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At £100 more for the watch and £7 a month to actually use cellular, it’s not cheap not having it if it’s not needed.
You never know you need it until you need it. I never thought I needed it until I realized how much I needed it when my phone went dark for no apparent reason was stuck in traffic on the highway on my way to picking up the kids and needed to contact my mother in law to get the kids from school.
In the US, it comes out to ~40 cents a day. Less than 3 bux a week. That’s not expensive IMO. (Figuring 12 bux/mo for the service.)
 
This is a pretty easy decision for me. I almost always have my phone nearby at all times, and it being $100 more expensive and also I'm on a cheap prepaid plan. Oh, and also the battery life.
Does cellular use more battery than the normal phone?
 
You never know you need it until you need it. I never thought I needed it until I realized how much I needed it when my phone went dark for no apparent reason was stuck in traffic on the highway on my way to picking up the kids and needed to contact my mother in law to get the kids from school.
In the US, it comes out to ~40 cents a day. Less than 3 bux a week. That’s not expensive IMO. (Figuring 12 bux/mo for the service.)
It’s expensive here and my carrier doesn’t offer watch support. I’ve used my watch to make calls plenty of times with my phone in reach but I always have my iPhone with me if I need to make a call. I keep the battery topped up and if I go for a run I dot want people contacting me. Not bashing people who want it, I just don’t opt for it when I buy a watch.
 
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Does cellular use more battery than the normal phone?

Well, that depends how you look at it. It’s a smaller battery in the Apple Watch, so it’s going to deplete faster, but it also depends on the reception/location of where you are, for example, if you’re in a building that has poor reception, that’s going to deplete the battery at a faster rate. But if you’re in an area that has poor reception in the first place, then just disable the LTE on the Apple Watch _if_ need be.
 
Stainless steel, titanium and ceramic have the sapphire crystal, cellular has nothing to do with it. If you buy aluminum with cellular it's still the inferior ion-x glass.
I was stating the cellular model has the better glass. I was speaking of the model cellular, just like the thread is comparing. My post was obvious and all you did was nitpick to nitpick.
 
I was stating the cellular model has the better glass. I was speaking of the model cellular, just like the thread is comparing. My post was obvious and all you did was nitpick to nitpick.

He was just pointing out that you can get cellular models without sapphire glass. You seemed to suggest ‘cellular’ is a particular model with better glass but it’s not.
 
The aluminum model glass will scratch very easy versus the SS model, which is what I was speaking of.
You confused us as your said cellular model when you probably meant to compare aluminium to stainless models. The glass on the aluminium doesn’t scratch ‘very easily’ but it is easier to scratch than sapphire glass. If it scratched very easily then my 3 year old aluminium would be covered in scratches from daily use by now.
 
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