I got a lil tracker pendant to work with a nano SIM from Public Mobile. They also sell watches. Texting to the pendant only worked for setup. I had to change the APN to get data on the device. Phoning worked. There is only one button on the pendant and I set it to call a VOIP number I could redirect to wherever I wanted (home or mobile). School liked that there was only one button as it meant he wasn’t fiddling with it during class.
There was geofencing and tracking but it worked terrible. When GPS took a location measurement it was pretty good, but most of the time it was using Wifi or something and would miss the location by up to 20km.
so it ended up working like a dumb phone that could only call home. That actually worked well for us until it bounced off his bicycle, broke, and the charging pins fell out. Once the battery died that was the end of that and we got an Apple Watch that does better tracking. We will likely have to change carriers, but Public Mobile is making that easier by raising the prices of legacy plans. We had a wifi hotspot that worked with the watch for a while, but then it updated to an advertising landing page and won’t connect to the Apple Watch any more.
Anyways, there are watches that take a nano SIM, but I’m not convinced they work great.
