What Pine64 do I own?
12-30-2021, 12:06 AM
pinephone supports gsm, umts, lte and volte. practically speaking for the future, we can forget gsm and umts (2g,3g) networks. some countries have disabled gsm and others umts network, some areas have disabled both. volte is practically mandatory. support for volte is partial in some cases. carriers blame manufacturers and manufacturers blame carriers for volte support. let's just hope that your carrier supports pinephone's volte.
5g, which is "new radio". nr has two modes, non-standalone and standalone mode. current implementation of nr is nr-non-sa mode, which is like adding new frequency bands into lte. nr-non-sa cannot function without lte's signalling, which means that nr-non-sa needs to connect to a lte cell tower first, thus cannot be forced nr only. nr-sa can operate alone without lte.
vonr (voice over nr) is similar than volte, but for nr-sa. i hope vonr won't be screwup like volte is of now.
pinephone does not support nr, both nr-non-sa and nr-sa.
5g, which is "new radio". nr has two modes, non-standalone and standalone mode. current implementation of nr is nr-non-sa mode, which is like adding new frequency bands into lte. nr-non-sa cannot function without lte's signalling, which means that nr-non-sa needs to connect to a lte cell tower first, thus cannot be forced nr only. nr-sa can operate alone without lte.
vonr (voice over nr) is similar than volte, but for nr-sa. i hope vonr won't be screwup like volte is of now.
pinephone does not support nr, both nr-non-sa and nr-sa.