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hi I'm Brian Bennett for cnet.com and today we're taking a first look at the Motorola Droid 4 available for $1.99 99 on Verizon now this phone has been eagerly anticipated by diehard keyboard fans for quite a while now that's because it essentially is what the Motorola Droid 3 should have been if you remember the Droid 3 brought dual core processing to the party but sadly lacked access to Verizon's 4G LTE data network the new Droid 4 Shores us up by boasting a faster 1.2 gigahertz dual-core CPU an excellent 5 row QWERTY keyboard and finally 4G LTE let's take a closer look at the phone so you open the Droid 4 its keyboard like this just slide it open and here we have the QWERTY keypad here which has 5 rows which is really great and it also has a dedicated number row right up the top here and the LED backlit lights here surround each key as well the keys themselves feel really great so here we see the Droid fours 4 inch LCD q HD screen unfortunately it's not quite as high contrast as say an AMOLED screen but it's still pretty high-res so on front is a 1.2 megapixel camera that's capable of doing 720p video and on back is an 8 megapixel camera that's capable of doing 1080p video and there's also an LED flash here as well one thing that seems really inconvenient to me is that you have to use a special key to unlock the back battery plate so over here we have an HDMI port as well as a microUSB port and around the phone coating the whole thing making it water-resistant is a nano water-resistant coating also what's cool about the phone is that it supports optional docks that will turn it into a laptop connected to home theater systems and also let you use it like a desktop computer for more be sure to check out our full review I'm Brian Bennett at Cena comm and this has been a first look at the motor droid for from horizon