Just looking at the image, it looks smaller than other recent GL iNet routers.
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is it me or does it look it has a mini lcd screen in the front? 
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Yeah, that's an LCD. I hope they are not going to charge and arm and a leg just because it has an lcd.
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I'm not so sure it is a LCD. Take a look at their teaser video:
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BE3600 <
I'm concerned, as every other manufacturer's BE3600 models only have 2.4GHz and 5GHz, no 6GHz WiFi.
WiFi7 works fine on 2.4GHz and 5GHz frequencies:
Shall await for release, but I'm betting it does not have 6GHz WiFI.
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It will be a dual band router, because that's pretty much the only thing the product page states:
Dual-band Wi-Fi 7 Travel Router
Given the product name containing 3600 it will be:
2,4GHz + 2x2 + HE40 (theoretical max speed 688mbps)
5GHz + 2x2 + HE120 (theoretical max speed 2882mbps)
Looking at the support page, it apparently has a little screen!
What we do not know: Chipset? What ports can we expect? 1 WAN port, which likely is 2,5Gbit/s. I mean if it wouldn't be it would be slower than the Beryl AX. Will there be 1 or 2 LAN ports? Will they be 1Gbit/s or also 2,5Gbit/s?
Guessing it will have USB-3 for plugging devices into the Slate 7 and USB-C as power connector.
Will it have a TF-card slot like the Slate AX (GL-AXT-1800)?
I guess that will all be announced in the coming period!
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Chipset will be Qualcomm, just like every previous Slate model.
I would indeed like to agree with that, but at the same time at this point I would think wifi-7 on Mediatek chipsets is still not really there yet. And wifi-7 on Qualcomm seems to be behind that.
Based on MediaTek Filogic 860 ?
I bet its based on the MediaTek Filogic 860 and not on the higher end MediaTec Filogic-880.
(so they could use their MediaTek design & SDK experience of the Beryl, Beryl AX & Brume
So its a triple core ARM Cortex A73
The Filogic 860 chipset will support
- 2 x USB 3
- 1 x SD card
- 4 x Ethernet 1GB/s
- 1 x 10 Ethernet GBit/s
- 1 x 2,5 Ethernet GBit/s
- multiple PCI-Express interfaces
- DDR3/4 RAM
- NPU (Network & Crypto Engine)
Hopefully GLI will give it a decent RAM (hopefully ≥2 GByte) and a≥ 8GB EMMC drive
and not limit the device (artificially as all their others)...
So I expect the Slate 7 to have:
- 1 * 2,5 GBit/s port
- 1* 1GB/s Ethernet port (hopefully they put in a second 1GB/s Ethernet Port)
- SD card slot
- 1 GB of RAM
- 1 * USB 3 port
I would love to buy a Slate 7 Pro version of it with
- 4 GB of RAM
- PCIe slot for an user installable NVME SSD drive
- 32 GB EMMC (space for some Docker apps)
- POE/in Support (to get rid of the power supply when using it at home)
So lets see what Santa will bring....
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That's BE7200, this is BE3600.
Xiaomi's BE3600 is cheap, so I'm not expecting this to be that expensive.
Well, if the Slate name means Qualcomm, then I guess it would be something like: IPQ5312, IPQ5322 or IPQ5332. Most likely one of first ones.
I hope that GL iNet changed their design direction with the Slate 7 and that it is a true travel router that is compact, lightweight, and energy-efficient. Similar to what made the original Slate a great router.
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I will buy it if it can meet most basic requirements.
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The USB port is not interfering with 5Ghz band while an external hard drive or a thumb drive is attached to it.
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It can handle a thousand connections while torrenting.
I had to return x2 Slate AXs and a Beryl AX because of these issues, while my 10 year old Asus AC68U works flawlessly.
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Even with my screen at full brightness its impossible to tell what the ports are. We will have to wait for an official announcement.
It’s a mockup-rendering anyway.
So waiting for official announcement is the best.
This is what showed up when I googled slate 7. Not sure how accurate that is or where the info came from. But it might have 5G chip built in to it to be used with cellular networks. So take the info with a grain of salt.
Seems like I can see 2 ethernet ports and 1 USB-A port (likely USB3). So that would make it similar to the Beryl AX (GL-MT3000). You cannot see if those ethernet ports are 1 Gbps, 2,5 Gbps or 10 Gbps ports.
I cannot see any USB-C for power, but I guess that would be to the left of those ethernet ports.
Hopefully 10G ports 
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