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Motorola Droid 4 XT894 review: 2012 last great QWERTY Droid.

Item: Motorola Droid 4 XT894
Rating: 72
Author: SpecEagle Editorial

SpecEagle Editorial·Feb 2012·$200

Overall

72/100

Class rank

#1 of 31

Tier

Mid-Range

Buy?

At the right price

The verdict, up front

Droid 4 XT894.

Motorola's 2012 Droid 4 was the last great QWERTY slider Droid — added LTE + Webtop dock for Verizon.

01Display

74/100

74/100 — right at the average for mid-range phones of 2012.

TypeqHD TFT

Size4.0"

Resolution540 x 960

02Performance

74/100

At 74/100 this is one of the strongest performance showings among mid-range phones of 2012 — 9 points above the cohort average.

ChipsetTI OMAP 4430

CPU1.2 GHz dual Cortex-A9

RAM1 GB

03Camera

70/100

70/100 puts it above the 66-point average for mid-range phones of 2012.

Main8 MP AF + LED

Front1.3 MP

04Battery

74/100

74/100 puts it above the 71-point average for mid-range phones of 2012.

Capacity1,785 mAh

05Software

70/100

70/100 puts it above the 67-point average for mid-range phones of 2012.

What works

LTE on QWERTY slider.
1 GB RAM.
1.2 GHz dual.
Lapdock Webtop.

What doesn't

Gingerbread at launch.
Last QWERTY Droid.
179 g heavy.
Sealed battery 1,785 mAh.

Cross-shop it against

HTC Desire S

$450 · score 72/100

How this review is built: every section score, spec row and comparison on this page comes from SpecEagle's tracked catalogue — scores weight measured specs against the 31-phone cohort of mid-range devices released around the same time. We don't publish invented lab anecdotes. Spot an error? .