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I'm guessing international support will also be limited.
by russdill 8y ago
I'm guessing international support will also be limited.
- Someone1234 8y agoThat's a very good point. I'd imagine that it has to be since other handsets won't know which network to connect to in order to get Fi service.
- pmlamotte 8y agoFWIW, I successfully used my unofficially supported Galaxy S9 in India. I did hit one snag, which is that I had bought the phone prior to going on the trip and hadn't installed the Project Fi app yet which meant I couldn't connect to any network after landing. Once I got on wifi and installed the app, I had 4G during my entire stay even in the most rural areas on overnight trains and no issues. Though had I bothered to go through the whole passport photo/scan 24hr submission process for Airtel it would have been way cheaper.
- russdill 8y agoWhen I brought my Samsung S7 with a Fi data sim to Korea, it worked fine. When I brought it to Japan, nothing. My Nexus 5X worked great in both places.
- keerthiko 8y agoI believe that's because there US S7 doesn't have the LTE receiver for the data band used in Japan, whereas the 5X does and not the issue of the Fi SIM. I bet if you got an S7 from Japan it would have worked fine
- vinay427 8y agoNo, it shouldn't, and I hope Google isn't lazy enough to add an unnecessary limitation. T-Mobile's very similar roaming (which Google's seems to be based off of) works fine with unlocked non-T-Mobile branded phones.
- mayneack 8y agoMy international use on fi over the last couple years has been almost entirely on t-mobile, so it might not matter much in practice.
- dmoy 8y agoiPhone on fi worked internationally ~2 years ago or whatever. So, probably better now?
- MatthewMcDonald 8y agoI'm not sure if it would have been better on a supported phone, but in the past year I've had good coverage with an iPhone SE on Fi in New Zealand, Switzerland, Germany, and Austria.