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0 pointsw1ntermute12y ago0 comments

All US carriers except Verizon are/will be supported.

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I'm having a hard time finding the specifics on this. Do you know if this is due to it not supporting Verizon's CDMA/LTE bands, or due to a bureaucratic/carrier certification issue?

It looks to me like LTE on Verizon wouldn't be supported (bands 4 and 13), but technical CDMA should work?

jdhore12y ago

Part of the problem is since Verizon is CDMA and there's not really SIM cards, they can just say: "Your ESN doesn't look like a device we want to support, you can't activate it, sucks to be you"

ohazi12y ago

This doesn't sound completely accurate. 4G devices that Verizon does support, like the Galaxy Nexus, do indeed have a SIM(-like?) card that you need in order to use the device on Verizon's network.

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pertsix12y ago

This is completely false. Verizon uses SIM cards for many devices.

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