David Hanak Last week, Apple introduced the Apple Watch Series 3, which also came with a new option for LTE connectivity. This means, among other things, that the new smartwatch is a significantly more self-contained device than previous generations. However, the problem arises when it is an LTE model not available in your home market... In the Czech Republic, we won't really see LTE Series 3 in the coming months, so this news doesn't really concern us, even so, it's something that would be good to know. As it turned out, the Apple Watch Series 3 will only work in the country where its owner bought it.
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Radek Pokora This information appeared on the community forum of the Macrumors server, where one of the readers mentioned it. He was allegedly told by an Apple support representative that Apple Watch Series 3 purchased in the US will only work with four US carriers. If he tries to connect to them over LTE elsewhere in the world, he'll be out of luck.
If you purchased an Apple Watch Series 3 with LTE connection through the US Apple Online Store, they will only work with four domestic carriers. Unfortunately, the watch will not work in other countries around the world. I'm not entirely sure what error the watch would report if you traveled to Germany with it, for example, but it wouldn't be compatible with Telekom's networks.
According to the information provided on Apple's website (and written in small print), the LTE Apple Watch does not support roaming services outside the networks of its "home" operators. So if you're lucky enough to live in a country where LTE Series 3 is available, once you go abroad, the LTE functionality will disappear from the watch. This may be coupled with another limitation found here. This is the limited support of LTE bands.
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The new Apple Watch Series 3 with LTE functionality is currently available in Australia, Canada, China, France, Germany, Japan, Puerto Rico, Switzerland, the US and the UK. Availability should expand next year. However, how things are going with the Czech Republic is in the stars, as domestic operators do not currently support eSIM.
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Hmm, the absence of roaming is quite significantly limited. I have a German Telekom service number, so I thought about buying the LTE version of the watch in Germany. Anyway, I'm working in Denmark for a long time and if the watch doesn't work here with LTE, then it will probably just be a waste of money for LTE :-(….
I fear the times when similarly hidden restrictions will be applied to all devices, not just Apple. poor steve. But who is the other visionary Musk? he probably won't start working in telecommunications. I have everything from apples that are two or more years old. then everything works but what to buy and there is no replacement. I guess we old-timers have a hard time and have to prepare and live with what we have.
And what are you wondering? the watch can't do 2G, it can only do 3G and LTE.
LTE is generally different with support, VoLTE will always work for you, it just doesn't work with your home operator while roaming. The main attraction of the watch is that it can be used to make calls, which is technically not possible due to VoLTE, so they banned it across the board.
It seems quite logical to me that these restrictions will be removed over time. That you see it as fascism and closed-mindedness is paranoid.
It's true that it can also use 3G. Therefore, I see no reason why they should not be able to roam directly via 3G. Of course, VoLTE is out. Not everywhere is the 3G network as leaky as here.
I don't know if you are limited by this, I see fascism and by closed I mean me. Anyway, I'll try to respond to it logically. This restriction for roaming does not seem too logical to me. I would understand if it was about launching the service only in the US and not in other countries. In the USA, people move within the framework of the federation in large, but they are still in their home network. In Europe, where up to 190 million can currently use it. people. Many of them travel abroad (tourism, work, shopping) within the framework of the Union, thus moving in different networks. For this reason, I would welcome true roaming. Another thing that amazes me is that in Europe, in most countries, mobile operators operate with the same international mother. Is this LTE technology available in the Watch for one daughter and not for the other? This is strange and considering that, in my opinion, it is mainly a software limitation, it again seems illogical to me.
Each network is set up differently, the purchase of HW is often handled individually, so the fact that, for example, O2 in Norway has Nokia base stations does not mean that it will not have Huawei in Slovakia, so "they have one mother" is simply a bad argument, after all, the markets are it's still separate, they each have separate licenses and the conditions are different in different countries (don't get confused with the fact that we are overpriced, that's another song) so you really won't have one setup for the whole of Europe.
3G is absolute nonsense for wearables, it has a worse response, it is at higher frequencies, so it is harder to penetrate the terrain, it is more energy demanding. I also have a lot of problems with my phone in neighboring Germany on the outskirts of cities, and the phone constantly switches between 2G, 3G and 4G (outskirts of Munich), so I wouldn't really dare to say that it's not that leaky - yes, on paper they have better coverage, but in practice the network is very difficult to use. And Apple obviously makes decisions according to the rule "either it will work well or we won't put it there at all", so I'm not at all surprised by this decision. And it is precisely the gluttony that is decisive for watches, they have a much smaller battery and especially an antenna, 3G is unusable outside city centers. This is what users would complain about. Besides, I'm surprised that he put any support for 3G there at all. From my point of view, it is quite illogical and absolutely inappropriate for a smartwatch type device. I also can't imagine what 3G will do to the battery in real life, if even with LTE the endurance is within hours.
I completely understand your "I would welcome" but it simply does not take into account the real situation. If VoLTE has to be approved for each network for each device separately, a lot of parameters need to be adjusted, and then testing is simply not realistic so that some watches, which are limited by battery and antenna size much more than phones, are suddenly functional throughout Europe .
The process of expanding VoLTE is lengthy, obviously demanding and has a lot of limitations today (see the lack of roaming), after all, just remember when the first phones with this function were introduced but no networks were ready for it. I'm not saying that it's like that forever, in two years maybe they'll sort it out reasonably and unify it, but you have to be very naive to think that the watches will work everywhere, when even phones haven't solved this after a few years. And be aware that to this day, LTE does not offer us the same as 2G, although the calls have somehow been solved, but the SMSes are still being sent.
What you write here seems unrealistic to me. Do you really think that Apple will change its production according to which country it will make the watch for? ?
What kind of nonsense are you writing? Australia, France, Germany, Japan, UK and Switzerland have the same frequency for LTE and UMTS (so does the Czech Republic)! In other words, the S3 Cellular model purchased in Germany should be activated in Japan as well. So they will also work in other countries, if the operators allow it. But if you buy a watch in the US, it won't work in Europe and China, but it will certainly work in Canada and Puerto Rico. The problem is that the chip is too small, which is why it cannot switch frequencies, and thus it is produced in 3 versions, viz. https://www.apple.com/watch/cellular/ . Roaming is confirmed to be unavailable.
Thanks for the addition, LTE and UMTS bands are one thing, but what about switching to another operator in a foreign country? Will the AW3 purchased in Germany (and connected to Telekom) also work in, for example, Japan? In other words, will the eSIM functionality transfer to another operator in another country? Otherwise, thanks for the correction!
What do you mean by switching to an operator in a foreign country?
1/ Roaming does not work on the watch, so in a foreign country the watch must be paired with a phone that has roaming enabled in order to make calls from it.
2/ If you think that you will activate some kind of domestic tariff in Germany and then move to the UK, where you will want to use the watch activated in Germany, then the question is for Apple. The operator's data should be uploaded to the eSIM, so the assumption is that it will work, but how it will turn out in practice will be shown in practice.
Hello,
I want to ask, my friend is in the USA and if he buys me an Apple watch 3 without the SIM (LTE), will it work normally in the Czech Republic?
Can anyone verify how much memory the AW LTE has for music? The total memory is 16GB...