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Android phones, I'll be able to use a 4G SIM card with?

Whoah... back up... "4G SIM card"?!?

Unless there's a working LTE network in revenue service somewhere, I don't think there IS such a thing as a "4G SIM card" available today. Unless I missed it in the spec sheet, Sprint's 4G phones are every bit as permanently hardwired to a single IMEI as every other phone they've ever sold. Unless Legacy Clearwire equipment had SIM(-like?) cards of their own, perhaps?
 
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Whoah... back up... "4G SIM card"?!?

Unless there's a working LTE network in revenue service somewhere, I don't think there IS such a thing as a "4G SIM card" available today. Unless I missed it in the spec sheet, Sprint's 4G phones are every bit as permanently hardwired to a single IMEI as every other phone they've ever sold. Unless Legacy Clearwire equipment had SIM(-like?) cards of their own, perhaps?


Good point, I missed the "SIM Card" part.
 
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Whoah... back up... "4G SIM card"?!?

Unless there's a working LTE network in revenue service somewhere, I don't think there IS such a thing as a "4G SIM card" available today. Unless I missed it in the spec sheet, Sprint's 4G phones are every bit as permanently hardwired to a single IMEI as every other phone they've ever sold. Unless Legacy Clearwire equipment had SIM(-like?) cards of their own, perhaps?


Engadget posted some photos on the Verizon LTE 4G Sim cards. They will be going into broadband and pre-paid MIFI modems. Phones don't have them yet but the SIMS are definitely coming very soon. October time-frame from what I gather.

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