It looks like the Motorola Droid 4 – the phone that Moto labeled as “the thinnest and lightest LTE QWERTY phone” – could be available next week. According to this report at Droid Life, sources said that Verizon will be launching the Droid 4 on February 9.
Verizon has just chopped $100 off the Motorola Droid RAZR’s price, dropping it down to a more normal $200 with a two-year contract. You basically get the same phone, but without the bundled 16GB microSD card that it originally comes packaged with, leaving you with 16GB of internal storage and an empty card slot.
Verizon has announced that they’ll be slashing $100 off the price of the Motorola Droid 3, only a few months after it debuted on the carrier with a $199 price tag (with a two-year contract). You could take that bit of news two ways: it’s either they’re clearing stock for the upcoming Droid 4, which means that you could be picking up an older model with a two-year contract, or you could think of it as a chance to pick up a phone that’s barely half-a-year old (it was just released in July) for half the price.
A couple of months after it was first revealed in a number of leaks, Motorola finally made the Droid 4 official. Thanks to the leaked specs and details, nothing here comes as much of a surprise anymore, but at least we finally get a confirmation. If you didn’t catch the leaked spec sheet back in late November, the Motorola Droid 4 is a four-inch, Android-based smartphone that features 4G LTE connectivity and a slide-out QWERTY keyboard.
Motorola has started taking orders for the Wi-fi version of their Xyboard tablets, which include an 8.2-incher and a 10.1-incher in both 16GB and 32GB capacities. They’re basically the same as the Droid Xyboard that’s headed for Verizon, but without the carrier’s Droid branding (or a way of connecting to the carrier’s mobile data network). They’re listed to cost less though, with the 8.2-inch 16GB tablet costing $399.99, and the 10.1-inch 16GB model priced at $499.99. Upgrading to the 32GB models adds $100 to the price.
