Nice... very nice. 

Cast off your BlackBerry for good. If you've been waiting for a no-compromises, keyboarded super-phone, the Droid 4 ($199 with two-year contract) is for you. It blows away its competing smartphones, most notably with its excellent QWERTY keyboard. It's not only our Editors' Choice for keyboarded phones on Verizon, it's the best keyboard we've seen on any phone, on any carrier.

Physical Design, Call Quality and Internet
Like most Android phones these days, the Motorola Droid 4 is a pretty large slab at 5 by 2.7 by 0.5 inches (HWD) and a hefty 6.3 ounces, thickened by a large battery and that absolutely delightful slide-out keyboard. Carrying a Droid 4 is going to weigh down your pocket, no question about it, but it's worth it. 

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YES! I'm-a-gonna be getting me some... yepper!

A free Android app has no downside. Simply download it, try it out and – if you don’t like it – download another. But which free apps among the many are really the best? You’ve’ come to the right place. Save yourself some time and peruse this list – and then start downloading!

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Um... yea... not me... well... okay.... maybe from time to time. Well... I have the time to answer some questions in there.

We know where some of you are reading this.

A recently released survey of the mobile phone habits of Americans, going where few other surveys care to go, has found that 75 percent of the populace have used their mobile devices while on the toilet. Among those aged 28 to 35, the figure is 91 percent.

The survey of 1,000 people by the marketing agency 11mark found that private contemplation has given way to toilet-time talking, texting, shopping, using apps, or just surfing the Web, by both sexes and most ages. Among those 65 and older, however, only 47 percent have used their mobile devices on the toilet.

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Uh-Oh... this is crazy... 

HTC acknowledged a vulnerability Thursday that can expose a user's Wi-Fi password and SSID to a malicious application running on the phone.

HTC also said that a fix for the vulnerability has already been pushed to several phones, although others will need to be manually updated. HTC said that more details on the update would be available next week.

HTC representatives were unable to be reached at press time to comment on which phones had been patched, which had not, and when those patches would be forthcoming.

Security architects Chris Hessing and Bret Jordan were credited with the vulnerability, which was published on the US-CERT Web site on Thursday. 

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