[Samsung Galaxy Nexus] ndwgs:
You will be GLAD, you got the GNex GSM, PLUS the fact you are going to a much faster speed. In seriousness, I multi task on my phone. I have my Old SGS (Vibrant/Unlocked/on ATT Straight talk sim) as my back up if my GNex is overloaded of what I'm doing. But I haven't touched it. Only for testing purposes on that ICS Rom for the old Vibrant....

But really, the speed is vewy vewy niiiiicccceeee... I do most of my office work on GNex, so downloading spreadsheets and slides or contractor files on a fast high speed, is a blessing!

Most cases? HA. It's almost all the case. I was at a job site with a bunch of contractors, and we had so much limited towers there, (mountains and boonies) and I still beat them on EDGE. Speed test wise. All are sprint (company phones).

Oh HAI! Welcome! It's not that you are excited to have the exact phone, because really... It isn't. Fast? Reliable? CDMA? Hmm... interesting. You must live on an area that is a LTE Market. Never really ventured in CDMA world, always been a AT&T (when they were actually the AT&T Giant, before their merge with Cingular), and transfered to TMo when they went US Based. Part of it because is before, both of them have "world phones, TRI-Band" (yeah i'm old, lolololol) and with work, i travel tons outside US. I bet your CDMA locked GNex wont work at all outside US. Trust me, i know someone that has tried, and switched to a GSM GNex. I'd say Hardware wise, not the same. Phone model/type, yes. Network? You may be fast, LTE, but you're locked in the US.

Hahahaha... spoiled. :P I think we all are.

Comparing apples to oranges is the same thing as comparing HSPA+ to LTE. But martonikaj has stated, the speed isn't really a factor due to the capped functionality of these giant networks. The technology might not be the same, but the output of what they deliver are all the same. Seriously, I maximize my GNex when I'm out and about to job sites. Upload this, download all this, and do apps. When I get done with how much i spend in the end of my month, i'll take a screenshot of the data widget I got from Codesplice's Setup and I really do spend so much on the internet. 4.8GB is what my average use in the internet, in about a month. That's a lot of downloading and uploading.

Besides, if a couple of seconds do matter to you in terms of what LTE does when you download apps, well, that's where it differs. LTE do pre "buffer" every single thing you do. (Please techie peeps, chime in if i'm wrong). It's like Comcast, when they say "TURBO CHARGE" they actually meant, "we are going to save a monitoring cookie in your computer that monitors what you actually do in the internet so we can automagically load what your interests are, but it will cost you a bit of harddrive space :)". Yeah. Turbo charge my *$$!

That's why it's fast. It's almost the same with HSPA+ they turbo charge as well, and accomodate your "NEEDS" to better amplify your internet experience. In reality, it's just the same "real world" speed of about (more or less) 15Mbps. Don't believe or get into the marketing schemes of the Giant Companies. They're doing that to make money.

Trust me, you being spoiled to that LTE speed isn't going to hamper down when you get into the GSM Speed. It's all the same. :D :victory: