“Will this phone run both T-Mobile (probably Band 4) and Consumer Cellular (probably band 12) simultaneously with both in 4G? My current phone drops T-Mobile to 2G to provide 4G for Consumer Cellular.”
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What I am hearing Nokia Mobile team saying is that this phone is mislabeled as a dual sim phone and that you have to physically change sims to use a second service. I've done some more research. Only now are a few dual 4G LTE phones available on the market. I've found some indications that the 2018 Nokia 6.1 can receive a software update to allow it to operate in 4G on two services (sounds like it really is dual sim) if it has the right firmware. I could not find anything to indicate which 6.1 phones might have the right firmware. Apparently, the Nokia 7 is supposed to be dual 4G LTE. Look for terms like "dual stand-by" in the specification when shopping for your next phone. The phones are still not all-the-time 4G on both services (battery life concerns) but both access the 4G antenna at the same time in a stand-by manner. I'm interpreting this to mean that when you get a call (some of us still use phones for talking) on a line, that one becomes full-time 4G and the other drops to 3G or lower. I would also assume the same behavior for texting, data usage, and so forth. I'm just hoping that, by setting my one line to be my primary data line in 4G, a phone call/SMS/MMS/etc. on the other line will allow it to go 4G for that period of time. Perhaps somebody should look at producing a dual 5G phone?
Sorry, there was a problem. Please try again later.I read that the dual tray can either be a SIMs and a memory card or a dual SIMs card. If you choose to do a dual SIMs card then the second card would be at 3g most of the time then 2g if the service area your in can't support a 3g for what you are doing on the phone.
Sorry, there was a problem. Please try again later.Hi there, Thanks for your question! You'll have to verify with the carriers but we're almost certain you can only use one carrier at a time. To switch back and forth you would need to have both plans active and switch the SIM card each time you want to swap between T-Mobile and Consumer Cellular. Hope this helps!
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