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Apple Plans to Release a Cellular-Capable Watch to Break iPhone Ties

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Re: Apple Plans to Release a Cellular-Capable Watch to Break iPhone Ties

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Post by Bud »

dboreham wrote: post #48
user219294 wrote: post #18

If 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?

Samsung makes nothing, and has never made anything, remotely close to this.

Re: Apple Plans to Release a Cellular-Capable Watch to Break iPhone Ties

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Post by lathiat »

Avshalom wrote: post #49
erikpukinskis wrote: post #45

Earlier quoted context omitted.

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.

Getting my Apple Watch actually forced me to go through and get rid of a bunch of useless notifications also from my Phone. I didn't notice them on the phone so much - it was really great to do that.

And I already had a relatively "clean" notifications list, it's easy to get a total barage from all sorts of crappy third party games that want to beg you to play once a day.

The only thing I am longing for now is that I am on-call 24x7 and need to get Phone Calls & Messages.. you can set Do-not-disturb while sleeping to allow phone calls (all or from contacts), but not messages. I'd like to disable all notifications at night except messages or even better yet could set a per-app preference. Main reason is that I have notifications I like for youtube uploads for example, but I don't want them at night time.. which is common because a lot of channels are USA time and I am Australia time.

Re: Apple Plans to Release a Cellular-Capable Watch to Break iPhone Ties

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Post by aptwebapps »

sly010 wrote: post #71
brianpan wrote: post #58

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You are in control of that- doesn't your watch let you configure notifications? My watch is always on mute (vibrate only) and it has only a subset of the notifications that my phone has. My experience is it is less demanding of my attention than my phone.

> doesn't your watch let you configure notifications? Doesn't your phone too? The whole argument reads to me like "to free myself i could just get a feature phone but that would be uncool, so i will buy a smartwatch instead"

Sounds a good argument to me.

Re: Apple Plans to Release a Cellular-Capable Watch to Break iPhone Ties

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Post by taurath »

TheSpiceIsLife wrote: post #42
jamesjyu wrote: post #37

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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?

I really enjoyed my pre-iPhone Helio Ocean. Only messaging apps (text,MSN,aim,yim), physical keyboard. I would probably buy a modern version with no web browser.

Re: Apple Plans to Release a Cellular-Capable Watch to Break iPhone Ties

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Post by drewmol »

Avshalom wrote: post #47
keymone wrote: post #12

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What if it could pair with air pods and function as a proper phone?

How would you properly dial?

Don't they support speech to text? Unfamiliar never really played too much with one, but selecting from contacts isn't wasn't difficult. Rotary dial?

Re: Apple Plans to Release a Cellular-Capable Watch to Break iPhone Ties

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Post by drewmol »

ISL wrote: post #22
MBCook wrote: post #2

I 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.

On Ting, each device is $6/mo.

Nice to see a Ting mention, parent company is TuCows, a Canadian ISP. Check em out if you've never heard of them, I really like their pricing model if you don't need much data or rural coverage areas

Re: Apple Plans to Release a Cellular-Capable Watch to Break iPhone Ties

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Post by keymone »

aetherson wrote: post #31
keymone wrote: post #12

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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.

sure i won't get the display but i get speech to text, text to speech, calls, messages, calendar, activity tracker and all the other stuff that one can install on apple watch.

are you saying that everybody who has smartphone needs 100% of what makes it a smartphone?

Re: Apple Plans to Release a Cellular-Capable Watch to Break iPhone Ties

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Post by m3kw9 »

user219294 wrote: post #18

If 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…

You'd be even more sick from trying to check your FB for Apple Watch when fb notice the trend to use watch only.

Re: Apple Plans to Release a Cellular-Capable Watch to Break iPhone Ties

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Post by 2_listerine_pls »

kylec wrote: post #9

Maybe if Apple wins their fight with Qualcomm we'll start seeing cellular connectivity in more of their products. I personally have no interest in a cellular-capable Apple Watch, but I would be very interested in a cellular-capable MacBook.

I bet we'll hear about finger based sound conductance too.

Re: Apple Plans to Release a Cellular-Capable Watch to Break iPhone Ties

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Post by 2_listerine_pls »

MBCook wrote: post #65
amiga-workbench wrote: post #20

Earlier quoted context omitted.

They had a 3G macbook prototype years ago, never went with it. The integrated 3G & GPS in my ThinkPad is very convenient.

I imagine the all metal cases make it quite difficult (ignoring all other factors).

A black shinny ceramic casing would solve it.
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