Huawei E303 Cellular Modem Discussion

You’re definitely correct that this isn’t up to the spec and if anyone runs into any trouble using it because of the IMEI issue then we’ll get them a new device.
We made a concerted effort on that batch to try to get generic, non-carrier modems in order to provide a better user experience and it looks like we got a little burned by that. Along with the generic modem, we got a generic firmware without unique numbers.
That being said, these devices do still work fine. We couldn’t get 3G in the US, but I was still able to get a solid 2G connection in my testing and send and receive data with no problems.
I also want to mention that the US devices are carrier branded and so they should all have unique IMEIs.

All of this annoying stuff is a big reason why we’re building the Dash. You don’t need to worry about any weirdness like this with the Dash because we’re sourcing our parts directly from manufacturers or official distributors. IMEIs on the Dash will be valid and unique.

With these modems we basically just wanted to offer an alternative reward in the Kickstarter for people who wanted to build IoT devices or mess around with the Konekt Cloud on their platform of choice without having to wait for the Dash to be finished.