Ok. It looks like a good unit but the power consumption would warm your hands on a cold night.
Of course you are unaware of my use case.
The modem I am looking for is an add-on to my Smart Citizen Station
Smart Citizen found here.
Broadly this is a MCU system based on Samd21 low power tech. Not a raspberry in sight. Mine will be outdoor portable running on solar power with a battery so low power consumption is essential.
4G generally is not known for its low power consumption (the Wio lte draws 700mA when it’s running) but mine will run at most 10 seconds every 5 mins when it needs to send a bunch of readings. The frequency can be varied if consumption gets too high.
I have also looked at both Lora and LTE Cat M1/NB1 that are attractive from a power consumption viewpoint; but from a practical standpoint they have issues in Taiwan. I can look at them later.
Really I have only limited time and my game is about integrating sensors not developing modem software. The seeed Wio lte offered the Arduino library making it easy (or so I thought)
I did look at a few of the mini pcie modems but they all need a base hat to run …