Pathetic lack of 4G phones with no physical keyboard

I've been a Verizon customer since my first mobile phone and I was one of the first people to buy the original Droid when it launched, but the leaked news about the upcoming Droid 3 has me strongly leaning towards going with another carrier. I find it baffling that the Droid 3 would come out right now and not be 4G enabled. It hasn't even been released and it's already outdated, and yet Verizon will insist on sticking people with 2 year contracts for a phone that will never be able to connect to its fastest networks. I've yet to hear of any other 4G phone that even MIGHT come to Verizon with a physical keyboard, an absolute 100% dealbreaker for me. The loyal early adopters who jumped on the Android bandwagon and made it the juggernaut it is today come out of contract in July. We want physical keyboards and we want cutting edge phones. Where is the phone you think we're going to buy, Verizon? Because everything else I've seen is a joke.

This has been a significant frustration for me as well. I follow phones pretty closely and have kept up on all the rumors, leaks, and announcements on the various forums from BGR to droidforums and howardforums. What is killing me is that there is not so much as an obfuscated indication that Verizon will have a 4g with a physical keyboard any time in the future.
They are rolling out more and more candybar phones and there are, essentially, zero options for anyone who does not like the candybar models with only virtual keyboards. Meanwhile, the other 4g carriers all have phones out with physical keyboards. Sprint actually has at least 2 of their 4g phones with physical keyboards and have had them out for months now. Seriously, how hard is it for Verizon to get it together and diversify their offerings with something other than yet another candybar 4g phone?
The real kicker is Verizon put out the Droid 3 without 4g. Seriously. What are you guys thinking? 4g covers a huge part of the market and your only new Android phone with physical keyboard is only 3g? Was this an attempt at marketing suicide?
Those who say you don't really need a physical keyboard must not use the phone the same way many of us in professional environments with detailed and quick response demands migth use them. I have tried numerous virtual keyboards and none of them are responsive and fast enough to keep up with me. One my Droid 1, I can hammer out significantly detailed and thorough responses very quickly with little to no error. This is why so many BB users demand the physical keyboard of the BB. If the virtual keyboards were good enough, trust me, we would have switched long ago for the weight and size differences. The simple fact is no virtual keyboard is on par with a decent physical keyboard.
My contract is up in a few months, I am well into my upgrade period, and I am seriously considering switching to another carrier for 4g with a physical keyboard. I am not blowing my upgrade on a phone that will irritate the hell out of me, especially when it would mean locking into another 2-year contract with a carrier who clearly is not developing devices for professional users who prefer Android.

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Hope the devs can resolve this issue, goodluck!!
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