Where on a phone's specs do you see if it has one or two radios?

fatboy97

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I am starting to get concerned about the lack of two radios in the VZW version that I ordered.

One or two radios? I'm not sure about this type of concern... the SPEC's say:

Verizon (XT1096):
  • GSM/GPRS/EDGE (850, 900, 1800, 1900 MHz)
  • UMTS/HSPA+ (850, 900, 1900, 2100 MHz)
  • CDMA (850, 1900 MHz)
  • 4G LTE (02, 03, 04, 07, 13)

I don't remember all the LTE or other frequencies that VZW uses, but this looks like a fairly good list of them.
 

roadrat

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Those are the bands. Not the radios. The original VZW Moto X had two radios capable of voice and data at the same time. The new VZW Moto X has one.

My specific concern is this:

No simultaneous voice and data... trips in traffic where I am on the phone and Google can't re-route me around traffic since my one radio is tied up with voice.

Verizon has VoLTE coming to solve this but that sounds like dropped call hell
 

landale

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All of the new Motorola's only have a single antenna for voice/data (Moto X (2014), Droid Turbo, Nexus 6). It is likely this will be the case going forward on all future Verizon phones. Sprint phones have already moved to this design as of a year ago when Spark phones launched and of course GSM phones only need a single antenna to achieve voice and data at the same time due to how GSM works.