Apple's Series Three Apple Watch to Include Cellular Connection

[9594864]

Also, in relation to this absurd proposition.

There are people who like correction glasses, there are people who hate correction glasses, there are people that don’t really care and almost everybody loves sun glasses.

This being said, If you need correction glasses, like It or not you uses them.

Seeing the world that surrounds us is of primal importance to human interaction, survival and information relay.

That is why everyone who needs correction glasses use them.

Augmented reality, is the first step of merging (mixed reality) the real world with the virtual world, augmented reality is the creation of a new information era.

An era where there is a new magical virtual world constructed on top of the real world.
A world where information envolves and revolves your body.

It doesn’t matter If you like glasses or not, everyone will want to see, (everyone will need to see, like they do in the real world) the augmented world.

In a sense the reason why people tend to think nobody wants augmented reality glasses is because in the past there wasn’t a good reason to, in the near future they will be the only why to really experiment the world around us, and that is reason more than enough because It will be a necessity.

I can't wait for you to get a striking feeling of being completely wrong in a few short years.

P.S. LASIK eye surgery was developed and is performed all over the world all the time, specifically because humans do not like putting things on their faces. A human prefers a laser cuts and reshapes their eye over putting glasses on. Enjoy that thought.

 

[Michael Scrip]

I would think you could include a cellular connection without too much of a hit to battery life. You wouldn't be streaming high quality video - just text (which is nothing), small pictures, small videos, and music. You could have the cellular antenna on for a second, download a few minutes of audio, and shut it off for a few minutes to save power while you play back that downloaded audio.

Good point. You would not be constantly banging on the cellular connection on a watch.

Makes me wonder where this "ZOMG LTE will kill watch batteries!?!?!?!?" idea came from?

 

[ericg301]

The only Apple product that needs to be thinner, Passed my series 2 never liked the bulky design. Hope it's thinner.

You must not have worn a regular watch then. My original watch is so light I sometimes have to check and make sure it's still there.

I wore a chunky citizen watch for years before.

 

[ersan191]

Wearables are $5/mo with Verizon - which I'll gladly pay.

I am hoping for a new form factor or for it to at least be thinner, but not holding my breath.

 

[Mousesuck]

Hate to break it to you but AR glasses won't change the world. Nothing that a human has to put on the face will change the world because humans don't want to put things on their faces if they do not have to. Both from a comfort, and social standpoint, AR glasses will never be more than niche.

Humans will continue to use smartphones because smartphones have large displays.

The thing that replaces smartphones is so far off its insane. I can tell you what it is which you have never thought of:

Manipulation of neurons in the human brain. Enabling a human to hear, feel, smell, and see things that aren't truly there, and think and get internet answers in their mind, communicate telepathically, among other things.

I think I’m remembering you.
You are that little minded guy who not only thinks he is right but he wants really hard to be right instead of looking into the facts and shut up.

It is a fact, that every major tech company in the world is betting on augmented reality and investing billions on that technology as they see the end of the smartphone era approaching.

It is a fact that augmented reality is not meant to be experimented in a smartphone screen (which is just a first and really smart step by Apple) but realisticly with glasses that augment your entire field of view.

It is a fact that almost every tech savy person on the planet is dying to put their hands on this technology.

It is not a fact that nobody wants to put augmented glasses in their faces.

Indeed it is a fact that people don’t want to put tv 3D glasses on their faces, or google glasses (an augmented reality that was so ***** that the competition uses the term Mixed reality as opposed to AR to differentiate themselves) and to a certain extent virtual reality googles.

This doesn’t represent what we are talking about since what clearly makes people use or not use glasses is not the fact that they are glasses in themselves but the function that they serve.
Correction glasses and sun glasses, people use them because their function is important enough.

So If augmented reality is important enough, people will use augmented reality glasses.

If you want to “hear, feel, smell, and see things that aren’t truly there” just try LSD.

Have a nice trip, I hope you don’t comeback with your squared vision answers.

 

[MDMachiavelli]

This will probably be a game changer in a good way for me.

 

[dilbert99]

Paying an extra $10-$20 per month for a cellular connection and an extra $150 for the watch to have that cellular connection with a different number?
I can't see the point having a cellular connection on a watch TODAY unless it is a no cost extra.

My iPhone/Apple watch goes everywhere with me 99+% of the time so it is sharing a connection.

 

[Xirian]

I wonder how TMobile's DIGITS program would work with this. I could be wrong, but it seems like you wouldn't need to pay more to add your watch as an extension of your account.

They already sell other smart watches and its mentioned on their digits page:

If you want your smartwatch to use the same number as your primary phone, you can purchase Data with Paired DIGITS for your smartwatch for just $10/month (with AutoPay).

I'm sure it'll be the same price with the apple watch.

 

[Mousesuck]

I can't wait for you to get a striking feeling of being completely wrong in a few short years.

