Nexus 4 Includes Support For LTE

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One of the drawbacks of Google's Nexus 4 was its lack of support for 4G LTE. Now comes a report from AnandTech that it's possible to enable partial LTE support on the device. It seems that a simple software update can allow the Nexus 4 smartphone to run on LTE Band 4 (http://www.anandtech.com/show/6474/nexus-4-includes-support-for-lte-on-band-4-aws). All users have to do is dial *#*#4636#*#* (INFO) or launch the Phone Info app. After that, choosing to connect to AWS networks should allow the Nexus 4 to run on LTE networks on Band 4 (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/E-UTRA#Frequency_bands_and_channel_bandwidths). The AnandTech report states explicitly that the LG Nexus 4 only works on LTE Band 4, on 1700/2100MHz frequencies, and supports bandwidths of 5,10, and 20MHz.

http://hardware.slashdot.org/story/12/11/24/2229214/nexus-4-includes-support-for-lte