Droid 4 Announced By Verizon At CES 2012

Verizon on Monday took the Motorola Droid 4 smartphone off the leash ahead of the Consumer Electronics Show in Las Vegas.

This fourth-generation Droid smartphone will be available for use on Verizon's 4G LTE network. According to a spec sheet published by GDGT, the device will run Google's Android 2.3 OS (aka Gingerbread) and will feature a 4-inch screen with a resolution of 960x540 pixels, a slide-out LEd-lit QWERTY keyboard, a front-facing webcam and an 8-megapixel rear-facing webcam that can record 1,080p video.

The Droid 4 will be built around a 1.2GHz CPU powered by 1GB of RAM. As for storage space, the phone is packing up to 16GB, plus room for a 32GB microSD card.

Engadget has posted a press release promising that the half-inch-thick device will receive an upgrade from Gingerbread to Ice Cream Sandwich, though there were no details on an exact date. Nor were an official price or release date given, although Verizon's promised the Droid 4 will be available in Verizon stores and online "in the coming weeks."

Some have already begun to guess at how much the Droid 4 will cost. SlashGear, for example, postulates that the device will be priced around $250 when it finally does go on sale.

Verizon and Motorola in November announced the Droid RAZR smartphone, which is similar in shape to the Droid 4 but is much slimmer, measuring just over 7mm thick. At its debut, the Razr was touted as the thinnest device in its class; however, Huawei's Ascend P1 S, announced on the same day as the Droid 4, has recently usurped the RAZR as the "world's slimmest smartphone." The Ascend measures 6.68 mm thick.

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Comments

[Steven Travis]

11:00 AM on 01/11/2012

"the device will run Google's Android 2.3 OS"

Um yeah, whatever. Still no 4.0 OS for the new devices? Reallyl?

[teribithia]

10:10 PM on 01/10/2012

Some have already begun to guess at how much the Droid 4 will cost. SlashGear, for example, postulates that the device will be priced around $250 when it finally does go on sale.

As I have heard of that : there too many apps can not support the Android 4 now. Hope the verizon Droid 4 do not drop the verizon 8 's popularity.

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[Steven Travis]

11:01 AM on 01/11/2012

What? You mean Android 4.0 doesn't support older apps? Well that's just plain stupid.

[sdavidweaver]

08:47 PM on 01/10/2012

Hate to say it, but this thing is UGLY. Look at that hideous, huge 'enter' button right of the keyboard. UGH, looks like something from the 1950's...

[nomac]

08:10 AM on 01/10/2012

if your getting a phone this year...you might as well wait for the quad cores

[ProperGanda]

07:37 AM on 01/10/2012

Doing my typical scan through the article, i see "Slimmest" then I see a physical keyboard in the video. Great! I love physical keyboards. But wait, thats from the original Droid.
Oh well.

[DavidET]

03:33 AM on 01/10/2012

Milestone is a piece of junk comparing to its rivals. I have owned one for more than a year and has been an awful experience all along and now not even working. I am switching to Samsung Galaxy Nexus i9250 GSM Unlocked 16GB Android 4.0 . Good Bye Motorola !

[slaughterhousejazz]

02:36 AM on 01/10/2012

I like physical keyboards, but I have been told I am a complete f ucko. What do I know, and what do you care?

[ILoveGreatDanes]

04:29 AM on 01/10/2012

I completely agree, slaughterhouse. I text much faster with a physical keyboard, and texting is a major purpose of my phone. Swype sucks, IMO. Verizon charges so much for their Droids you can buy a very decked out laptop for that price. The $250 or $300 is for a phone with a two year contract. They're $900 without the contract! I don't do the contract ball and chain anymore. I paid $300 cash for my TMobile smartphone and $50 all you can eat prepaid plan.

[RecreationalPilot]

01:32 AM on 01/10/2012

They present a phone at CES that's already a year behind the Samsung Galaxy S II?

[nanachucky8]

01:27 AM on 01/10/2012

Looks just like the first Droid.

[gg s]

02:22 AM on 01/10/2012

If you're referring to the video, it is the first Droid. Not sure why that's useful. The photo at the top of the article is the Droid 4.

[nanachucky8]

03:32 AM on 01/10/2012

Thanks!