Best choice of supported hardware with balena.io for sim card (3/4G) mobile data connection

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Hi guys,

I am looking for some suggestions:

Currently planning to work on an IoT project which would need to have the sim card (for mobile connection) and data transfer and I am free to choose any hardware.

What hardware has the best sim card (3/4G) mobile data connection?

What would you suggest from the supported hardware of balena.io?

Looking forward!

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Hi,
You can choose whatever hardware you like for the single board computer, e.g. Raspberry Pi 4, balenaFin, etc. For the choice of cellular modem, we recommend using a modem from this list - Network Setup on balenaOS - Balena Documentation. Let us know if this answers your question!

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Hello @elsevero as we spoke some days ago, one hardware that we have used is the sixfab Pi Hat.

You can find an example here Cellular + IoT isn't as hard as you think and the IoT Happy Hour speaking about cellular connectivity here IoT Happy Hour #24: Twilio IoT - 4G/LTE Cellular Data on a Raspberry Pi - YouTube

Let us know if that works!