Google Pixel 6?

am321 wrote:

Jbear wrote:

Yeah I personally took that as a... It's coming but I can't say but who knows... That being said... I looked back at the rest of the thread ... Generallyt speaking (and I mean always with extremely few exceptions...) If a company makes a phone as an unlocked direct from manufacturer device... I.e. apple and their iPhones, Samsung and the Galaxy lineup.  They will work without issue and have all the bands built in for all carriers.  This has been the case for a long time.  Example is apple sells various devices for various carriers but they are all the same phone.  The only difference is that the ones for carriers are locked to that carrier for the purposes of carrier financing.  But once the phone has been unlocked (i.e. you pay cash for phone or you payoff the lein) the phone is functionally  the same to any carrier's network.  The exception to this is when you see a device say... The LG V60 ThinQ which was made exclusively and marketed as such for att and I think maybe a Verizon model?  Those were unlockable and able to be brought to tmobile but lacked certain bans (also some bands were introduced after the phone was made).  So in the event Tmo doesn't do the pixel at launch if Google sells an unlocked one (you can check the bands they will publish upon release) it 99.99% will be good as if Tmo sold it direct.  (Promise I'm not making this up used to work in telecom on network and device side) 

To be honest with you that's not the case. The reason I say that is because 1st off before the iPhone was officially a part of T-Mobile. I had an unlocked iPhone and it was giving me all sorts network issues and I used to have a circle where the data was supposed to be. Which all these issues back then were known issues with the iPhone on the T-Mobile's network. Which obviously now since the iPhone has officially been apart of T-Mobile, iPhones work correctly on T-Mobile.

 

Then one of the main reasons why I even made this post was because earlier in the day I did some research and I saw multiple people on Reddit and other places complaining about any Pixel phone including the 5 not working properly on T-Mobile's network. I saw one person say that he went to T-Mobile and they told him that even unlocked it's not compatible with the network, so he walked right across the street to Verizon got an official branded Pixel and switched networks. Then I saw a common issue of people complaining that they were getting kbps data speed and the data was never working properly for them (probably because like the other guy said it wasn't compatible with their network even if it was unlocked). I even saw someone make another post about how the Pixel is not on the official approved network list of compatible unlocked phones. 

 

So with all that being said, I don't want to purchase the phone from Google and then take a chance that these issues occur for me. Then I would need to switch the phone to something that's officially carrier branded. Which I'll probably lose a lot of money because I'll not be able to return the Pixel phone for a full refund if it doesn't work on T-Mobile's network after I purchased it, used it, and tested it out to see this.

 

Also thanks for telling me this and I don't want to come off mean and or egotistical, but I know every last thing of what you told me already. I also know that Google had an exclusive carrier agreement with Verizon for a long time as well. So the thing is I'm also talking about the Pixel 5 which has nothing to do with way back and with Wimax. So I can understand if it was a Nexus device or an earlier Pixel device, but not with a Pixel 5 which is also one of the main Pixel models with complaints.

If you would like to find this information, then all you have to do Google it and you're going to find a bunch of Reddit pages and other random forums etc that are talking about these issues that I mentioned throughout this post.