There absolutely no indication of how much the FP4 will cost or when it will be marketed. There is a 700Euro surprise packet tied to a competition and there is a record of an FP4 being registered for 5G, that’s it.
There is also an official note saying not for another 18 months after the FP3 so that would be next year.
Anyway I would be happy to see an FP4 in the next week.
The FP3 is availalabe since 2019. which offical note are you referring to?
In case they did not completely change their way of communications and in case its a new device it will be available directly after the announcement.
So as already stated above the only we know for sure at the moment is that somehing will be announced this month. Knowing they will announce something and with the wifi alliance leak, I would def wait with an order to see if its a new phone or not.
I would not count for this statement, as they would never ever tell you about any plans and those could have been changed as well, nor do we know who at Fairphone wrote/stated this.
Overall why speculating further, if possible to wait just wait a few weeks, that’s all my initial comment was about.
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Hi.
The Fairphone only allows data on one sim card at any time so I wonder! do you adjust settings to switch which sim slot can use data?
Yeah, I’d seen somewhere that folks had trouble using sim slot 2 for data, so I’ve mainly tried to use T-Mobile data with my T-Mobile sim in slot 1 (and with data turned off for slot 2).
@strongthany@nell@josephmaher or others using T-Mobile’s network, would you be willing to share the APN settings you’re using on your FP3? (I assume APN settings are the same whether you’re a T-Mobile subscriber or you use something like Ultramobile?)
This is dumb, but I figured it out. There are two places in the menu to switch which sim is used for data:
One is under Settings > Network & Internet > Mobile network, where there is a toggle button for ‘Mobile data’ for each sim.
The other is under Settings > Network & Internet > SIM cards, where it asks for ‘Preferred SIM for…Cellular data, Calls, SMS messages’.
Both places need to have the same sim card selected for data to work on that sim card.
Maybe this will help some other Luddite out there who’s confused about how to turn their data on. Thanks to all who provided advice or info on this! Huge relief to be able to keep using my FP3 even after AT&T turns off their 3G network.
I have been using the fairphone for 1.5 years in NYC and Maryland areas, over an AT&T reseller, and the reception has been great. Over the last two months, I have noticed some issues, but my phone did not have LTE enabled. Since enabling LTE, the reception has been fine, except for some issues in Maryland. I got an email from my AT&T reseller telling me that my phone uses 3g now (hspa), and that it will not be able to connect in a while.
I am going to try switching to TMobile soon and see if that works, and then drop my at&t reseller.
I would be up for using any carrier, as long as it had the best reception with fairphone 3 bands.
And it looks like it’s using LTE too! That is very encouraging!
Though, AlbertJP made comment about some carriers marketing HSPA+ as 4G. I’m not too familiar with the those apps, so I don’t know if they’re reporting the type of network your phone is using, the type it’s capable of using, or what the network is reporting as its type. Would you mind popping into ‘About Phone’ → ‘Mobile data network type’ and posting a screenshot? It’s not that I don’t believe you, it’s just that I want to be sure before I have a Fairphone imported. Though, at this rate, I might as well wait a couple weeks for the Fairphone 4.
That app doesn’t use any ‘3G’ or ‘4G’ names but names the actual technology (LTE), so it should be fine.
In any case, a newer phone model might support more bands, and that could make your phone work for a longer time in the US. T-Mobile can after all decide to refarm a band to 5G (although it appears technically possible to share spectrum between 4G and 5G phones,) leaving FP3 users with the same problems FP2 users are currently facing.
The entire T-Mobile frequency range seems to be supported on 2/3/4/5G, except for some high frequency (3.5GHz and above) bands. Crucial here is the support for band 12 (700Mhz 4G) and 71 (600MHz 4G/5G) giving you access to low-frequency bands in rural areas.