Like many FT folks, I'm a US Verizon customer, and have been for years. Also like many FT folks, I travel a bunch internationally. That's a fundamental problem with Verizon as they operate on US CDMA networks, but they've always offered several phone options with CDMA/GSM dual radios for international travel.
However they've never offered a 4G LTE phone that'll work abroad....until now perhaps. The soon-to-be-released Droid 4
looks like it has a GSM radio in it, and
Verizon will be turning on Global roaming on the phones later this year after they fix a "network issue".
Additionally, Verizon LTE phones use SIM cards, but as far as I can tell, this is the only one that would have a GSM radio in it as well.
Any thoughts on if this phone will play nice on foreign GSM or LTE networks? Will International Pre-Paid SIMs will work in this thing?
I suppose we'll learn more about this phone as its released, but I just thought this might be a nifty option for those of us who have been looking for a Verizon 4G phone to use in the US that they can take with them on the road.