Poll: *** The official Apple Watch Series 8 thread (it can detect when you crash your car and everything!) ***

Which Apple Watch Series 8 will you get?

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Feek said:
What do you mean? There’s no physical sim for the Apple Watch.
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It’s not the sim/esim, it’s the antenna thats built into the watch. The one in the USA doesn’t have the ability to connect to our masts in the UK (or ROW for that matter.).

So There’s two different antennas in two different models - same for the s8 and SE. Neither of them cover all LTE and UMTS bands. So if you take your watch bought here to the states you can’t use it on it’s own, you need your phone with you.

In the ultras case a Model A2622 is for America, Canada, Mexico, Puerto Rico and Ecaudor that doesn’t do LTE 3/7/20 which is required for EE/o2 - https://kenstechtips.com/index.php/uk-network-frequency-bands

Where as the ROW model A2684 does the 20.

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To cover the LTE and UMTS bands used around the world, there are two separate cellular models for Apple Watch Series 8, Apple Watch SE and Apple Watch Ultra. They have been optimised for use in the country of purchase, and not all models work in all countries or regions. There is no single model that supports cellular service worldwide. To see which network providers in your country or region offer cellular service for Apple Watch, refer to the chart below.

www.apple.com

Apple Watch - Network Providers

Apple Watch with cellular. Go with just your watch — make calls, get messages, stream music. See if Apple Watch works with networks in your country.
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Anyone ever had issues with 'wireless signal too weak for Apple Watch to unlock this Mac'?? I'm trying to work out how they watch directly communicates to the Mac. Is it bluetooth or wifi? I've tried putting them both on the same 2.4 network but presumably it doesn't even communicate through the router anyway as that wouldn't make sense. I know the Mini bluetooth is patchy anyway so maybe that's why it doesn't work half the time?
 
dannyjo22 said:
Anyone ever had issues with 'wireless signal too weak for Apple Watch to unlock this Mac'?? I'm trying to work out how they watch directly communicates to the Mac. Is it bluetooth or wifi? I've tried putting them both on the same 2.4 network but presumably it doesn't even communicate through the router anyway as that wouldn't make sense. I know the Mini bluetooth is patchy anyway so maybe that's why it doesn't work half the time?
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Ventura 13.3.1 (released today) has this in the release notes as a 'resolved issue'

"- Auto Unlock your Mac with Apple Watch may not work"
 
chaparral said:
i been thinking of ordering the watch Ultra with the ocean strap but am a bit stuck on which size strap to pick

My wrist size is roughly 180mm (+/- 5mm)

But am stuck on if i should go for the :confused:
130mm to 200mm strap
145mm to 190mm strap
145mm to 220mm strap



Please any help on this guys
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I ordered the ultra with the midnight ocean strap a few days ago..

I mainly picked the ocean band as I needed at lest one strap that would suffer with no problems with getting wet
and I most likely buy some the other bands at a later date.
 
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Cosmic182 said:
Then you either A: lead a very minimalistic life or B: have no kids :D lol

As mentioned, personally I would rather have it in a piece of “minimal plastic junk” and know it’s protected with my lifestyle. These watches already look like a V tech watch so I don’t think it looks too bad given it has some protection.


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Not sure yet if am going be fitting a screen protector or something on my ultra

The only person I know of who has an ultra watch scratched the screen on it only a few days after buying it while washing the car

And I have seen posts where people have said the ultra casing can get scratched just by the alpine band buckle hitting it while taking the watch off :eek:
 
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What charger stand are you guys that own an ultra using ?

I was thinking of buying one of these but some reviews has said the ultra too heavy for it

Belkin MagSafe 3-in-1 Wireless Charger, 15W iPhone and Apple Watch Fast Charging, AirPods Charging Station for iPhone 14/14 Plus, 13, 12, Pro, Pro Max, Mini, AppleWatch Series 8, 7, SE, Ultra - Black https://amzn.eu/d/7NrSGLd
 
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chaparral said:
What charger stand are you guys that own an ultra using ?

I was thinking of buying one of these but some reviews has said the ultra too heavy for it

Belkin MagSafe 3-in-1 Wireless Charger, 15W iPhone and Apple Watch Fast Charging, AirPods Charging Station for iPhone 14/14 Plus, 13, 12, Pro, Pro Max, Mini, AppleWatch Series 8, 7, SE, Ultra - Black https://amzn.eu/d/7NrSGLd
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That’ll be absolutely fine.

Cross post from other thread -

Reuben klang said:
I originally had this Belkin 3-1 on my bedside table. It’s great. I had no issues with it what so ever apart from it not being portable in any way shape or form.

I travel a lot and have a little bag just for chargers, I had a multi charger and 4 cables - it was a bit of a mare. iphone, watch, AirPods and iPad. It was even worse when you go abroad as I don’t have a quick/easy way of getting the four ports.

Anyway, long story short heres the options.

Bedside table - not portable.

Zen 4-1 if you need to charge iPad. If not Belkin 3-1 (or previous gen above)

The travel options, there is only 2.

The anker 3-1 cube or Mophie 3-1

I went for the anker cube, I now just have to take that a duel port USB-C and 2 USB-C>USB-C cables and job done.
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