Thanks for the link - I had not seen it. I'm happy that it will be thicker and hopefully have a better battery. Hopefully not too much thicker.
Here is the story from the link...
We got it straight from the horse's mouth here at Samsung and Google's
Galaxy Nexus launch event that the future LTE edition of the Galaxy Nexus will indeed be thicker than the HSPA+ model showcased today (and above). How much thicker? "A little," according to a company representative, but he wouldn't go so far as to talk millimeters. When asked if the additional size was there to hold the LTE package or just a larger battery, he also failed to elaborate. We'd be shocked if the LTE variant doesn't pack at least a bit more juice -- we've covered
the damage that LTE does to a battery
in great detail here -- but frankly, we'd rather have something a wee bit thicker than a phone that dies after four hours of use.