well after verizon tried to be hard asses for 20 minutes and tried high pressure sales on their stupid edge program, they caved in and gave me the early upgrade. so i went ahead and picked up the s4, so far its pretty nice but i have not really messed with it much, i will be ordering the zerolemon battery, so i dont have to worry much about battery life.
they really do try hard to sell you anything and everything in there, just have to be very persistent, even when the manager comes over and tries to hard sell you on a case lol
thanks everyone for your inputs, now if anyone has suggestions as to how to get the one app i have off my old phone and onto the new one please let me know. remember i only have about a 45second time window but can transfer files pretty quickly through usb