P.S. LASIK eye surgery was developed and is performed all over the world all the time, specifically because humans do not like putting things on their faces. A human prefers a laser cuts and reshapes their eye over putting glasses on. Enjoy that thought.

LASIK was created because bad eye sight is a medical problem and oposite to using corrective glasses LASIK is a cure

If you have a problem, ideally you solve it with a permanent solution!

 

[9594864]

I think I’m remembering you.
You are that little minded guy who not only thinks he is right but he wants really hard to be right instead of looking into the facts and shut up.

It is a fact, that every major tech company in the world is betting on augmented reality and investing billions on that technology as they see the end of the smartphone era approaching.

It is a fact that augmented reality is not meant to be experimented in a smartphone screen (which is just a first and really smart step by Apple) but realisticly with glasses that augment your entire field of view.

It is a fact that almost every tech savy person on the planet is dying to put there hands on this technology.

It is not a fact that nobody wants to put augmented glasses in there faces.

Indeed it is a fact that people don’t want to put tv 3D glasses on their faces, or google glasses (an augmented reality that was so ***** that the competition uses the term Mixed reality as opposed to AR to differentiate themselves) and to a certain extent virtual reality googles.

This doesn’t represent what we are talking about since what clearly makes people use or not use glasses is not the fact that they are glasses in themselves but the function that they serve.
Correction glasses and sun glasses, people use them because their function is important enough.

So If augmented reality is important enough, people will use augmented reality glasses.

If you want to “hear, feel, smell, and see things that aren’t truly there” just try LSD.

Have a nice trip, I hope you don’t comeback with your squared vision answers.

Haha I gave you the reasons it's not happening. Now go buy your Snapchat glasses while you await the true AR glasses. I'm sure there are plenty of pairs available for you.
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LASIK was created because bad eye sight is a medical problem and oposite to using corrective glasses LASIK is a cure you dumb ****.

If you have a problem, ideally you solve it with a permanent solution!

Hahah you don't seem to understand simple concepts?

 

[Rogifan]

Ok I give AT&T $258 every month for my cell and DirecTV. No way in hell are they getting more money from me for an LTE equipt Apple Watch. That’s just BS.

 

[Candlelight]

Sweet. Won't need to buy an iPhone anymore.

 

[cmChimera]

Spotify, etc., while working out.

My phone is nearby when I'm working out, or I have music stored on my watch. But point taken, that could be useful for some (If there was a Spotify app).

 

[matrix07]

I have the LTE iPad and pay $10/month to TMo for 5 GB of monthly data and I'm super happy with that. I use my iPad Pro with Logitech keyboard for my business and messaging students, so an always on internet connection is fantastic. However, I really just use my watch for notifications and activity tracking. I sometimes send messages but my phone is always nearby. I don't see the need for a cellular connection for me, perhaps there are lots of people who really want to leave their house without a phone, but are techy enough to stick a smart watch on their wrists? I don't know...

Millions of runners say hello!.

My phone is nearby when I'm working out, or I have music stored on my watch. But point taken, that could be useful for some (If there was a Spotify app).

There is Apple Music built in in every  Watch.

The only Apple product that needs to be thinner, Passed my series 2 never liked the bulky design. Hope it's thinner.

Mate, I swap  Watch original and Series 2 every day, one for daily usage and another for exercising. I never notice this so called bulkiness of Series 2. You just look at spec sheet and be panic for no reason.

 

[Mousesuck]

Haha I gave you the reasons it's not happening. Now go buy your Snapchat glasses while you await the true AR glasses. I'm sure there are plenty of pairs available for you.
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Hahah you don't seem to understand simple concepts?

You know fully well we are not talking about Snapchat glasses...

We are talking about this, cool concept made with Arkit:

Microsoft has hololens which is a beta, huge form factor, low field of view product, which is why for now it is marketed for developers and businesses.

This is magic leap, the secretive multi billion dolar company funded by google and the likes.
It is working specifically on mixed reality glasses and it is rumored their product will lunch at the end of 2017.

And their partnership with lucas films

Imagine this with glasses!
-Gaming
-Porn
-Art
-Cinema

If you don’t see it, or you are a troll or you are blind.

It is obvious that wearables are going to displace smartphones.

The future of Apple is on Apple Watch, AirPods and apple glasses.

The Iphone will be a central piece until the glasses can carry all the technology that powers the experience. Until that moment, instead of creating something massive like Microsoft hololens, the Apple glasses will probably be powered by the Iphone.

 

[Amazing Iceman]

T-Mo charges about $5.00/month for wearables. Let's see what really comes up.
The one feature I'm sure we all want to see is a dramatically improved battery.
I don't care if the watch gets bigger. I'm used to Casio G-Shock, so size is not an issue.
Bigger screen wouldn't hurt either.

 

[Abazigal]

Just a random thought - could Apple be prepping a budget version of the Apple Watch with cellular which can function as a GPS tracker for children? That's one way to achieve this without giving them a smartphone.

