Simon, the watch does this now If you have WiFi calling support from your carrier you can shut your phone off entirely and still place and receive calls as long as your watch is connected to WiFi. This feature came out in 2.1 if memory serves of Watch OS. That may be another tight way of supporting calling on the watch. Since the feature is there now it should work over LTE just fine, exactly like the iPad does.
> On Aug 18, 2017, at 6:21 PM, Simon Fogarty <[email protected]> wrote: > > This doesn't really make a lot of sense if there is no direct calling. > > Ok you might get mobile data through the LTE but calling directly from the > watch would be great, although power draining on something watch sized. > > Besides phone calling is possible through the watch now but as we know only > if the phone is within contact distance of the watch. > > What would be wrong with a watch that utilizes the mobile account on the > phone to also be able to directly make phone calls so that one account is > used by both devices even though they are separate units. > > -----Original Message----- > From: [email protected] > [mailto:[email protected]] On Behalf Of Scott Granados > Sent: Thursday, 17 August 2017 5:36 AM > To: MacVisionaries 'Chris Blouch' via <[email protected]> > Subject: Apple Watch 3 to use E-SIm for LTE, phone calling not supported > > Interesting article about the cellular connection that will be added to the > Apple Watch 3. Looks like an LTE and non LTE version will be available. No > direct phone calling support but no reason SIP or other IP based calling > solutions (FaceTime) won’t work. Read more here. > > https://9to5mac.com/2017/08/16/kgi-apple-watch-lte-esim-phone/?pushup=1 > > -- > The following information is important for all members of the Mac Visionaries > list. > > If you have any questions or concerns about the running of this list, or if > you feel that a member's post is inappropriate, please contact the owners or > moderators directly rather than posting on the list itself. > > Your Mac Visionaries list moderator is Mark Taylor. You can reach mark at: > [email protected] and your owner is Cara Quinn - you > can reach Cara at [email protected] > > The archives for this list can be searched at: > http://www.mail-archive.com/[email protected]/ > --- > You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups > "MacVisionaries" group. > To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an > email to [email protected]. > To post to this group, send email to [email protected]. > Visit this group at https://groups.google.com/group/macvisionaries. > For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/d/optout. > > -- > The following information is important for all members of the Mac Visionaries > list. > > If you have any questions or concerns about the running of this list, or if > you feel that a member's post is inappropriate, please contact the owners or > moderators directly rather than posting on the list itself. > > Your Mac Visionaries list moderator is Mark Taylor. You can reach mark at: > [email protected] and your owner is Cara Quinn - you > can reach Cara at [email protected] > > The archives for this list can be searched at: > http://www.mail-archive.com/[email protected]/ > --- > You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups > "MacVisionaries" group. > To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an > email to [email protected]. > To post to this group, send email to [email protected]. > Visit this group at https://groups.google.com/group/macvisionaries. > For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/d/optout. -- The following information is important for all members of the Mac Visionaries list. If you have any questions or concerns about the running of this list, or if you feel that a member's post is inappropriate, please contact the owners or moderators directly rather than posting on the list itself. Your Mac Visionaries list moderator is Mark Taylor. You can reach mark at: [email protected] and your owner is Cara Quinn - you can reach Cara at [email protected] The archives for this list can be searched at: http://www.mail-archive.com/[email protected]/ --- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "MacVisionaries" group. To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an email to [email protected]. To post to this group, send email to [email protected]. Visit this group at https://groups.google.com/group/macvisionaries. For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/d/optout.
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