Samsung Stratosphere makes its obligatory FCC visit, confirms membership in Verizon’s LTE club

We know, the image above is hardly as detailed as the ones we glanced at this morning, but it has its measure of significance nonetheless. It’s a rough diagram of the Samsung SCH-i405 — a phone known to us as the Stratosphere — as it appears in FCC filings approved today. The documents’ mention of LTE band 13 (as well as CDMA / EVDO) seems to confirm rumors that suggest the aforementioned device will be coming to Verizon’s 4G network, likely sooner rather than later. If you’ve been eager to see an Epic 4G-esque QWERTY slider on the largest carrier in the US, this will be your golden opportunity. Of course, this may prove to be a drop in the bucket when compared to an impending flood of even more tempting handsets . Samsung Stratosphere makes its obligatory FCC visit, confirms membership in Verizon’s LTE club originally appeared on Engadget on Tue, 06 Sep 2011 23:04:00 EDT. Please see our terms for use of feeds . Permalink

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