Ken, I have subsequently learned that those specs did not make it to the final product. Looks like it was an early projection. I'm wondering if the World Version will be a new release in six months from now.

 

I am still a few months away. It appears that the hardware necessary is in the phone, now it's up to V to allow it in their version of Android.

 

It gives you time to check it out I suppose. The phone is "big" by current standards. The size does not bother me, but several people I have showed it to commented on the size (in a negative way).

 

I have a droid 2, and it's not necessarily big (screen size) by today's standards, but it is heavy, so I am a bit used to it.

 

Yes, this is also heavy. When I picked itup, they did not have a holster for it. I know those are out of fashion, but I don;t really care. I never stopped weariing my BB on my belt and will do the same with the Droid once I get a holster. those who just like to carry it in their pockets may find it a bit too heavy.

 

Update. I love the Droid 4. I wish I got a Droid years ago. I actually resent my BB now.

 

hey bill,
is the love still there?

 

Yes it is, Jerry and I have very few quibbles. But in this day and age, I find people bitch about just about everything, so here are some of the things you may not like about the Droid 4.

1. Weight. The slide out keyboard makes the Droid 4 heavier than other phones of similar screen size.

2. Keyboard programing. You are limited as to how you can program the keyboard. On my BB I could hold down a letter and it would capitalize. That does not seem to be available on the Droid.

3. Good for Enterprise. This is not really a fault of the phone. It is the program that I need in order to get my work e-mails. I would need to use Good with an i-phone also, so take this comment for what it is worth. Anyway, Good works differently than BB. You do not get the emails quite as fast. If you notice that no new messages have shown up for a bit, you can tell it to send and receive now and that seems to give it a kick in the butt most of the time. Bottom line is that BB still has a slight edge in work e-mails, but not by enough to bother me and the BB did everything else very poorly.

4. Power usage. It is easy to kill your battery in less than a day if you use certain apps and leave them on. For example, the GPS uses lots of power even if you are not using GPS at the moment. The same is true of Wifi. Even if you are not connected to a wifi network, it always seems to be looking for one. I finally shut off wi-fi and GPS and that really extended the battery charge life. Now I can easily get through the day on a single charge. If I need wifi or gps I can just turn them back on with a couple of touches of the screen. This is important because the Droid 4 battery cannot be switched out by the user so you can't just carry another battery around. I have a number of different chargers from my old BB that work with the Droid so I can recharge the battery pretty much wherever I go.

I find these issues to be inconsequential, but I list them in case they are important to others.

 

I feel the same way. I have my Galaxy Nexus for just about two months now and I I love it. I too wonder why I stuck with Blackberry so long.

My only quibble is that there is no easy way to clean out the email trash folder. You have to check each email individually. This wasn't the case in previous android operating systems, but it's the one fault I've found with Ice Cream Sandwich.

 

I don't think I have ICS yet Rob. When my phone came out, they said ICS would be available soon through a download. I'm going to take a look at my trash folder and see how easy it is to empty.