Well I got my hands on a Droid 4 through work, and so far I love this phone. It's way faster/snappier than my old Droid 2 Global. Plus this is probably the best QWERTY keyboard I've ever used on a phone.
Of note to this thread: One of the first things I did was take a look at the SIM settings, and it looks like the SIM comes unlocked out of the box.
Now we just need someone from FT to take this thing abroad and see if they can just pop in a third-party SIM.
So that'll take what....72, 96 hours?