A look at Vodafone K5005 / Huawei 398

Thought it was kind of interesting looking at this:
One of Huawei's LTE capable modems floating around in Germany , doesn't looks like it offers any advantage over the K4605/E372 for us.





Supports
LTE: 800 + 2600 up to 100Mbps - which is seemingly where SA will eventually step(stand to be corrected on that but believe that's correct speculation)
HSPA+/UMTS: up to 42Mbps but only on 2100 - No UMTS900 so not much of an option for CellC use.

Seems to be differant variants of this stick so perhaps we may yet see a UMTS 900 capable one appear.
The E398 that aren't the white ones maybe.

K5005 Freq's


More pics & info here(you need page translater)
http://maxwireless.de/2012/vodafone-k5005-lte-surfstick/
and here
http://maxwireless.de/2011/testbericht-huawei-e398/

2 antenna connections(Can you resist Ginggs? )



Chipset in it seems to be Qualcom MDM 9200 vrs K4605/E372 of Qualcom MDM 8220



See it floating around on German Ebay for 75-100 Euro - seems to be a V2 option available

Tun@ said:

2 antenna connections(Can you resist Ginggs? )

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I must get one!

You must ginggs! Then you can maybe update the MDMA software to support LTE. Sounds like a software overhaul though?

Software overhaul will be long done before I get one, my K4605 will have to soldier on for awhile longer ...