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I'm going to be in Japan next week and was excited enough by the IMO gorgeous industrial design and hopefully-fast-enough mid-range specs to want to get one, ho
by lhl 12y ago
I'm going to be in Japan next week and was excited enough by the IMO gorgeous industrial design and hopefully-fast-enough mid-range specs to want to get one, however, while the Fx0 has Band 1/18 LTE, KDDI's 3G network is CDMA, not GSM/UMTS. I'vealso been told by friends that all their phones are typically locked as well. Dropped an email and it'd be great if that weren't the case and proper antenna's/baseband support was built in, but I won't get my hopes up.
There's a dedicated site/product portal for the Fx0 and it looks like they kicked off the launch w/ some hackathons last month: http://au-fx.kddi.com/ http://au-fx.kddi.com/
- kalleboo 12y agoThe product info page says it supports global roaming (LTE/UMTS/GSM) at the very bottom[0]. au/kddi will not unlock their phones right now, but starting May 2015 all Japanese operators are required to unlock their phones, so you'll have to wait until then. [0] http://au-fx.kddi.com/products/#title07 http://au-fx.kddi.com/products/#title07
- lhl 12y agoAh, good to know. I'll drop by the Tokyo store and see if they'll sell me one w/o a contract. Last time I dropped by a Japanese phone store they wouldn't sell me a phone w/o one, and of course, wouldn't sell me a SIM w/o an alien registration card.