Unless you want to use your Pyra for network penetration testing.How about this :
NOT A SPYING TOY.
I figured it out.
Note on the specifications page it says
The PLS8 does not support VoLTE, voice over LTE. It falls back (CSFB) on 3G (or less) to send and receive voice calls. Which is fine since that's how most carriers work anyway: it seems very few actually support VoLTE.
But prior to LTE, Verizon was CDMA: the PLS8 CANNOT fall back on their old network. So it can't use the LTE network for voice and it can't use the fallback which it doesn't support so at the very least Verizon would be data only. It's possible that other carriers could still use it for voice as the -US and -E can, but it's also likely that since it was built for Verizon they may have stripped out the voice feature entirely to save money.
The PLS8-V, with only LTE support definitely cannot do voice for anyone, it is strictly LTE data only and not very useful.
That is my understanding.Thank you for your efforts in sleuthing this out. So, do I have this right? I.e. would these statements be correct?
So, for anyone in the US to have a chance to use it for both data and voice, it has to be PLS8-US.
PLS8-US will likely work for both voice and data on AT&T and T-mobile.
PLS8-US will definitely not work for voice but may get some data coverage on Verizon.
There is NO option for a chip that would enable voice on Verizon - not even the PLS8-X or PLS8-V.
Accurate?
As long as it's possible to deactivate the chip easily (which was written here somewhere), I'm good.I hate to bring it up, but cellular networks can easily triangulate your position based on signal strength from cell towers and track your location using that data. :tinfoil:
The police have used this data to check out the alibis of suspects.
There's even an Electrical Switch so you don't have to rely on the CSS Firmware that the Modem is really off and not Transmitting anything AFAIK.As long as it's possible to deactivate the chip easily (which was written here somewhere), I'm good.
There's even an Electrical Switch so you don't have to rely on the CSS Firmware that the Modem is really off and not Transmitting anything AFAIK.
I hate to bring it up, but cellular networks can easily triangulate your position based on signal strength from cell towers and track your location using that data. :tinfoil:
The police have used this data to check out the alibis of suspects.
I think that is what he means, turning on a GPIO to switch on the cell modem is essentially an electrical switch I suppose.Are you sure about that? The last update I read (a long time ago), ED was saying that there will be no hardware switch but he will instead wire a led so that you can know if the chip is on.
100% more systemd than any smartphone.
Well that's the joke...Smartphones have systemd?
I've been working with the aTc's OS images on the OMAP5 devboard for sometime now.How do you know, that's what the recipient's got?
it's coming with a systemd enabled debian.Or did I get that wrong and the Pyra will ship with Devuan?