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Sep 28, 2019
Worked fine, but requires a strong cell signal
2 of 2 found this helpful I read very contradicting reviews about this product online and was quite wary to buy it, so I thought my experience will help someone. I bought it for my travels in South America (Brazil and Argentina per se), and it worked well for me. In Buenos Aires it worked without a hitch, and in Rio it had a few occasional hiccups, but all-in-all - it was a very decent performance. What I discovered is that Solis needs a very stable and strong cell signal to work well. And since in BA there is no problem with that, it worked great. In Rio the cell service is notoriously patchy (locals sometimes carry cell phones from different providers, and switch between them depending on which signal is better). Funny thing - the worst performance Solis showed was in my apartment in Manhattan, NYC, but I get a terrible signal there. So, in summary - if you are traveling to a big city with good cell service, you should have no issues. If you will be somewhere where the signal is not so great, probably you should skip it. And - when turned on, Solis takes quite a while to connect to a cell network (5-10 minutes sometimes), so be patient.