Mark Your Calendar: Motorola to Launch Droid 4 on December 8th
Mark Your Calendar: Motorola to Launch Droid 4 on December 8th
Posted 11/28/2011 at 7:58am
| by Paul Lilly
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Motorola's Droid 4 is an Android smartphone traditional typists can get excited about. It has a 5-row slideout QWERTY keyboard with LED edge lighting to help you see things in the dark, a 4-inch touchscreen, 1.2GHz dual-core processor, and 1GB of RAM, among high-end bullet points. And perhaps best of all, all signs point to Motorola shipping the device next week.
Droid-Life.com managed to get its hands on some promotional materials seemingly confirming a December 8, 2011 release date. The site also claims to have confirmed that employee training is already underway at some Verizon shops in preparation for next week's launch.
The Droid 4 will feature a slim style very similar to the RAZR. it will have a 4G LTE radio, front-facing camera for video chat, 8MP rear-camera with 1080p HD video capture and LED flash, 16GB of onboard storage, microSD card slot, micro HDMI connector, and everything else you would expect from a modern smartphone.
Image Credit: Droid-Life.com
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Ntldr
November 28, 2011 at 10:48am
Phrish - You do understand that this is Motorola putting this out not Verizon right? Verizon just controls their stores not the actual phone releases.
Vgrig - Have you had any experience with these styles of phones? I have one with a non removable battery and it has been really nice and I have not had any problems.
Should be interesting to see how this one fairs with the Bionic and Razr out there already. The only difference between the 4 and the Razr/Bionic is the slide out keyboard really. Other than the bionic having a lower clocked processor so I think the 4 should be a solid phone only real upgrade from the 3 is the 4G radio and a few other minimal improvements.
silverblack
November 28, 2011 at 1:38pm
The problem with a nonremovible battery is that you can't upgrade it. That's what I did with my droid 2. It added a couple mm to the phone, i shudder to think what the bat life on a thinner more powerful phone would be at stock.
Ntldr
December 22, 2011 at 8:47am
It has not been to bad on my Razr. On days I don't use it to much I can get about 36 hours out of it. and the days I use it a lot I can get from when I wake up at 7 til I go to sleep around 11-12 ish.
Phrish
November 28, 2011 at 9:06am
Droid 4 huh?
Hey VZW, might I suggest standing up, removing the thumb, and announce the Galaxy Nexus already? Wonder if this is why you've always been passed over for a Google Nexus before.
vgrig
November 28, 2011 at 8:26am
non-removable battery again. iPhone effect: making other device makers blindingly stupid - priceless!
kixofmyg0t
November 28, 2011 at 4:33pm
It IS kinda the iPhone effect.
People are fine with the iPhone's non removable battery.
Only about 7% of people buy extended batteries(or multiple batteries) for their phones....SOOOO Moto is just doing what the people seem to want.
Oh and yes it's the PEOPLE. As in MILLIONS. Why do Motorola phones still have Blur? Because out of the 48 Million of them sold around the world.....just over 15,000 people complained and voice their opinion.
Small fish my friend.
Blur has gotten ALOT better though. I actually prefer it to stock Android now.
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