In the scheme of things in the smartphone market, handsets do not stay on the shelves forever. Newer devices come along and a carrier needs the shelf space for the new blood, so to speak. So what does a carrier do? A carrier can simply put a handset on EOL status which simply means that the said handset will no longer be available in the shelves of the wireless provider. Such is the case of the Verizon version of the Samsung Galaxy Nexus which has reportedly reached its end of life with the carrier as reports from a couple of days back intimate.
However, it looks like not only the once venerable Samsung Galaxy Nexus reaching its EOL with the carrier but it seems that Verizon has also slapped the EOL status onto several other devices. If you happen to be a portion of the population that prefers to do your messaging chores using a full physical QWERTY keyboard because you never got the hang of typing on a touchscreen, then this bit of new will deeply sadden you.
As it stands, Verizon has decided to put the Motorola Droid 4 on the chopping block so it is just a matter of time before this QWERTY-packing handset is gone off the shelves of Big Red for good. Which is a sad thing really because the Motorola Droid 4 not only makes your messaging life a whole lot easier but it also comes with impressive components under the hood along with the customary bells and whistles found in a very capable handset.
If you have passed up on the Motorola Droid 4 in the past and have suddenly felt a little nostalgia for the handset, you still have the chance to get your hands on the QWERTY-packing handset. Verizon has confirmed that it wouldn’t be receiving additional shipments of the Motorola Droid 4, the final shipment of the handset is slated for February so you still have the little window of time to make that decision if you really want to make the Motorola Droid 4 your mobile weapon of choice.
As for the Motorola Droid 4, the handset reached official status when its addition to the Android lineup of Big Red was announced back in January of last year. The handset however waited another month before it finally made its debut in the shelves of Verizon for mass consumption. Under the hood, the operation of the Motorola Droid 4 is powered by a Texas Instruments OMAP4430 chipset which brings into play a dual-core 1.2 GHz ARM Cortex-A9 processor along with a full gigabyte of RAM. The storage space on board the handset comes up to 16GB but a microSD card slot in its chassis enables a user to add additional storage to the handset. Display-wise, the Motorola Droid 4 comes with a 4.0-inch TFT panel with a qHD resolution of 540 x 960 pixels while its camera department includes a rear 8MP shooter and a front 1.3MP snapper.
