Could the Apple Watch use WiFi provided by a phone's personal hotspot?
Apple Plans to Release a Cellular-Capable Watch to Break iPhone Ties
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#42If you could make calls, respond to messages (any platform), play music from a major music service, and stay up-to-date with the most important notifications, you could basically untether yourself from your phone completely. This would be a real game-changer from a personal health standpoint. People are losing their minds with the current smartphone pandemic. I, personally, would welcome this change. It seems like an…
This would be pretty cool. I've started the habit of bringing a book (yes, paper!) to places to read. But, I still need to have my phone with me, in case of emergency calls or urgent messages. If the watch can do that, it'd basically act like a dumb phone with just enough capabilities to make me leave the phone at home.
I recently bought a cheap feature phone and used that for a while, especially at work. Two things pushed me back to carrying a smartphone full time:
1. Typing messages on a keypad (T9 predictive), annoying as I usually just send messages for work 2. Swapping the sim card between two phones on the weekend / evenings
Battery life was phenomenal.
Does anyone know how to copy an Australian sim card?
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#43There are plenty of instances where I might want directions while I'm on a run, but there is no way I'm paying $10 a month to add the device to my plan. Hopefully it is just shared data with my phone plan. We'll see what the carriers do, but I think it will make or break it for a lot of people.
$10/month to no longer need my phone for map my run and Spotify? That's worth $120/yr to me
You don't need that if you preload the music and just use the series 2 gps.
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#44If you could make calls, respond to messages (any platform), play music from a major music service, and stay up-to-date with the most important notifications, you could basically untether yourself from your phone completely. This would be a real game-changer from a personal health standpoint. People are losing their minds with the current smartphone pandemic. I, personally, would welcome this change. It seems like an…
This would be pretty cool. I've started the habit of bringing a book (yes, paper!) to places to read. But, I still need to have my phone with me, in case of emergency calls or urgent messages. If the watch can do that, it'd basically act like a dumb phone with just enough capabilities to make me leave the phone at home.
That's what I'm thinking. The smartphone could be left home turned off, only to be brought out when I need the GPS or similar.
As such I love the thought. It's nothing a dumb phone can't offer right now, but the convenience of it being in watch form would just be fantastic.
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#45If you could make calls, respond to messages (any platform), play music from a major music service, and stay up-to-date with the most important notifications, you could basically untether yourself from your phone completely. This would be a real game-changer from a personal health standpoint. People are losing their minds with the current smartphone pandemic. I, personally, would welcome this change. It seems like an…
How would an even more closely (physicallyly)coupled device help alleviate whatever pandemic you think exists?
The lack of a screen capable of paragraphs and videos would cut you off from the most forms of readily available content, which would blunt the device's addictive potential.
It's similar to the theory that mandating a lower nicotine content in tobacco would curb addiction.
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#46Earlier quoted context omitted.
What if it could pair with air pods and function as a proper phone?
It might function as a proper phone , but it can't function as a proper smartphone , because you need a real screen for that.
What you're implying is that blind people can't properly use a smartphone, which I believe is false.
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#47I love my S2, but I have a hard time seeing why I should pay the cell phone company $120/yr to connect my watch. I don't go without my phone and I don't think this would change that. For people who want to run and listen to Spotify this may be great. But that stupid cell company fee will keep me away. Just like it keeps me off cellular iPads.
What if it could pair with air pods and function as a proper phone?
How would you properly dial?
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#48If you could make calls, respond to messages (any platform), play music from a major music service, and stay up-to-date with the most important notifications, you could basically untether yourself from your phone completely. This would be a real game-changer from a personal health standpoint. People are losing their minds with the current smartphone pandemic. I, personally, would welcome this change. It seems like an…
A real game changer like the watches Samsung has been making for years that already do these things?
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#49Earlier quoted context omitted.
How would an even more closely (physicallyly)coupled device help alleviate whatever pandemic you think exists?
The lack of a screen capable of paragraphs and videos would cut you off from the most forms of readily available content, which would blunt the device's addictive potential. It's similar to the theory that mandating a lower nicotine content in tobacco would curb addiction.
A watch might be worse at keeping my attention but it is even better at demanding my attention.
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#50If you could make calls, respond to messages (any platform), play music from a major music service, and stay up-to-date with the most important notifications, you could basically untether yourself from your phone completely. This would be a real game-changer from a personal health standpoint. People are losing their minds with the current smartphone pandemic. I, personally, would welcome this change. It seems like an…
A real game changer like the watches Samsung has been making for years that already do these things?
Got a model reference? I'm curious