Future proofing is not very realistic when it comes to phones unfortunately. The contract model really encourages all the worst aspects of planned obsolescence. When they finally agree upon a standard and roll out VoLTE, I seriously doubt the networks will provide updates to people's phones so that their voice services run over it and they no longer drain battery life with their GSM/CDMA components. They'd much rather you get a new phone and get locked in to another contract.<br>

<div class="gmail_extra"><br><br><div class="gmail_quote">On Sat, Dec 1, 2012 at 6:41 PM, Doug Vargas <span dir="ltr"><<a href="mailto:dougvargas@sbcglobal.net" target="_blank">dougvargas@sbcglobal.net</a>></span> wrote:<br>

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    Yeah very true, I sort of look at it as future proofing my phone -
    the lte may be sort of eh right now but hopefully soon it'll warrant
    having a phone that supports it properly. still, wicked device<div><div class="h5"><br>
    <div>On 12/01/2012 06:28 PM, Christopher
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    <blockquote type="cite">It apparently has limited LTE abilities, but that
      aside, apparently our LTE infrastructure is so lame and HSPA+ is
      so good, that in terms of bandwidth numbers you actually can
      achieve, there isn't much difference. I'm starting to wonder if
      the smart thing to do isn't to wait for phones/networks with pure
      LTE services, which is 1+ years away.<br>
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      Either way, for hacking purposes, LTE doesn't really matter.<br>
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        <div class="gmail_quote">On Sat, Dec 1, 2012 at 5:52 PM, Doug
          Vargas <span dir="ltr"><<a href="mailto:dougvargas@sbcglobal.net" target="_blank">dougvargas@sbcglobal.net</a>></span>
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              lte...the horror lol
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                    <div>Gotta say, the Nexus 4 I'm patiently waiting
                      for seems like about as close as you can come to
                      an ideal smartphone for software hacking,
                      particularly if you like Android.<br>
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                      On Dec 1, 2012, at 3:09 PM, matti <<a href="mailto:mathew_2000@yahoo.com" target="_blank">mathew_2000@yahoo.com</a>>
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                            thought this maybe of interest to android
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