If you happen to have Verizon for your wireless provider and rock the carrier’s version of the Motorola Droid 4, then you know you have a very capable handset in the palm of your handset. Not only that, your mobile weapon of choice is a handset that will make your messaging life a whole lot easier because it comes with a slide-out QWERTY keyboard that is advisable for people who never got the hang of typing on a full touchscreen device.
However, that is not the only things the Motorola Droid 4 can boast of. Though the handset is already a bit aging having hit the shelves of Big Red back in February of last year, the QWERTY-packing device is expected to get a second lease at life if recent rumors about the Motorola Droid 4 pan out. As it stands, there are speculations that after the original Motorola Droid Razr Maxx and Motorola Droid Razr got upgraded to Android 4.1 Jelly Bean, the Motorola Droid 4 is said to be the next Motorola handset to get a taste of the Jelly Bean refresh.
As it stands, there are reports that invites have already been sent to users of the Motorola Droid 4 to be part of a pool of people to test an “early preview of a new software release” for the handset. Although it hasn’t been confirmed yet, there is a good chance that the software update being talked about here could very well be the much-awaited Android 4.1 Jelly Bean update for the Motorola Droid 4. After all, the manufacturer has already confirmed in the past that the Motorola Droid 4 will also get cranked up to Jelly Bean although a specific timeframe was not mentioned during the announcement.
In any case, if in case rumors of these soak test for the Jelly Bean update for the Motorola Droid 4 pans out and everything goes well, we can expect to see the update getting rolled out to the handset in just a couple of days after the soak test is concluded.
As for the Motorola Droid 4, the handset reached official status when it was unveiled back in January of 2012 but it wasn’t until February when the smartphone finally made its debut in the shelves of Big Red. Under the hood, the Motorola Droid 4 boasts of impressive components and it has its circuitry built around a Texas Instruments OMAP4430 chipset which brings into play a dual-core 1.2 GHz ARM Cortex-A9 processor and a full gigabyte of RAM. The storage space onboard the device comes up to 16GB but if this is not sufficient for your needs, the Motorola Droid 4 supports memory expansion via its dedicated microSD card slot. As for its display, the Motorola Droid 4 sports a 4.0-inch TFT capacitive multitouch panel with a qHD resolution of 540 x 960 pixels while its camera department boasts of a rear 8MP shooter and a front 1.3MP snapper.
