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The Fairphone 5 price has been dropped to €499. The phone is designed to be the most advanced environmentally friendly smartphone. (shop.fairphone.com)
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I don't like smartphones. I use a dumbphone.

But this is a wonderful initiative.

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[–] CmdrShepard42@lemm.ee 11 points 5 days ago (2 children)

And it doesn't support US bands for TMobile

[–] Resonosity@lemmy.dbzer0.com 1 points 2 days ago* (last edited 2 days ago)

T-Mobile supports these bands:

  • 5G: n2/41/71/258/260/261

  • 5G,ER: n25

  • 4GLTE: B4/5/12/71

  • 4GLTE,ER: B25/66

  • 2G,GSM: B2

Fairphone 5 supports these bands:

  • 5G: n1/2/3/5/7/8/20/28/38/41/48/71/77/78

  • 5G,ER: n66

  • 4GLTE: B1/2/3/4/5/7/8/12/20/28/32/38/40/41/42/48/71

  • 4GLTE,ER: B66

It looks like the Fairphone 5 covers T-Mobile's 5G Frequency Band 1 frequencies (bold), but Frequency Band 2 is not covered (italic).

Regarding 4G, the Fairphone 5 covers all LTE networks (bold) except for extended range band B25 (italics).

it doesn't support US bands for TMobile

It covers some, but not all.

[–] chronicledmonocle@lemmy.world 2 points 4 days ago

For 4G. 5G is fine.