For comparison, I checked USA-based T-Mobile MVNO Mint Mobile’s FAQ, which says, “If the phone has bands 2, 4, 12 and 71, then that is ideal.”
Does this mean, @corgan, that the Pure should work in the USA on three of Mint Mobile’s four 4G LTE bands? I ask because I don’t know what your comment about “the 1700/2100 portion of the spectrum” means with respect to this Pure/Mint overlap in three 4G LTE bands (2, 4, and 12). Thanks!
B2 (1900) and B4(1700/2100) are the two big ones for MVNOs in my experience–and by and large (maybe just because of where I’ve lived) if you don’t have B4, you’re never getting consistent connectivity.
Thanks! Per this article, B12 (700 MHz) penetrates buildings better than higher-Uplink/Downlink frequencies can:
It is quite well known that wireless signals travel further at lower frequencies. This phenomenon has become particularly important in the context of LTE where a frequency band has been allocated at 700MHz.
So, I am glad that the Pure supports B12, which is available to T-Mobile customers (per the above chart) and to T-Mobile-based MVNO customers such as Mint Mobile customers.
Next time you travel to Switzerland, take a Vodafone.nl prepaid simcard with you, the Dutch providers usually include Switzerland in their roaming and it’s much cheaper than local Swiss plans. I live in Switzerland and have been using Dutch simcards for a long time as my main provider for calls and data. I only stopped using my Dutch sim card last year because it’s a bit annoying for my Swiss friends to have to call a Dutch number…
For every story where a smartphone did not save a life, but a dumbphone would have, there must be one where it was the other way around. From that, one can not claim that one must be superior over the other. An example: Imagine a situation where you get stuck, can’t move your hands and are unable to reach your phone, but because of voice assistant you can still call for help this way on a smartphone, but not on a dumber phone, because it lacks this feature. Anectodal evidence is not enough to proof that one must be more reliable than the other. One would have to actively go out and compare the two in terms of “life-saver” qualities.
However, I can believe that certain dumb phones, would do better in such a test. Especially, If it’s one of these rugged, water-proof, high quality shell phones from a company with an excellent track record. But if it is one of the cheap KaiOs flip phones, I wouldn’t necessarily trust my life with it. Go to any forum and you’ll find plenty of people complaining about their phone not working. I wonder in which category the Mudita Pure would fall.
You’re right, and I did not claim that one must be superior over the other. Thanks for your imagined situation with a voice assistant – a very good example of how a cellphone with a voice assistant can be superior to a cellphone without a voice assistant (assuming that the owner earlier made sure that the voice-assistant feature was turned on).
To be honest - I passed info to @urszula and I wrote it a few times on the forum - it is possible, but not yet implemented. (also mentioned here Reviews of Mudita Pure)
TL;DR it is complicated to implement and pretty slow
To be able to tether via Bluetooth we have to reimplement the way we’re handling modem connection, as for now we are using is USB port directly during tethering - Pure is a USB passthrough for modem. Moreover, during initial tests of the Bluetooth stack, we’ve got a throughput of about 1Mbps - ain’t much. I’ve passed those requests about Bluetooth tethering further but we have to focus now on more important things such as fixing bugs that you guys have found
and I wrote it a few times on the forum - it is possible, but not yet implemented. (also mentioned here