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The site says "Designed for use and service in Europe only.", but regardless of what it was designed for does it work with any North American carriers?
by bch 11y ago
The site says "Designed for use and service in Europe only.", but regardless of what it was designed for does it work with any North American carriers?
- digi_owl 11y agohttp://shop.fairphone.com/fairphone2.html#technical-specifications http://shop.fairphone.com/fairphone2.html#technical-specific... That lists the various bands for the mobile radios.
- bch 11y agoI saw that, but it's strange that they'd make it w/ a capable quad-band radio and -still- declare it's only designed for Europe. I'm not a cellular expert -- are there other considerations outside the frequencies that it supports ? If not, it seems like a good global phone, no ?
- mschuster91 11y agoI can imagine concerns with stuff like allowed WiFi bands...
- digi_owl 11y agoGSM quad band, UMTS and LTE seem Europe only. So getting anything more than EDGE in USA seem out of the question. In this day and age i suspect finding GSM radios that are not quad band are rare to say the least. Never mind that this phone is unlikely to ever be sold with a carrier subsidy, as it will be damn hard to lock in something that can have its SoC assembly replaced by removing a few screws (and ship with the required screwdriver).