Motorola Droid 4: In today’s smartphone world, the market is dominated by handsets with full touchscreen displays while there are only a couple devices that pack a full physical QWERTY keyboard in their respective frames. If you happen to be a part of the portion of the population that never got the hang of doing your messaging chores, be it typing an SMS or composing an email, on a full touchscreen device, you will find yourself in a jam when looking for a handset that comes with top-of-the-line specs while packing a keyboard to make messaging life easier for you.
Buy the Motorola Droid 4 starting at $99.
But if you happen to have Verizon for your wireless provider of choice, your life is a lot easier because the carrier is currently offering the Motorola Droid 4 which also happens to be its best Android-powered smartphone with a keyboard. Aside from that, the handset also has components under the hood that are at par with other high-end superphones WITHOUT keyboards from the competition.
If you are interested in getting one of these babies for yourself, the Motorola Droid 4 is being sold by Verizon for $199.99 but you have to sign a new two-year contract with the carrier to take advantage of the handset at its carrier-subsidized price. However, if you want to maximize your savings, it is best that you purchase the Motorola Droid 4 instead form select Verizon authorized retailers offering the handset for only $99.99 for new customers and $149.99 for upgraders, thereby saving you some moolah in the process. Of course, the requisite two-year agreement is part of the package here.
We also have the specs sheet of the Motorola Droid 4 coming right up to give you an idea what else the Motorola Droid 4 brings to the table aside from its nifty slide-out physical QWERTY keyboard so read on.
The Motorola Droid 4 was announced by Motorola and Verizon at CES 2012 last January and the handset immediately went on sale last month. Despite packing a slide-out QWERTY keyboard in its chassis, the Motorola Droid 4 has a slim profile in a frame that measures 127 x 67.3 x 12.7 mm although the handset is a bit hefty at 178.9 grams for the obvious reasons.
Under the hood, the Motorola Droid 4 is just as powerful as the high-end devices of the comepetition wherein its Android 2.3 Gingerbread operating system is powered by the handset’s Texas Instruments OMAP4430 chipset. The device also boasts of dual-core capabilities courtesy of its ARM Cortex-A9 processor clocked at 1.2 GHz which is in turn supported by a full gigabyte of RAM. The handset also comes with 16GB of onboard storage which is also expandable by using the dedicated microSD card slot of the handset. Display-wise, the Motorola Droid 4 comes with a 4.0-inch TFT capacitive panel with a qHD resolution of 540 x 960 pixels while its camera department boasts of an 8MP camera in its back panel and a 1.3MP video call webcam out front.
Given this kind of components under the hood and the fact that the handset comes with a physical keyboard in its frame, you can already say goodbye to your messaging woes with the Motorola Droid 4 which you can get from online retailers for only $99.99 with a new two-year contract with Verizon. Buy the Motorola Droid 4 starting at $99.