Any Cellular Watches That Can Be Used on Prepaid?

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  CyberMurning on 02/11/2022 - 19:32

  well so the real question is are you really prepared to charge your called smart watch every 3 hours ? and potentially getting phone calls when the battery flat and miss out some important calls

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    mshanann on 02/11/2022 - 20:06

    Yes - won't be used as a primary number - more a device a family member can take when out and about exercising and don't want to carry phone/wallet etc.

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      [Deactivated] on 02/11/2022 - 20:16

      -5

      the average phone weighs what 150-200 grams?

      people wear ankle and wrist weights of greater weight on purpose when out and about to exercise…

      you can get cases to carry your phone, and as a bonus you get to listen to your tracks on the phone at same time

      getting a watch and then an expensive phone plan just to leave the phone at home and look cool is bad economics

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        mshanann on 02/11/2022 - 20:47

        +2

        You need a postpaid plan to use celluar on apple iwatch.

        Cheapest post paid plan in Australia is around $50 per month - plus another 5 to 10 if you want to get the smart watch number share functionality.
        That works out at $55 * 12 ongoing = $660 per year

        Now.. compare to a prepaid plan that I can get say from Boost say for 12 months with 140GB of data for around $150 or so which is more than I need.

        As mentioned, I don't want to have to share my primary mobile phone number either with the smart watch. I want the watch to have its own phone number.

        The watch will be used maybe every day or so for a couple of hours when someone in our family either goes for a run through the mountains, or goes for a road bike ride etc. I'm not concerned with the weight of say an iphone, it is more the physical dimensions. It is not convenient to put in a pocket. I don't want to have a big plastic sweaty case connected to arm either when running.

        I want a watch, just like the apple iwatch, that I can use for a swim/bike/run, and potentially receive a call or msg if needed, and also use it for tap and go. I don't want to carry a mobile phone for high intensity exercise.

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  [Deactivated] on 02/11/2022 - 20:15

  -1

  battery life on an LTE Smart Watch (i have the Watch 4) is near diabolical, even if my carrier supported esim/number share i wouldnt use it, LTE remains firmly turned off on my watch. its one of those things that seems like a good idea, but isnt. people are never that far away from their phone, so just use the call function via bluetooth it uses far less battery. you can still dick tracy phone calls if thats all you want it for. there will always be the odd couple of people who want to do it just because its there, and they will generally suffer to do it at any cost. me, im sane

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    mshanann on 02/11/2022 - 20:50

    +1

    We have an apple watch series 6 with cellular, and whilst the battery life isn't great, it can still be used on its own when needed. You just have to be diligent about charging it. The problem though is the cost to run it, it is just not economical with post-paid. Also I want to be able to share the watch with whatever family member needs to use it for some outdoor activity.

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    CyberMurning on 02/11/2022 - 21:50

    I told him the same he still insist….

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  Daabido on 02/11/2022 - 22:22

  Amaysim.

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  Xetrok on 03/11/2022 - 03:44

  You're best off doing something like this;
  Buy one of these https://www.spacetalkwatch.com/products/spacetalk-adventurer… $349
  Buy your prepaid nano sim with data and calls $150 / year
  Slot it into the watch and pay the subscription of $72 / year (unsure if aud or usd).
  Otherwise you're stuck with post paid.

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  lint on 03/11/2022 - 10:15

  +1

  I wasn't aware that you couldn't set up Apple Pay on an Apple Watch with Family Setup. That's just dumb.

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  OrderedChaos on 30/01/2023 - 00:30

  Can confirm - Amaysim prepaid works with the Galaxy Watches. You need to use the QR test feature on the watch itself.

  There's also TruPhone for Apple devices.

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    Toph Beifong on 12/03/2023 - 22:49

    Are you able to share the same number on both the watch and phone using amaysim prepaid?

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      OrderedChaos on 12/03/2023 - 23:15

      Haven't tried tho as I don't have a spare eSIM enabled phone to pair the watch to, and changing the Watch5 between actively used phones is a %$%#$%# mess. Really. You have to screw with your Samsung and Google accounts. Overwrote my Health data with my kids'.
      In theory -
      - Download it using the QR code on the Watch.
      - Download it to your phone.
      - Now it's on both devices but done separately. Enable it on the Amaysim App.
      It might fail to download to the phone. It might seeing as it might detect it's already download. Unclear. If it does download, then paydirt.
      Anticipate that the watch might have different behaviour to a phone hence suggested download that first.

      The other way is to just do it on the Phone. Then have the Samsung Software try to link it.
      Not clear that this will work seeing that Amaysim say that smart watch number sharing is not supported.
      They might reject the request from the watch. Hence I'd try the above method first.
      Who knows… it might work without an issue. They might just be advertising it as non-functional because they haven't developed a seamless user frontend.

      I'm just running my kids phone on one number, and the watch on another. Cheaper than a Telstra or Optus post-paid contract.

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    53459 on 12/04/2023 - 12:02

    thanks, QRtest mode works. Got my watch to call my phone (two different numbers, different carriers).

    but after a while, my watch linked to my phone on bluetooth, then Galaxy watch 5 would turn on the mobile network. it said, you need to be on the same carrier as the phone.

    I guess, if you don't link watch to phone via bluetooth after the setup, this problem will not occur.

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      OrderedChaos on 12/04/2023 - 20:22

      Have replied to your DM.
      If you post exact message I might be able to reverse engineer the app to figure out the conditions. Hope I didn't clear the decompiled code from my last attempt to get the app running on a Samsung lte tablet 🤣.