve stamp battery life by automatically adjusting settings. The Droid 4 testament also support Motorola's Lapdock 500, a laptop computer-like accessary that runs a full Web browser, powered entirely by the phone.

To coincide with the found, Verizon is bringing back the double information promotion that it made available for 4G phone buyers last year. So users WHO produce a $30, 2 GB plan will get 4 GB instead, and so along. The newsboy will also consort a buy one, get unitary free promotion on the Droid Razr and Droid Razr Maxx start Friday, so Motorola-loving couples will want to harbour cancelled on buying new hardware until then.

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