In case you hadn’t heard, the Motorola DROID 4 was released today. If you were considering picking up this device, you may want to look at Amazon Wireless before going to Verizon. Amazon is continually undercutting Verizon’s device prices and the DROID 4 is getting the same treatment.

Laaaaaaaaaaadies and Gentlemen, welcome to Friday Night Fights, a new series of weekly deathmatches between two no-mercy brawlers who will fight to the death — or at least agree to disagree — about which is better: Apple or Google, iOS or Android?

After this week’s topic, someone’s going to be spitting teeth. Our question: What’s Better For App Stores, Walled Garden Or Open? Apple vets every app released on the iOS and Mac App Stores, but Google lets anything in, removing apps only if they violate their terms. Which is better for developers and consumers?

In one corner, we have the 900 pound gorilla, Cult of Mac; in the opposite corner, wearing the green trunks, we have the plucky upstart, Cult of Android!

Place your bets, gentlemen! This is going be a bloody one.

Yesterday Bloomberg got a hold of a filing that shows our favorite company may be planning to open a stand-alone retail store at its European headquarters in Dublin. According to the local planning application, the store would be open to the public and sell unspecified “Google Merchandise.” Up until now, Google has only had their one merchandise store in California, but that one is closed to the public. Other than that, Google’s only other attempt at selling products in-store has been their Chromebook store inside of a London branch of Currys and PC World.

The guys over at phoneArena.com got their hands on quite a few pics of an unannounced HTC device running Ice Cream Sandwich and HTC Sense 4.0. There’s no indication of a name for this device but the photos reveal quite a lot of other information. This mystery device appears to be a Verizon 4G LTE device as their logo can clearly be seen on the boot up screen. Other than that, specs of this device include:

Well it’s Friday, and that means the Motorola DROID 4 is now available. If you head over to Verizon Wireless you’ll be able to pick up a DROID 4 for $199 on contract or $549 without. The DROID 4 is the fourth iteration of the popular sliding QWERTY from Motorola. It’s also the first 4G LTE model and features: