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What are instances where you will personally will use AW3 cellular without your phone?
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For me - going to a water park. I leave my phone in the locker and wear the watch. I would do the same thing at a regular amusement park as some rides make it a bit uncomfortable with the phone in the pocket. I may leave the phone at home if I went for a walk or bike around the neighborhood too.
But, are any of these enough for me to spend $10/mo more just for the convenience of using the watch? Nope, not at all. I might bite for $5/mo. Might.
But, are any of these enough for me to spend $10/mo more just for the convenience of using the watch? Nope, not at all. I might bite for $5/mo. Might.
Same, I get a bit tired of social media and harms productivity. I'll try and use my watch as my new phone and have my phone simply for downloading apps onto the Watch or watching stuff.That was me...and we can do this!
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Actually not sure about calls if your phone is not nearby. iMessage will work however.
If you're going to leave your phone at home, what's the point in spending 1k on it?
You may as well buy the iPhone SE for much less ($349 for 32GB, $449 for 128GB) and leave it at home.
With the money you save, you can upgrade your watch!
This! I won't even need my phone. I was thinking I could pair the watch with my truck radio too. Could drive around stream music never even have the phone.
Many reasons. Don’t like running with more than my watch and Bluetooth earbuds. Never out of touch with anyone. Working on the yard or mowing, why carry your phone shoved in your pocket? Golfing, swimming, walking around work, boating, etc.
I still get people wanting to carry their phone as I do that myself most times. But emergencies and never out of touch. Not worried if you forget your phone, not carrying a phone in the heat or dirty/sweaty work, yard work, etc.
Just being able to wear your watch and Bluetooth headphone and can do anything and basically everything your phone can do is a huge plus. You spend a $1000 on a phone, why not keep it safe from things that can damage or losing it is a nice idea.
I still get people wanting to carry their phone as I do that myself most times. But emergencies and never out of touch. Not worried if you forget your phone, not carrying a phone in the heat or dirty/sweaty work, yard work, etc.
Just being able to wear your watch and Bluetooth headphone and can do anything and basically everything your phone can do is a huge plus. You spend a $1000 on a phone, why not keep it safe from things that can damage or losing it is a nice idea.
I have to have 2 separate phones. Google voice did not work for me as a good solution. This way I can carry just one phone and use the watch for the other.
1) Running without my phone. I can't wait for this.
2) Leaving my phone at my desk at work most of the day. I will still get emails and notifications now instead of it just being a brick when I walk down to talk to a colleague.
2) Leaving my phone at my desk at work most of the day. I will still get emails and notifications now instead of it just being a brick when I walk down to talk to a colleague.
So I was just thinking about another use case. If you are going somewhere (concert?) where you know you will be using the camera a lot and want to be available if an emergency comes up, put the phone in airplane and use the watch for emergency contact.
I travel a lot for work, and enjoy swimming when possible. I have an original Apple Watch, so thinking this upgrade offers two benefits: water resistance as well as not needing to take my phone with me to the pool.
I’ll use it on the golf course especially since Swing by Swing Golf GPS app is available for it.
Exactly my point. Why blow 1k on a phone with unproven Face ID. Wait for series 2 when they iron out the bugs.
I have a work issued phone that I can't use for any personal needs but need on me majority of the time to make and receive calls (including during leisure or fitness activities). That being said, having an AW with cellular paired with my personal phone would decrease the situations where I would need to carry two devices on me.
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Calls get relayed for sure while on the same WiFi network.
Once I forgot my phone at home, but then realized the Watch was still connected via the car's onboard WiFi hotspot (connected to 3G). Did not receive a phone call or text message in that situation, but the Watch showed connection via cloud symbol. Same was true when being on WLAN at my parents-in-law's place, while the the phone was at home.
Given sufficient bandwidth, I could imagine calls being forwarded even over different WLAN's, though I haven't tried that yet.
Depends on the network. If it's open WiFi, no problem. If it's a network like I have at work, then it's no dice since you have to authenticate on the device. Not even sure if you could count on the WiFi at Starbucks since you always have to accept to connect.
I'm not even sure why I would need a phone if and when I get a AW3? Will the AW3 work completely independent of a phone?
you need an iphone to set it up. after that, you can run around without the phone and just the watch on the wrist.
My bet is that devs will just be asking the OS for data, and the OS will handle whether to use LTE or WiFi.
Living in Orlando, I go to the theme parks and water parks quite often. When I go to a water park, I leave my phone in the car. And some roller coasters at Universal Studios have a metal detector at the entrance so you can't even bring a phone to wait in line with you.
I'm always supposed to be available via phone or text. Having LTE on the watch will lower my anxiety of being without my phone.
And while we have WiFi at work, it's not always reliable. Now I'll be able to leave the phone in my office whenever I step out.
$10/month is worth the peace of mind to me.
I'm always supposed to be available via phone or text. Having LTE on the watch will lower my anxiety of being without my phone.
And while we have WiFi at work, it's not always reliable. Now I'll be able to leave the phone in my office whenever I step out.
$10/month is worth the peace of mind to me.