I swapped my iPhone for an Apple Watch to live in an audio-first future
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I swapped my iPhone for an Apple Watch to live in an audio-first future
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Re: I swapped my iPhone for an Apple Watch to live in an audio-first future
#2Does anyone understand why Apple Watch only works with some mobile networks? I have an LTE version, but it’s not “supported” by any networks in my country. I’ve owned it for many years and it’s not really useful unless in proximity of the phone. I’d love to be without phone and perform simple productivity tasks, “queries”, etc.
Re: I swapped my iPhone for an Apple Watch to live in an audio-first future
#3It's hard to browse Twitter when your battery is 296 mAh and the screen is very small. I have found this is good for my mental well being.
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#4I think this is an interesting experiment. However, I don’t buy the premise of an “audio-first” future. Hearing and speaking are great, but so ads seeing and touching things. I believe in a future that is multi-sensoric. Sure, smartphones will most probably be replaced by other visual devices, maybe googles, but as a species we will continue to augment all of our senses with devices.
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#5taking up visual info is much faster, than audio info. Plus you have control over the flow and much more flexible UX.
going into audio mode is a completely different attention pattern, and definitely not casual.
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#6Does anyone understand why Apple Watch only works with some mobile networks? I have an LTE version, but it’s not “supported” by any networks in my country. I’ve owned it for many years and it’s not really useful unless in proximity of the phone. I’d love to be without phone and perform simple productivity tasks, “queries”, etc.
E-sim instead of physical sim I would presume?
Re: I swapped my iPhone for an Apple Watch to live in an audio-first future
#7Does anyone understand why Apple Watch only works with some mobile networks? I have an LTE version, but it’s not “supported” by any networks in my country. I’ve owned it for many years and it’s not really useful unless in proximity of the phone. I’d love to be without phone and perform simple productivity tasks, “queries”, etc.
I don’t think it’s the only reason but the Watch doesn’t have a SIM slot. It requires you use Apple’s “eSIM” standard and a lot of networks haven’t adopted it.
Re: I swapped my iPhone for an Apple Watch to live in an audio-first future
#8Does anyone understand why Apple Watch only works with some mobile networks? I have an LTE version, but it’s not “supported” by any networks in my country. I’ve owned it for many years and it’s not really useful unless in proximity of the phone. I’d love to be without phone and perform simple productivity tasks, “queries”, etc.
E-sim instead of physical sim I would presume?
Yeah. I don’t think there’s a physical sim option?
Re: I swapped my iPhone for an Apple Watch to live in an audio-first future
#9Does anyone understand why Apple Watch only works with some mobile networks? I have an LTE version, but it’s not “supported” by any networks in my country. I’ve owned it for many years and it’s not really useful unless in proximity of the phone. I’d love to be without phone and perform simple productivity tasks, “queries”, etc.
Your carrier needs support for eSIM, which may be the holdup.
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#10Article complains about distractions, and is littered with animated GIFs everywhere. You can hardly read any portion of the text without having nervous pixels jumping around somewhere.