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| Jun 10, 2019 at 23:41 | comment | added | bmike♦ | Sweet. It’s so unlikely any country with official apple stores and / or part of the EU wouldn’t have ridiculously better coverage than all but the best areas in the US. GSM/LTE is better in Europe every time I check on things. | |
| S Jun 10, 2019 at 23:35 | history | suggested | WGroleau | CC BY-SA 4.0 |
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| Jun 10, 2019 at 22:27 | comment | added | WGroleau | A number of people in Spain told me that their phones worked fine there. But I couldn’t persuade any of them to reveal the model number. One of them, however, cited frequencycheck.com which prompted me to look closer at the bands specified on the Apple page. The lists are exactly the same, so I added a little to this answer and checked it. | |
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| Jun 10, 2019 at 22:04 | vote | accept | WGroleau | ||
| Jun 9, 2019 at 15:15 | comment | added | WGroleau | yes—or find out for sure that having LTE “not supported” won’t be something I regret when I leave USA. | |
| Jun 9, 2019 at 13:41 | comment | added | bmike♦ | Somehow I totally missed you didn’t want to just buy an unlocked phone from Apple or why you were asking them and us questions. You just want to buy phone models not on the store? | |
| Jun 9, 2019 at 3:33 | comment | added | WGroleau | I'm not in Spain. If I were, I could go to K-tuin and get what I am after. I am well aware that they sell unlocked phones, but apparently they won't sell the model I wanted, which is the point of the question. | |
| Jun 8, 2019 at 19:55 | comment | added | bmike♦ | Apple sells unlocked phones : - ) apple.com/shop/buy-iphone/iphone-7/… Kind of envious you are in Spain - I need to make it back there soon - I miss working and visiting quite a few parts of that country. | |
| Jun 8, 2019 at 18:20 | comment | added | WGroleau | I picked 7/7+ to reduce the price but not 6 because 7 is almost waterproof. I've asked a group of Spanish expatriates for their experiences with iPhone and which model. So far, the only answers have omitted the model number! I bought an A1778 for my wife over there and it works fine here in USA. If Apple can ship them over there (or to AT&T), I don't get why they won't sell them here. I could buy one from AT&T but then I have to fight them to get it unlocked. | |
| Jun 8, 2019 at 17:32 | comment | added | bmike♦ | I would consider iPhone 6s and newer the more universal devices. I would expect your problems with the 4 were significant as the base bands then were more limited. When I say communicator I mean viable data connection in addition to voice+sms service. | |
| Jun 8, 2019 at 15:49 | comment | added | WGroleau | Being able to go further from town is of value, too, but the “smart” functions aren’t so important there. The population thirty village I lived in in Spain had a cell tower, and the U.S.-bought iPhone 4 I arrived couldn’t do anything without WiFi. But the iPhone 7 (GSM-only) I bought in the nearest city had no issues there nor in the fields and forests of the region. | |
| Jun 8, 2019 at 15:36 | comment | added | WGroleau | I didn’t just ask for a universal communicator. I can buy dozens of communicators for the cost of an iPhone. I guess I need to make the question clearer. | |
| Jun 8, 2019 at 2:51 | history | answered | bmike♦ | CC BY-SA 4.0 |