11-14-2019, 08:52 PM
(11-13-2019, 05:24 AM)bcnaz Wrote: Will the Pine Phone Brave Heart support 4G and 5G ?
I hear that 3G is going to soon be history on most Providers.
Thanks
The Pinephone comes with a Quectel EG-25G for the baseband module.
On their product page you can see the supported bands: https://www.quectel.com/product/eg25g.htm
And in the wiki linked in an earlier comment.
They support LTE which splits into LTE-FDD and LTE-TDD. You either use one or the other. The supported bands for LTE-FDD are B1/ B2/ B3/ B4/ B5/ B7/ B8/ B12/ B13/ B18/ B19/ B20/ B25/ B26/ B28 and for LTE-TDD you have B38/ B39/ B40/ B41.
It also supports WCDMA and GSM with the bands supported shown in the link.
You have to see what your carrier uses to see if it is compatible.
For example Verizon seems to support bands 2/4/14 for 4G.
Note that this carrier only accepts approved devices on its network.
Even if a device supports some or all of the required frequencies for this carrier, it will not be able to connect unless the device is approved for this network. Check with the network operator to confirm whether a device is approved or not.
Pulled ^^^ that from a generic website so I'm not sure how true that is but it seems to align with their business model. I'll update here if I figure anything out before now and the pre-order.
I'm not sure how this applies to other carriers. I just used Verizon as an example.