Apple Watch Gaining New 'Walkie-Talkie' App in watchOS 5 so You Can Quickly Talk to Friends

[Krayzkat]

A walkie talkie is 2-way communication. This app is recorded messages.

Yes but you can't both send and receive at the same time on a traditional walkie talkie either, so affectively you send a message, then wait to receive a message back. I dunno if each message would be recorded (as in saved), or just sent in real time (which old school walkie talkies would do too).

 

[ckhris1613]

If you are in a sound proof room you will actually be able to hear the person talking too

 

[Smith288]

Way to miss the point completely. This app is nothing like a walkie talkie. Also, I ignore everything you presented because 1. it's irrelevant 2. doesn't contradict my earlier statement. That app is 100% not like any walkie talkie I've every used. There's nothing to disagree with there. Well 'cept the logic you used to disagree with it. You can add a 1000 features to the Apple Watch and the app still won't be like any walkie talkie I've ever used. Or anyone else for that matter. Just so that you're clear, we're discussing the app, not the watch. The app doesn't have tracking capability.

This guy walkie-talkies.

 

[gsmornot]

For my wife and I, both having Series 3 models with cellular. This is a game changer. Or being in different rooms of the house and not having to yell and wake the baby up.

Blep. Bring me a sandwich. Blep

 

[blcamp]

Did they mentioned what watches will receive WatchOS 5?

All models except the original, aka “Series 0”.

 

[rjlawrencejr]

Technically AW already had the asynchronous voice message capability in earlier versions of the OS. I used to leave voice messages in iMessage all the time. The only difference I see is the feature is now being pushed.

 

[RevTEG]

Hello everyone, I asked this in another thread but I can’t seem to figure it out. I really like the new Wilkie talkie feature. However, since this is real time messages, is there a wait till later to listen feature? The keynote showed the messages coming right through. That would be a pain when people are at work. Or like when I’m in the middle of teaching a class.

 

[ersan191]

Hello everyone, I asked this in another thread but I can’t seem to figure it out. I really like the new Wilkie talkie feature. However, since this is real time messages, is there a wait till later to listen feature? The keynote showed the messages coming right through. That would be a pain when people are at work. Or like when I’m in the middle of teaching a class.

Presumably it will not automatically play unless you have the walkie talkie app open.

 

[C DM]

A walkie talkie is 2-way communication. This app is recorded messages.


You did Johnny and yet you refuse to apologize. Typical.

So what is it that a stand-alone walkie-talkie can do that this can't? Basically what's lacking/worse?