Rick Moen <rick@linuxmafia.com> wrote: My own antique Motorola RAZR V3 non-smartphone (bought directly from
Motorola USA) is a quad-band GSM device, the classic 'world phone'. Wouldn't it be nice if there were a modern smart LTE-capable world phone with an unlocked bootloader?
On that question (which is not the one you asked, but somewhat related), I read:
[snip] There are, apparently, 40 distinct frequency bands recognized in the standards. these two articles summarize the situation: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/E-UTRA#Frequency_bands_and_channel_bandwidths http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_LTE_networks I also found the following article informative: http://www.electronicsweekly.com/news/design/communications/4g-lte-may-hit-a... Having looked at several recent phone specifications, the best I could find were models supporting six LTE bands. At the moment, this isn't a major problem: the phone will just fall back to a slower protocol on one of the supported bands if it can't connect to LTE. The result would be slower IP connectivity in some countries and with some carriers - hardly a major problem for most people if you're only there for a short period.