Follow-up on European phones in the USA

micky · 2021-10-04T20:46:28+00:00

Follow-up on European phones in the USAThe upshot is, an expensive phone might work the same in Europe and theUSA, but a year-2019 250 dollar Android phone will not, unless you get aGlobal model. In most cases, the product description in an advertisement or webpagedoesn't say if it's Global or not. And it probably isnt'. And itdoesn't say when you buy it what bands and frequencies it can work withunless you know which submodel you're getting, and maybe not even then. And even when you're using it, the basic phone won't say what band youare using it on, but now (I don't think they used to) Network SignalInfo and Metwork Signal Info Pro will say and will give a lot of Wifiand cell tower location info also. often gives the varying bands/frequencies for differentsubmodels but not all the time. Look at the grey lines under the greenbars say Versions: SM-A305F/DS (Global); SM-A305FN/DS (Europe);SM-A305G/DS (LATAM); SM-A305GT/DS (Brazil); SM-A305GN/DS (APAC);SM-A305YN (AU/NZ) I have A305F. It seems to be Global, but you'll see in some areas Ionly got 2G when with my newer phone, I get 4G. A big difference. It lists the bands: 4G bands 1, 3, 5, 7, 8, 20, 38, 40, 41 1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 7, 8, 12, 13, 17, 20, 28, 38, 40, 41, 66But it doesn't say which bands are on which phones!! (Some entries inGSMARENA do say that. I've only looked at a few phones but this is thefirst time I noticed that it didn't.) 1 and 3 are Europe, but 2 and 4 are the most popular bands in the USA.(Not only that, but I think the last timee I looked this phone had 3 ofthe four of 1,2,3,4. Now it has either 2 or 4 of them. is the meaning of the/DS? Several guesses by posters, "DS menasDual Sim device " That seems likely. Another guy says it means global,but it couldn't becaue they are all DS including all the others, whichare specifcally for Europe, Latin America, Brazil, and "Asia andPacific". At any rate my old phone does have the F, which seems tomean something. My first Global...

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sms 5 years ago

There's a huge number of legacy IOT devices that depend on CDMA connectivity, like a lot of vehicles with OnStar. When AT&T shut down their 1x GSM network T-Mobile got some of that business, at least in areas where they had a network, though a lot of those GSM devices were in remote areas that had only AT&T GSM coverage.

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