Apple Watch series 3 EE

[macgrl]

Not in the UK, unfortunately. It's 4G or Wifi/bluetooth only

https://www.apple.com/uk/watch/cellular/#footnote-2

Am I correct in thinking that you can't connect an Apple Watch to a wifi network unless your iPhone has previously been connected to the same network? If this is the case then if you are out and about and have no 4g and no iPhone then you cannot use a new wifi network?

 

[markhort]

I'm a bit miffed that EE are treating the Watch data as an additional line. Personal accounts are limited to 5 lines, which I've hit the limit due to 4 phones for my family and a data sim for my iPad.

I might be having a interesting conversation with the sales team on Friday if I'm unable to use 4G on my new Watch.

 

[Brookzy]

I'm a bit miffed that EE are treating the Watch data as an additional line. Personal accounts are limited to 5 lines, which I've hit the limit due to 4 phones for my family and a data sim for my iPad.

I might be having a interesting conversation with the sales team on Friday if I'm unable to use 4G on my new Watch.

I have a feeling e-SIMs will be treated differently - i.e. won't count towards the limit.

(Otherwise a sensible solution for your manager would be to split your lines into two accounts and manually apply any necessary discounts to match any existing multi-line discounts you had.)

 

[markhort]

I have a feeling e-SIMs will be treated differently - i.e. won't count towards the limit.

(Otherwise a sensible solution for your manager would be to split your lines into two accounts and manually apply any necessary discounts to match any existing multi-line discounts you had.)

I do hope so, I thought it might have been just an add on under the account I use for my iPhone. I'll see what happens on Friday. According to customer services everything is done via the app and I don't need to call EE before hand.

 

[username:]

If I sign for EE now and want to move in the future I assume the esim isn't locked then to EE

unless you move internationally, in which case the watch's cellular will not work in a different country.
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Sadly there is no "wifi" steel. It's LTE all the way. I'm an Apple fanboy and I think sometimes they just seem determined to shoot themselves in the foot. I'm happy for my watch to be tethered to my phone. The watch has 16GB capacity. I can (theoretically) run all day and listen to music without the need to "stream". However I couldn't do that because it would be flat within the first two hours.

LTE is great. And, what an achievement! But honestly? It's an occasional use luxury, for those that run or more likely those that forget; like me. And the UK is around 54th on the European 4G network table; so where I live since EE went 4G, I get NO service. so, if the customer service from EE isn't that great and the network isn't that great and the rates aren't that great; I'm unlikely to buy a watch that's offering stuff I can't or won't use at a rate I'm not happy with paying.

So, where is the steel, sapphire screen wifi watch Apple? And how many sales are you losing by not doing one? I'd hazard a guess and say more than you'd like to admit.

actually the wifi watch only has 8GB memory

 

[mzanker]

Wow, I didn’t realise that. Deal breaker for me in that case, outside of 4G network and then you get nothing! How good is EE’s 4G network

That's only for the Apple Watch. The EE network itself supports 2G, 2.5G (EDGE), 3G and 4G.

I saw EDGE (iPhone showed 'EE E' instead of 'EE 4G') the other day on the outskirts of Leeds.