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<A HREF="http://www.gearbest.com/cell-phones/pp_174048.html?wid=21">http://www.gearbest.com/cell-phones/pp_174048.html?wid=21</A> is a link to the watch I bought. It is $10.99 with free shipping to the US. ( I had some bonus points left from buying a SJCAM. That's why it was just $3 for me. <BR>
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This is just a curiosity for me. My understanding is that for $3/mo I can have some very limited amount of voice phone time from TMobile. Like for the dozens of times I'm out somewhere and my normal android phone is dead again. If I never run their software to send emails from android phone to the watch it's still ok. <BR>
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Without knowing how old your son is, be aware that there are similar phone/watches more oriented to children: they include GPS location, and a panic button to dial a set number and .... I've not researched them; I just ran across some on Amazon. <BR>
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A $3 watch, do you have a link, I love to get one for my son. He keeps trying to take my Samsung S and S3 that I have paired with my Note 4. One thing about those smart watches I don't like is, that you have to pay $5 buck a month for data plan. Yes, they do have a telephone number. Yes, I can make calls like Dick Tracy on it. Honestly the pairing and wireless are enough. I can use Wifi, and my Note will connect to the watch remote if I am not close enough for BT. <BR>
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I love my watches, I am on T-Mobile as well, been with them since they were VoiceStream. I have my S, before iWatch came out it nice to be able to sit in meetings and see alerts with out my phone making a lot of noise.
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What I would be worried about, and this is just me, if there any malware spying on you, you did say you got the watch from China.
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On Tue, Mar 7, 2017 at 5:59 PM, DJ-Pfulio <<A HREF="mailto:DJPfulio@jdpfu.com">DJPfulio@jdpfu.com</A>> wrote:<BR>
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On 03/07/2017 05:25 PM, Joey Kelly wrote:<BR>
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>> Just for fun, I ordered an<BR>
>> $8 SIM card to hook up with the $3/mo Tmobile service.<BR>
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> Huh? What do they provide for three measly dollars?<BR>
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Access to their network on a PAYG plan.<BR>
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30 minutes and 10 texts allowed, I think. Never use them. Zero data,<BR>
but you can add a 7-day 1G data plan for non-roaming locations for $10.<BR>
"Roaming" has burned me a few times - OBX and Alaska are "roaming" and<BR>
not covered in the $10 data add-on, for example. They wouldn't refund my<BR>
money - I'd used 50 bytes to verify the data was enabled in Portland on<BR>
the way.<BR>
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I have wifi almost everywhere. Can't see a need to have data plan most<BR>
of the time. Plenty of off-line apps, plus ads don't get in the way or<BR>
suck data.<BR>
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Sorta shocked about the SIM cost. I've always gotten one free or for $1.<BR>
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BTW, I've been on the t-mbl PAYG plan since 2007. It used to be better.<BR>
No monthly costs, pay just for minutes used. Bought $10/yr for about 8<BR>
yrs, that was it, before they changed it to $2.95/month in late 2015.<BR>
$48/yr is pretty reasonable for an emergency cell phone, IMHO. My<BR>
prepaid account expires yearly, so just put $50/yr on it. I figure most<BR>
people are paying $50+/month, so adding the $10/wk for data during<BR>
travel is a bargain!<BR>
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But it is t-mobile and sometimes the coverage does suck completely.<BR>
OTOH, in those places pretty much every cell networks suck including<BR>
verizon and AT&T.
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