what i suggest is, unless you plan to go overseas or what. just get normal without lte.

Malaysia dont have lte yet, and telcos are just only planning to upgrade(not even rolling out) 4G starting 2013. and it wont be really stable to be used just yet. Even now also 3G, not the whole of Malaysia is really covered fully..
Meaning, it will take longer than just next year for us to fully enjoy 4G.

So by 1~2 years only you get a 4G phone will be more worth it compared to you get it now.

Let's say late 2013 we got 4G, you buy note 2 lte now, wasted 1 year of your phone cannot use it to it's potential and by then confirm got better phones with better specs. like Note 3 etc etc.

To be honest, malaysians now also wont really get to enjoy the full use of iphone5 and one of the main 'upgrades' of 4s to 5 is because of lte..

I have some friends who upgraded from 4s to 5. Why? I also dont know. Not like got improved functionality besides loading stuff a bit faster due to the new A6 chips and what not.. If they say screen size, can really  just for .5 inches