[Fire30]

Yeah me too. I really think I am going to switch to T-Mobile so I can have this phone. Fortunately, I live near D.C. and don't travel much so I coverage shouldn't be an issue. It's just annoying how Verizon won't let a phone that gets updates straight from Google on its network.

[jfoutz]

Isn't verizon all CMDA? I thought the deal was all the Google phones were GSM. Haven't looked to closely at that recently though, they might all be universal.

[elq]

LTE is based on GSM.

The specs found in FCC docs for what is believed to be this phone suggests that the phone contains radios that support the Sprint network which is CDMA, but does not support the Verizon LTE band.

Perhaps in the not so distant future VoLTE will be common and phones will be, conceptually at least, portal across any network.

[chimeracoder]

Verizon's LTE is GSM-based.

Futhermore, the Nexus 5 is rumored to be coming out on Sprint (though definitely not Verizon).

The reason Verizon is getting passed up for two Nexus devices in a row (and probably will continue to be passed over indefinitely) is not because they are a CDMA carrier, but because of they way they mishandled the Galaxy Nexus.

In essence, Verizon doesn't want to allow phones on their network without Verizon controlling them, installing bloatware on them, etc. Verizon insisted on handling the updates for the Galaxy Nexus, and these were a joke; the Verizon GN is still not up-to-date with the most recent version of Android, last I heard[0].

And because they're a CDMA carrier, they can easily prevent phones from being used on their network.

[0] I have one, but I use Cyanogenmod so I can get timely updates.