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Nexus 5: Excellent global coverage, perplexing LTE support | ExtremeTech

November 05, 2013

Link: Nexus 5: Excellent global coverage, perplexing LTE support | ExtremeTech

As far as non-cellular network capabilities go, the Nexus 5 has support for WiFi a/b/g/n/ac and Bluetooth 4.0 LE. The cellular network capabilities are interesting in an somewhat perplexing manner.It won’t matter to many people, but apparently Nexus 5 has 2 SKUs, one for US and other for international. I was a bit excited for a moment when i heard e-mobile launches Nexus 5 in Japan since I have a SIM card for them (which I use with a mobile router these days).

But apparently my Nexus 5 won’t work with their LTE band, let alone their existing 280yen/month plan doesn’t let me use their LTE network anyway.