This morning, Sprint announced the addition of 22 new cities to their still-growing 4G LTE network. On top of that, Sprint also gave some insight into the markets they are looking to light up in the following months. In comparison, Sprint certainly has quite the ways to go before it can compete with Verizon and AT&T, but for anyone that is on Sprint, this is all good news. 

According to a report out of Reuters, Samsung CEO JK Shin confirmed in an interview that his company will sell a new version of the Galaxy S4 that supports LTE Advanced within the next month in Korea. He also mentioned that he was in talks with “several overseas” carriers to take on the phone, but would not specifically name any. So, the phone isn’t coming to the U.S. at this time. 

After the FCC filing for the new Nexus 7 became public this morning, the device as model number K009 has been the talk of tech world (well, outside of Kanye’s album leaking early). A Bluetooth SIG filing for it was discovered, plus most of the specs for the new 7-inch Google slate have all but been confirmed now, including LTE support. And speaking of LTE support, while doing some extra digging in the FCC report, Brian Klug of Anandtech discovered something that we haven’t seen often if ever in a new tablet or smartphone. We’re talking multi-band LTE support for Verizon, AT&T, and T-Mobile. 

Towards the end of May, AT&T updated their GoPhone support pages to include a mention of 4G LTE access for their prepaid wireless plans. Up until that point, no prepaid plan in the U.S. could access any LTE network from AT&T’s to Verizon’s, so the news was exciting. Today, AT&T made it all official. GoPhone with LTE access goes live June 21 along with some new plans. 

Here it comes, the Nexus 7 refresh. After months of speculation that it would arrive anywhere from Google I/O to July, the device finally stopped by the FCC, making it somewhat official. And thanks to the filing from the FCC, we know a lot about the device, including the processor, the fact that it has a rear camera, and that there will be LTE on board. 

AT&T announced this morning that they will exclusively carry the Samsung Galaxy Note 8.0 with LTE here in the U.S. at some point in the coming weeks. Yes, another “exclusive” for AT&T. Oh how we love limiting consumer choices! (/s.) 

This week, AT&T continues their quickly-paced roll out of more 4G LTE markets in America. The company has been lighting up markets left and right, showing no signs of stopping until they blanket their current 3G network with glorious 4G LTE. Verizon is pretty much wrapped up with their roll out of LTE, while Sprint and T-Mobile have basically just begun. Either way, in a few years, we can say that all four of America’s largest carriers support LTE across the country. That’s a good thing for smartphone lovers. 

Oh boy, if you had plans on picking up one of this year’s top flagship devices from either Samsung or HTC, this might change everything. /s A new press render has leaked from the ever-so-reliable @evleaks Twitter account, showing Verizon’s upcoming Casio Commando 4G LTE. As a recap, we have seen this device pictured a few times when it made a stop at the FCC. As far as we know, the device does in fact support 4G LTE, but past that not much is known in terms of specs. We know it will definitely be water and dust resistant, but probably won’t beat out any notable devices in a benchmark. But hey, that’s not the point.