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It probably piggy backs off the SIM information from the "Master" device (which is the phone in this case).
So it has a software SIM? If so it's the first time I've heard of a device with one.
Made me giggle that the ad for this is some surfer being totally in the middle of an amazing moment and then getting distracted by a phone call. I really like my apple watch, but this really isn't selling it...
I've switched to Bluetooth earphones for my daily run. Still have to carry the phone though, which I hate. An Apple Watch that can play my music through my Bluetooth earphones is a game changer for me.
You could already load music onto your Apple Watch from your iTunes library and then pair your Bluetooth headphones with your watch. The only thing this changed is allowing you to use LTE to stream music instead of having a static playlist.
As far as I'm concerned, the LTE Watch cannot arrive fast enough.
The one thing that everyone besides a quite limited group of people is asking for many years - battery - gives no change. Give people 1-week battery life. Otherwise just stay a gizmo.
Cellphones used to have a 1 week battery life. The market spoke. We care more about weight than charging frequency. Sorry for those of you who have other preferences but this is not changing any time soon.
I wonder why so many Apple "defenders" are passive aggressive... Being a user is one thing, but being passive aggressive over a tech product have no explanation.
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I'm with you. Before watching the keynote, I was looking forward to the new phones but the presentation made me more excited about the new Apple Watch with LTE. I may be in a minority, but over the past few years, I've been trying to actively reduce the amount of times I pull out my phone. I feel like it will be liberating to leave home without your phone to go to dinner or go for a run, but still connected through t…
The air pods were the revolution for me. This is the one thing I was looking forward to until I heard that you needed a connected iPhone as well. Now it is a non-starter. Guess I need to go test the Samsung buds.
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I was relieved to see they are still selling the SE. It's really a fantastic little device and I much prefer the form factor. I don't see a compelling reason to upgrade.
They knocked another $50 off it as well, now starts at $350 - Damn good deal.
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Cellphones used to have a 1 week battery life. The market spoke. We care more about weight than charging frequency. Sorry for those of you who have other preferences but this is not changing any time soon.
I wish that the other 99.5% of people that do not own Apple Watch actually mean something to Apple then. I wonder why so many Apple "defenders" are passive aggressive... Being a user is one thing, but being passive aggressive over a tech product have no explanation.
Everyone wants long battery life but it's not that simple. If the tradeoff is having a huge, ugly watch then most people opt to simply charge daily like we already do for our phones.
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The phone is how you configure, update, etc. the watch. So I'm betting you need a phone for all the initial setup, and then you can leave your phone at home and go on a marathon run and take phone calls while you are out and about.
why couldn't you do that with a computer or an ipad, or an older iphone? ofc you could. Just Apple being really greedy, as we are getting used to
I have thought about buying an Apple Watch multiple times. But, then, I see comments from a lot of Apple Watch users who say that they completely stop using it after few months. For many of them, the utility is not strong enough. Have things improved in that regard? What do you Apple Watch users think about it now?
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You can already do that to a degree for the record. I left my phone at home accidentally the other day, it wasn't until the work day was over and I tried to remote start my car that I realized, since almost every feature I use worked over WiFi (the remote start checks for the phone's presence)
Yup, the watch piggybacks on WiFi authentication from the phone. Once you store the SSID and PSK for a network on your phone, the watch can log in independently, and you can take/make phone calls and SMS. I've done this when I left the phone at home by accident.