Comments on: iFixit DROID 4 Teardown Reveals HSPA+ Radio, Motorola Conveniently Removes it From MotoDev Site

By: Joel Gautraud

Joel Gautraud — Tue, 14 Feb 2012 15:53:00 +0000

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By: Anonymous

Anonymous — Tue, 14 Feb 2012 15:16:00 +0000

I could understand why he doesn’t find interest in it. Sense 4.0 and the company that notorious for bad battery life is introducing 2 more cores of computing power. One of them is probably dedicated to running Sense.

Top that off with HTC’s hideous styling and I could see it. Just like the Rezound, this phone will have to prove to be well above it’s worth before it’s considered a good deal.

By: Josh Groff

Josh Groff — Tue, 14 Feb 2012 13:59:00 +0000

Yes, but he said nothing looked good. Pretty sure quad core+ICS is good, or I’m just really high, which I doubt.

By: Josh Groff

Josh Groff — Tue, 14 Feb 2012 13:58:00 +0000

No, but I’m pretty sure I can port it to my G2X. If not, no big deal.

By: Anonymous

Anonymous — Tue, 14 Feb 2012 13:42:00 +0000

That’s correct… it’s an evolution of W-CDMA/UMTS and is the technology chosen by the GSM Association to replace GSM – it’s 3G. But what it also is, is leaps and bounds better than 1xEVDO… and has better battery life, and better handoffs than eHRPD to the current technology chosen by the GSM Association to replace 3G — LTE.

So yes… I have hopes and dreams that maybe Verizon will entertain refarming some spectrum for HSPA+ 42 at a bare minimum. It would also assist their deteriorating voice quality. Reason being – as 2011 taught us, sometimes networks fail and an adequate fallback network would be beneficial.

By: noyfb

noyfb — Tue, 14 Feb 2012 09:11:00 +0000

“Give me a lever long enough, and a fulcrum strong enough, and single-handed I can move the world.” – Archimedes

By: noyfb

noyfb — Tue, 14 Feb 2012 09:07:00 +0000

What’s wrong, haven’t seen the Gnex pre-installed app that turns sh%t into gold

By: noyfb

noyfb — Tue, 14 Feb 2012 09:07:00 +0000

What’s wrong, haven’t seen the Gnex pre-installed app that turns sh%t into gold

By: James

James — Mon, 13 Feb 2012 23:26:00 +0000

You must have not read any of them and just went straight to comment.

By: Anonymous

Anonymous — Mon, 13 Feb 2012 22:06:00 +0000

Not sure why they wouldn’t, it worked out just fine for Apple and the iPhone. Then Moto can do what they do best by offering incremental improvements every year instead of every couple months

By: Anonymous

Anonymous — Mon, 13 Feb 2012 22:02:00 +0000

Couldn’t he just do that with his GNex?

By: CCat

CCat — Mon, 13 Feb 2012 21:42:00 +0000

I love how some people do absolutely NO research before making a post and give out misinformation. I did my research, and this is what I cam across:

Both the DROID 4 and LG Spectrum that were announced this week at CES have global radios inside, but because of a network issue, they are not active. To this point, none of Verizon’s LTE phones have active global roaming, however, that is about to change according to VZW spokesperson Brenda Raney: ”The LTE phones work globally in over 40 countries that currently use CDMA technology…. For the new LTE phones to provide global roaming voice and data in non-CDMA countries, we are working on a few network enhancements so we can provide customers with the best voice and data roaming experience. We anticipate this capability to be available this year, likely the first half of the year.”Apparently, the Droid 4 is ALREADY a “world phone.” It’s just that Verizon has yet to enable global roaming capabilities. Does anyone have evidence claiming otherwise? Please share…

By: Butters619

Butters619 — Mon, 13 Feb 2012 21:33:00 +0000

I would buy the XT928 if it wasn’t so damn expensive.

By: Martin Jofre

Martin Jofre — Mon, 13 Feb 2012 21:29:00 +0000

I don’t want to be discouraging, but I really doubt it will happen, only the chinese versions of the Motorola phones come out with different (bumped) specs (Say RAZR versions MT917 & XT928).
I see it this way… companies know that they can create the best phone ever… adding more RAM, HD screen, awesome keyboard, huge battery, Quad Core processor… but if you buy that phone… how long would you have to wait to replace it, you can live 3 years with a phone like that nowadays… So they just put a lot of great features and leave behind a couple of them, so when the new Droid 5 with HD screen comes out in 6 to 12 months, you’ll want to change it…
Douchebag Cell Phone Vendors… :p

By: Seannyboy39

Seannyboy39 — Mon, 13 Feb 2012 21:20:00 +0000

You took the words right out of my mouth.