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NuxMan I suggest downloading the app NetMonster and seeing which band your device is currently connected to. Band 28 is shared with 4G LTE and 5G technologies.

lapinski_aleksander For Samsung’s door-to-door warranty, it’s very abysmal here in the US. I have seen nothing but one-star reviews with Samsung US customer support.

Nageshkondi What network are you using?

TomTech The reason Nothing is not deploying the update all at the same time is because of how well it went when iOS 7 came out back in 2013.

Nik7 Still better than Apple’s 5GB lol

But more seriously, I missed when Google had unlimited free storage for photos if you bought a Pixel phone. That was the reason I bought a Pixel 1 in late 2016 and a Pixel 2 XL in late 2017.

ISLAMMDMANUL It can’t be all-at-once.

Just ask Apple how their all-at-once experiment went in 2013.

Derren Windows had this for almost 15 years.

jankowalski_qz6RLH0EdA Even my 6-year-old Galaxy S9+ works with the eSIM.me card. I used the eSIM.me card with my Galaxy S9+ in three different countries (USA, Vietnam, Japan) without any problems.

Waseemisitu when the next update comes. Nothing has been completely inconsistent with their update cycle, and also which devices receive updates.

i_Ramalama* Phone(2) does not have FeliCa support, while Phone(2a) has FeliCa support.

And Phone(2a) isn’t available to the general public in the US.

nandkishoresingh I agree that the most basic function of a phone is for phone calls, yet I’m unsure if you have tried using other phones on the same network.

HooshM And to a further extent, any hope for FeliCa support on the CMF Phone 1.

Why is FeliCa important to me?

I have been to Japan for tourism five times, and there is a chronic shortage of Suica/PASMO cards in Tokyo. The railway companies there advised passengers to use Mobile Suica; however, only Android phones sold in Japan, save for the Nothing Phone(2a) (not available to the general public in the US but is available for general purchase in Japan) and all Pixel phones since Pixel 6/6 Pro. Even if you do own a modern Google Pixel, there is this region lock preventing users outside Japan to set up Osaifu-keitai (a technology required to use FeliCa technologies like Mobile Suica) to ride trains, buses, and subways, as well as to buy drinks from vending machines and play games at some arcades. And even then, you need a Japan-issued credit/debit card to add credit to your Android phone’s Suica balance.

On every modern iPhone (2017 and up globally), they have got Mobile Suica support to work on iPhones sold outside Japan by allowing users with foreign credit/debit cards to top up an iPhone’s Suica balance, making it easy to add credit to a Suica card before one even lands in Japan.

It will require the efforts of Google and Nothing to bring FeliCa support to all Nothing Phone(3) users, regardless of where they bought the phone, as the railway companies are failing to resolve this chronic Suica/PASMO card shortage.

I would love to fly to London, but unfortunately, I don’t have sufficient funds to fly into London and stay for a few nights. I just came back from Japan less than two weeks ago.

HPande75 In your opinion, what smartphone do you think has the best camera in the market? I’m just wondering.

Z_Aid The most important thing for me, as a repeat tourist to Japan, is that FeliCa would be supported for all Nothing Phone(3) users, regardless of where they bought the phone.

Suica and PASMO cards are very hard to get nowadays due to the ongoing chip shortage, and having FeliCa accessible to Nothing Phone(3) users outside Japan would allow foreign tourists/expats to easily use one device to tap in and out of subway/train gates, or to buy drinks at vending machines. I had to carry around an iPhone SE 3rd Generation with a Pixel 7 Pro during my last trip to Japan, with the iPhone SE 3rd Generation being used exclusively for FeliCa-related tasks (going through subway/train gates, buying drinks at vending machines, etc), and the Pixel 7 Pro being used for everything else.

Aside from Japan-specific features, I’d also like to see eSIM support alongside nano-SIM support, as Apple has completely removed the SIM card slot from new iPhones sold in my country.