I think it's unfair to say that androidpolice downplays the lack of LTE support. I completely understand if this is a big issue for you. But most people do not have access to LTE networks anyways, so isn't it understandable if a reviewer does not make a big deal out of this?
Most people DO have access to LTE. Verizon's network covers 250 Million people in the US, and their 4G footprint will equal that of their 3G network by next year sometime (2013).
There are about 500 million Android devices out there and 410 million iOS devices (both numbers are from Wikipedia). We now at least from Android that most devices are smartphones equiped with a radio.
So 250 million people can not be most people. And as I read it, the number of current LTE users must be much, much lower than that, since Verizon states that it had 111.3 million customers (using LTE or not) in Q2 2012: http://news.cnet.com/8301-1035_3-57505803-94/competitive-wir... )
