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Not 5-band - umts band 5, aka 850MHz. The first Nexus One supported only umts bands 1, 4, and 8. Bands 1 and 8 are European. Band 4 is North American AWS, but only T-Mobile in the US and Mobilicity and Wind in Canada operate band 4 networks.

Band 5 is the more common 850MHz band used by AT&T in the US and Rogers, Telus, and Bell in Canada.

The first Nexus One supported bands 1, 4, and 8. The next one supported bands 1, 4, and the critical 5. The current Nexus S supports bands 1, 4, and 8, and is mostly useless in Canada. And all of us up here would just really, really, really like it if Google would release that band 5 version.

Pretty-please, Google?

Edit: ack - corrected a bit



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