Cast off your BlackBerry for good. If you’ve been watchful for a no-compromises, keyboarded super-phone, a Droid 4 ($199 with two-year contract) is for you. It blows divided a competing smartphones, many particularly with a glorious QWERTY keyboard. It’s not usually a Editors’ Choice for keyboarded phones on Verizon, it’s a best keyboard we’ve seen on any phone, on any carrier.

Physical Design, Call Quality and Internet
Like many Android phones these days, a Motorola Droid 4 is a flattering vast chunk during 5 by 2.7 by 0.5 inches (HWD) and a vast 6.3 ounces, thickened by a vast battery and that positively pleasant slide-out keyboard. Carrying a Droid 4 is going to import down your pocket, no doubt about it, though it’s value it.

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The arrangement is a 4-inch, 960-by-540 LCD panel. Its colors are reduction jam-packed than you’ll see on a Motorola Droid Razr Maxx’s ($299.99, 4.5 stars) Super Amoled Advanced screen, though a Droid 4 is splendid and pointy adequate for indoor or outside use.

And oh, that keyboard! The five-row rubber keypad is a best I’ve ever encountered on a phone of this kind. The keys are well-separated, splendidly tactile, and gloriously backlit. Yes, my fingers strike a tip of a keypad infrequently when typing numbers, though we didn’t find a tip quarrel of buttons formidable to form on. Like many sliders (and distinct many BlackBerries) this is really a ambidextrous keyboard. But if you’re fine with a size, this is a best one you’ll get. The phone’s behind cover peels off to exhibit a MicroSD and SIM label slots, as good as a non-removable battery.

The Droid 4 is an glorious voice phone that connects to Verizon’s CDMA Rev A and LTE networks, with no tellurian roaming. Reception was strong, and call peculiarity was really good in my tests. The earpiece and speakerphone can both get really shrill though distortion, and there’s a ton of sidetone (the thoughtfulness of your possess voice in your ear to stop we from yelling). Transmissions by a mic let by a bit of credentials noise, though not adequate to means any genuine trouble.

The phone interconnected simply with a Jawbone Era Bluetooth headset ($129, 4.5 stars), permitting for accurate voice dialing and transparent song and video sound playback. You get Bluetooth 4.0, permitting a intensity for several intelligent watches and aptness inclination to speak to a phone.

Battery life was excellent. we got an overwhelming 11 hours, 47 mins of 3G speak time on a 1,785 mAh battery. That should put a Droid 4 significantly above normal for 4G Web surfing as well. And Motorola’s Smart Actions software, that does things like optionally spin information off while you’re sleeping, helps even more. Speaking of 4G, a Droid 4 got plain speeds of around 10Mbps down on Verizon’s 4G LTE network, and a phone works as both a tethered modem and a Wi-Fi hotspot. 

With a suitable appendage dock, a Droid 4 can spin into a laptop or desktop PC, too. When plugged into a a dock, Motorola’s Webtop mode reboots a phone into a desktop verison of Linux using Firefox 8.0 with Flash, and also Android in a window. we attempted a Droid 4 with Motorola’s $49.99 HD Dock and $249.99 Lapdock 100. The shade picture looked a bit soothing on a Lapdock 100, though we was means to do my desktop computing on a bigger laptop keyboard.

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Motorola Droid 4 (Verizon Wireless)