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Additional SIM card for paired smart watch?

skewpar — Wed, 05 Jan 2022 06:59:32 GMT

Is it possible to get another SIM card on my account to use in an LTE enabled smart watch along with my phone?

Re: Additional SIM card for paired smart watch?

Samianauman — Sat, 22 Apr 2017 16:31:04 GMT

No you can't get additional sim on same account
But you can get a another sim with new plan
There's no carrier offer duplicate sim for one account
Only option you have connect Watch with Bluetooth connection like Samsung and Apple Watch have full access to cellphone plan once then connected via Bluetooth

Those LTE enable Watch ⌚️ made to have a whole separate own plan unless user don't mind keep swapping sim back n forth which is pain

Two SIM card required 2 plans that's most Canadian and USA carrier rules unless you have a shared account even on shared you only shared a plan each member have there own number as well 😉

Re: Additional SIM card for paired smart watch?

Watoko — Sat, 22 Apr 2017 16:23:42 GMT

As @Samianauman has said. You would need to switch your SIM card between your phone and your watch. This question popped up before, and I was wondering (for curiosity sake), why would you need a SIM card on your watch, when you can Bluetooth and tether from your phone? I don't own a smartwatch 😛

Re: Additional SIM card for paired smart watch?

Samianauman — Sat, 22 Apr 2017 17:25:30 GMT

@Watoko

Agreed someone did asked same thing few days ago lol I answered that question too I think it's just a timing I was here both time when those questions popped up

Re: Additional SIM card for paired smart watch?

Watoko — Sat, 22 Apr 2017 18:30:38 GMT

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Re: Additional SIM card for paired smart watch?

Samianauman — Sat, 22 Apr 2017 18:35:47 GMT

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Re: Additional SIM card for paired smart watch?

Luddite — Sat, 22 Apr 2017 19:14:21 GMT

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Re: Additional SIM card for paired smart watch?

Samianauman — Sat, 22 Apr 2017 19:54:06 GMT

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Re: Additional SIM card for paired smart watch?

skewpar — Sat, 22 Apr 2017 22:30:22 GMT

Just wanted an option to not carry my phone (e.g. going to the gym)

Re: Additional SIM card for paired smart watch?

Samianauman — Sat, 22 Apr 2017 22:33:17 GMT

@skewpar
I know what you mean when I goto gym I used to connect my Samsung watch but now I I have a iPhone and bought a watch too so I connect with Apple Watch works pretty good
Suggust you get one of those Bluetooth enable smart watches this way you can leave your phone in a bag and use watch while working out

Re: Additional SIM card for paired smart watch?

skewpar — Sat, 22 Apr 2017 22:36:50 GMT

Going for a run, is another example. Phones are clucky 😉

Re: Additional SIM card for paired smart watch?

guillow — Thu, 18 May 2017 04:04:06 GMT

Thanks for the information here, although I wonder if I could add a comment. In the USA you can have another sim card for the LG watch sport that then has a function such as "Numbersync". That way calls and texts come from the same phone number despite being on 2 different sim cards.

The benefit is that you can go without a phone and do everything you need to do for short trips. Really the future of watches as the hardware and software improves. Then you can pair a bluetooth headset to the watch and you can be phone-less for many features.

Is it possible for PublicMobile to have this numbersync function?

Re: Additional SIM card for paired smart watch?

srlawren — Thu, 18 May 2017 15:47:38 GMT

@guillow I would find it very unlikely that we will get that type of functionality any time in the foreseeable future. Please always remember that PM is a no-frills provider. They offer the basic talk, text, and data plans, simply and well, with very few extras offered. As much as I'd love to see some additional features like this, I wouldn't hold my breath to be honest.

Re: Additional SIM card for paired smart watch?

guillow — Thu, 25 May 2017 03:36:33 GMT

Yeah, good point @srlawren. Although, I wonder if the functionality depends on complexity of the solution and it's implementation.

If numbersync was somehow an easy to plugin software solution on the provider side, perhaps it would make business sense for this functionality if enough people start asking for it 😉

I unfortunately don't know much about the complexities of such a solution...I sure wish it were easy though 😄

Re: Additional SIM card for paired smart watch?

martin8 — Sun, 15 Sep 2019 05:23:50 GMT

I think, as soon as there are reasonable priced plans out for smart phones, for just basic phone, text and a tiny bit of data { read push notifications } with the same phone number as the phone,it will skyrocket, the phones themselves have already dropped a lot in price now, in my case i have to add to my monthly plan $ 70 a month, yup that is every month, that's way more as i want to spend.

It is also witholding me at this moment from buying a smart watch, and i did get the impression in the last week, while gathering info in stores, that a whole lot of people think the same way

Re: Additional SIM card for paired smart watch?

Korth — Sun, 15 Sep 2019 06:04:58 GMT

Not all smartwatches have physical SIM card slots, some have embedded eSIMs which cannot be replaced or reprogrammed. Which means locked to one carrier forever. And means this carrier is not Public Mobile (because they do not sell any devices, with or without eSIMs).

Why can't these wearables be linked/tethered through Bluetooth or WiFi? Question was asked above but not yet answered. Today's technology is easily able to accommodate low-cost high-density (and FCC-approved) bandwidth for realtime biometric sensors, onboard processing, etc, so it seems like there's no technical reason to prevent it.

Re: Additional SIM card for paired smart watch?

martin8 — Mon, 06 Jan 2020 19:49:38 GMT

Just like you, just waiting for affordability on a plan, this also with holds me from buying a smart watch at this moment, the little bit of use, come's with a 70 dollar jump in a monthly plan, well i'm not going that way, as many others don't

Re: Additional SIM card for paired smart watch?

martin8 — Mon, 06 Jan 2020 20:05:04 GMT

PM has easy access to the same technologie as Telus, i hope it is just a matter of time {hopefully not long} before PM rolls out similar plans.

as for the phone 's themselves, so very much can be put into a chip, a digital simcard, is peanuts, and it takes up no space inside the watch.

I think, the business plan is, to serve all people with deep wallets { no issue's with expensive plans} and when those sales start dropping serve the general public, with affordable smart watches together with affordable plans { after all it's just business }