topic Re: Network Specifications in Z Series

Network Specifications

Gururaj — Sun, 10 Aug 2014 17:09:35 GMT

It turns out the dealer sold me D6502, which does not have LTE according to the white paper. LTE will roll out in a short while in my town. Any way, the phone can be upgraded to handle LTE? Or is there a hardware requirement?

Re: Network Specifications

Thommo — Sun, 10 Aug 2014 17:26:25 GMT

Hardware requirement to be able to handle the 4G/LTE frequency

Re: Network Specifications

Ravi_trn — Sun, 10 Aug 2014 17:26:48 GMT

Can any one answer the above question. I to have the same problem.

Re: Network Specifications

Thommo — Sun, 10 Aug 2014 17:33:58 GMT

I did answer

Re: Network Specifications

Gururaj — Mon, 11 Aug 2014 02:32:40 GMT

Thommo..Thanks. Looks like they all use different processor variants with different modems. Extremely dissappointed!! At this price, D6502 should not be on sale here at all. Went to at least 4 showrooms. LTE capability (or lack of it) and the fact that there are variants of z2 are not highlighted. On another note, are there any 'dongle' solutions to make z2 LTE capable?

editing: Please see post below. The processor in my D6502 is one with LTE modems

Re: Network Specifications

Sam — Mon, 11 Aug 2014 02:52:21 GMT

@Gururaj wrote:

On another note, are there any 'dongle' solutions to make z2 LTE capable?

Unfortunately not sorry.

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Re: Network Specifications

Gururaj — Wed, 13 Aug 2014 02:48:26 GMT

We need to look at this further.

My phone settings say it uses the processor Qualcom MSM8974PRO-AB.

According to the qualcom website ( https://www.qualcomm.com/products/snapdragon/processors/comparison ) the snapdragon 800 series does incude modems compatible with LTE supporting upto 150 Mbps and RF360 transciever. ( According another post http://www.xperiablog.net/2014/02/27/confirmed-xperia-z2-runs-the-snapdragon-801-msm8974-ab-chipset/) says the pro version is snapdragon 801 which has modem capable of 300 Mbps. In either case, hardware should be compatible with LTE (150 Mbps) ? Shouldn't a software upgrade be able to make it LTE compatible?

Re: Network Specifications

Sam — Wed, 13 Aug 2014 03:00:56 GMT

There is more to it than that such as the RF Antenna etc.

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Re: Network Specifications

Gururaj — Wed, 13 Aug 2014 03:27:19 GMT

@Sam wrote:
There is more to it than that such as the RF Antenna etc.

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