[FINALLY]Droid 4 available Friday: first Verizon LTE phone to cost $200 at launch

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

[Click to enlarge] Motorola Droid 4 Lands at Verizon on February 10Like its predecessor, which launched only seven months ago, the Droid 4 has a 4-inch qHD display, 16 GB of internal storage, an 8-megapixel rear-facing camera and a front-facing camera for video chat.

Compared to the Droid 3, it has double the RAM, at 1 GB, to keep the phone running smoothly, and a 1.2 GHz dual-core processor instead of 1 GHz. The Droid 4 is a bit thinner than the old model, coming in just under a half-inch thick, and it borrows some design elements from the Droid RAZR.

But the Droid 4's biggest new feature -- and, presumably, the reason Verizon is pushing the phone out so 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 launching 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, known as Ice Cream Sandwich, eventually. Motorola's bringing along its usual software tweaks, including “Smart Actions” that can preserve battery life by automatically adjusting settings. The Droid 4 will also support Motorola's Lapdock 500, a laptop-like accessory that runs a full Web browser, powered entirely by the phone.

To coincide with the launch, Verizon is bringing back the double data promotion that it made available for 4G phone buyers last year. So users who get a $30, 2 GB plan will get 4 GB instead, and so on. The carrier will also run a buy one, get one free promotion on the Droid Razr and Droid Razr Maxx starting Friday, so Motorola-loving couples will want to hold off on buying new hardware until then.

Hit up droiddoes.com for specs.

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That !! looks official. I wish I had VZW Sprint and they're wack[..] QWERTY keyboard android phones

Last good qwerty we got was the Epic 4G and Im still holding on to mine I got on day 1. Everything they put out after that has be insulting

I had that phone when it launched but the lack of software updates made me ditch it. I'm on my fifth sprint phone and i ain't even eligible for an upgrade yet.

i still have a upgrade i aint used in years an
on my 4th phone Evo 3D...i get them discontinued replacements LOL

Any phone dropping in 2012 without ICS from launch is DOA to me.

These !!s drop a new Droid every month

^^^^this

Might look getting this eventually. I love my keyboard and at 199.99 that's nice

200 bucks? Plus my 50 dollars upgrade? And my 30 dollars loyalty credit? Plus 50 bucks off best buy? Hmmm droid 4 for 70 bucks???

No ics? Not getting it.

I'm getting it. ICS is coming and to be honest ICS is maybe a 1% reason to buy a phone. Hate that it has a non removable battery, but it has everything else I want and then some more. i was not gonna buy it because I was reading all these biased reviews online, then I actually used it in the store and it just made me see that how one sided most of these reviews are. "o it's so heavy", that !! is 6.5 oz. If you whining about 6.5 oz you need to hit the gym. I heard all the bad talk about the screen, ive used it in direct sunlight and it was good to great to me. And it seems like ppl dont realize that you cut the 4g off. Why do you have 4g on all day. You know your battery life is limited, why do you have 4g on all day?

Lol !!!!!!!!!!

if this lined up with my upgrade i might have gotten it. i love my g-nex, but i do miss having a a keyboard on my OG droid.

This has non removal battery?? Def not coppin. Those r tracker/microphone phones. They're on when they're off

dude every phone has that in it regardless of whether it has a removable or non removable battery. you ever wonder how you can still call 911 even when you don't have signal or the phone account has been closed? If that's you're reason for not getting it you should find another.

True, but if u remove the battery u can't have ur phone used against u which is why I require a removal battery in the first place

call me a conspiracy theorist, but I think they've already gotten past that issue where they still can trck u.

*waits for unlocked gsm version of this phone*

Damn. What the hell are you doing all day? Frank Lucas type stuff?