How does Apple Watch 3 lte really works?

[dave006]

In my personal opinion, I would like the Explorer to show the Wi-Fi status as blue dots and switch to green when LTE kicks in to action.

Dave

 

[ANTAWNM26]

To me a true lte Watch should be able to operate without the phone being on. I️ think it was half assed if you asked me. The only thing they took into consider was iMessage with phone off smh and not oh they have people they communicate with off ios

Shouldn’t call it lte because it’s tethering off your phone not true stand alone lte.

 

[Itinj24]

Have an iPhone X on order and just received an AW 3 LTE (still boxed) after being on Android for the past 5 years.

The reason I wanted an LTE enabled watch was for the cases when my phone dies and need an emergency backup. My wife is still on Android and I'm pretty bummed that SMS doesn't work when the phone is off.

Question is, does WhatsApp offer a watch app and if so, can it be used when the phone is off?

Thanks in advance

EDIT*. Nevermind. Found the answer