Something like the iPod shuffle of Apple Watches?

 

[EMT123]

So now my Apple Watch will have a different number to that of my phone? lol

Number forwarding, see samsung s3 watches

 

[AdmiralTriggerH]

Hopefully they will run it on LTE Cat M1 most of the time, thats 1 Mbit connection which would be more than enough for most things.
Cat M1 is designed largely for low bandwidth battery powered IoT things devices and supports VoLTE. Any more than that it should be WiFi or via iPhone's LTE only

 

[jacjustjac]

Millions of runners say hello!.

But what's wrong with syncing songs like you used to do with your iPod? At least those had 24 hours of battery life while playing music. Isn't the Apple Watch battery life while playing music and in workout mode like 5 hours? All you millions of runners want it to be less? The Apple Watch can store 250 songs, that's almost 17 hours of music. And on iOS 11 you'll be able to store multiple playlists on it as well.

Maybe it's just cellular triangulation to get a GPS lock faster.

 

[9594864]

You know fully well we are not talking about Snapchat glasses...

We are talking about this, cool concept made with Arkit:

Microsoft has hololens which is a beta, huge form factor, low field of view product, which is why for know it is marketed for developers and businesses.

This is magic leap, the secretive multi billion dolar company funded by google and the likes.
It is working specifically on mixed reality glasses and it is rumored their product will lunch at the end of 2017.

And their partnership with lucas films

Imagine this with glasses!
-Gaming
-Porn
-Art
-Cinema

If you don’t see it, or you are a troll or you are blind.

It is obvious that wearables are going to displace smartphones.

The future of Apple is on Apple Watch, AirPods and apple glasses.

The Iphone will be a central piece until the glasses can carry all the technology that powers the experience. Until that moment, instead of creating something massive like Microsoft hololens, the Apple glasses will probably be powered by the Iphone.

iPhone will be apple's top product for the next 25 years at the minimum. AR glasses will go nowhere.

 

[ThunderSkunk]

I have no interest in owning a phone. But one of these, plus an iPad, properly integrated, would be perfect.

 

[thealkimist]

The $10 per month add on for the iPad was a problem for me. You should be able to connect multiple devices to the shared data plan and not be charge for each device. Or maybe a limit. But when you have an iPhone, multiple iPads and now iWatch(s) the $10 per extra device is crazy.

Did you think about just using your phone as a hotspot?

 

[matrix07]

But what's wrong with syncing songs like you used to do with your iPod? At least those had 24 hours of battery life while playing music. Isn't the Apple Watch battery life while playing music and in workout mode like 5 hours? All you millions of runners want it to be less? The Apple Watch can store 250 songs, that's almost 17 hours of music. And on iOS 11 you'll be able to store multiple playlists on it as well.

Maybe it's just cellular triangulation to get a GPS lock faster.

Don't know where you get 5 hours usage from. You might confuse playing songs with GPS usage. I get a full day easily working out while listening to music (2 hours exercise)

There're so many things wrong syncing songs the iPod way (which you can't btw because Watch has no port). You don't have 40 million songs with you for example. Watch with LTE will be the best iPod ever. Forget about 1000 songs in your pocket. It's 40 million now. (And Siri will work so you can tell her to play any playlist you like)
Syncing songs right now is very very very slow. 1 hours podcast? Forget about it. It will take a couple of hours just to sync that.
And syncing alone is THE problem. You still have to sync it. Even with automatic syncing, which Watch can't do atm the watch still has to do the syncing.
And it's not only music and podcast, it's call and message too which will come in handy. I know many runners take their iPhone on the run just in case of emergency. (Before AirPods you don't want to call someone using tiny speaker on Watch but now it works together nicely)

 

[shiseiryu1]

Hmm. I like thin watches so might be interested in the Series 3 if it is thinner. Overall I like my Series 2 a lot. My main complaint about it is that the dictation doesn't work 100% of the time. Sometimes it's fast, sometimes it works but lags, other times it just poops out. I suspect it has to do with how far my phone is and what kind of internet connection I have.

I don't understand why for the watch they can't build in some sort of baked-in speech recognition. It's super frustrating to talk to your watch and then it doesn't work; you feel like a complete idiot. Dictation should work 100% of the time. After all, the damn thing doesn't have a keyboard and isn't convenient to type on.

One other complaint about the watch is that it has a problem displaying HTML emails. Most of the time it doesn't work and they need to figure that out. They need to build in some serious parsing so that the watch can strip away the BS and show you the guts of the message. Often a message won't be that fancy; it's just HTML instead of plain text and the watch freaks out. Make it happen Apple!

I like the idea of a LTE watch overall. I'd probably leave my phone behind much more often; typically I just grab it because I hate being out of touch or worry about being stranded. However, if I could make/take calls on my watch I'd probably leave the phone behind a lot more (and also be far less distracted) and be less likely to upgrade my phone as often.