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Apple Admits To Apple Watch LTE Problems Just Before It Ships (theverge.com)
Lauren Goode, reporting for The Verge: Apple's new Series 3 smartwatch starts shipping this Friday, and the biggest feature change between last year's model and this new Watch is that it has built-in cellular capabilities. Except, that cell service isn't entirely reliable. While writing my review of the Apple Watch Series 3 with LTE capabilities, I experienced notable connectivity issues. The new Watch appeared to try to connect to unknown WiFi networks instead of connecting to cellular, when I was out and about without my phone. Within the first couple days of experiencing this, Apple replaced my first review unit with a second one, but that one proved to be problematic, too. Eventually, the company issued an official statement, acknowledging the issue. "We have discovered that when Apple Watch Series 3 joins unauthenticated Wi-Fi networks without connectivity, it may at times prevent the watch from using cellular," an Apple spokesperson said in an emailed statement. "We are investigating a fix for a future software release."
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Apple Watch is an appy app apping device, so of course it won't connect to LUDDITE Telephone Exchanges! ONLY apps can app apps!
Apps!
I go buy a new car, or a house, or something else. Oh! Sorry, the horn won't work, the doors on your house won't shut or some other thing. But, not to worry, we'll fix it at a later date. Tell me people would put up with that?
iPhones also connect to wireless networks (and with the right settings on their own to user unauthorized ones) with no connectivity and you will suffer from no data access as the phone fails to use its cellular connection. Further if the phone has wifi calling enabled you will miss calls and texts while connected to the network. It would seem like a simple matter to disregard the wifi network if it had no actual connection to the internet but it is what it is.
Well worth the premium price.
SystemD
... and they'd buy a turd on a stick if it came with an Apple logo, so you think they care if there's some minor connectivity issue?
How in the world is this news? This happens with your phone as well. If your smartphone "connects to an unauthenticated Wi-Fi network without connectivity" you get, no surprise, no connectivity. Because it uses the wi-fi device as the default route if it has one available.
Unless they shit the bed in the design and don't give you a way to turn off wi-fi separately, this isn't any more of a flaw than all of our phones.
The same reviewer also complains that after putting their paired phone into airplane mode and then walking around with the watch that they couldn't get connectivity. Well, that's how the darn thing works -- it automatically goes into airplane mode when you put your phone in airplane mode. Because it thinks you are on a plane...
This seems like a blogger looking for clicks.
I am not interested in articles about life extension advancements.
Get an Apple Watch Series 2 before Apple takes them off the market.
And if it turns out to be a hardware issue?
Care killed the cat, but satisfaction brought it back.
Morgan Freeman (yeah that 'black' actor) just declared that the USA is at war with Russia in a video jointly paid for by Team Clinton and Team McCain. Yes the neo-liberals and neo-cons so beloved of the owners of slashdot and its remaining fans have decided to front their FAKE NEWS material with famous celebs- cos you know nothing says 'truth' more than the ravings of a celeb.
But there is a fantastic twist to this story. Freeman- a 21st Century 'House Slave' actually states that America was a shining beacon to the rest of the world during all the years it enslaved 'black' people just because their skin was 'black'. Don't believe me- go watch the video. The part about 241 years. Which I know will trouble you disgusting SJW types, since you can't do maths. But that's the period beginning with American 'independence'- you know when Americans threw of the shackles of British rules because US slave owners didn't like the growing anti-slavery sentiment in Britain at the time.
Morgan Freeman is glorifying 'democracy' that defined 'black' women as literal RAPE SLAVES. Here's a true story for you. In the middle of the 19th Century a yound heavily pregant girl (14) killed her master when he tried to rape her yet again. She already had several children from rape. She went to court in the USA. The court- a senior court operating under direct instructions from the US Supreme Court- ruled that her master had the right to rape her at any time, and thus her defence was invalid. She was hung the following Christmas.
It is still legal in the USA to execute children. But to a house slave like Morgan Freeman, reading the obscene script provided to him by his jewish master, Rob Reiner (yes, Rob Reiner produced this video- that famous 'liberal Hollywood Rob Reiner- don't believe me go check) is more important than honouring the memories of the tens of millions of 'black' slaves who suffered under that "shining beacon" of US democracy.
Is this a 'tech' story? Well the racist filth that made this video are using the services of Google to distribute it, so yeah. And of course, on Youtube, comments are disabled. But the owners of slashdot know when their side has produced a real stinker- so don't expect a headline here. Instead such vile propaganda is aimed at the hard of thinking- the average Clinton voter.
Team Clinton hates 'black' people more than the KKK. During Clinton's destruction of Libya, the CIA, under her direct instruction, released psy-op propaganda into Libya stating that 'black' people living in Libya were actually 'Gadaffi mercenaries'. As an intended consequence, long statnding 'black' communites were utterly wiped out Gadaffi had created a fair secular society where all 'races' were equal. Clinton's wahhabi terror gangs brought Saudi 'justice' to Libya- and now Libya is just another hellhole where America recruits wahhabi terrorists for use in targets like Syria.
In the 19th Century, leading US politicians paraded 'house slaves' like Morgan Freeman to 'prove' that slavery was 'good' for the 'african'. Today Team Clinton has just done the same thing with Morgan Freeman.
wifi problems, not LTE problems. perhaps "connectivity problems"
disable the WIFI?
If that's what this is, because it could actually be qualified as a feature since WiFi has a higher preference over cellular connection. It's a complex product and will go through a series of patches as users uncover untested scenarios. Trolls just can't pass the opportunity. (Disclaimer: I don't owe an Apple device; I write software for living)
My I-Phone and I-Pad both with LTE built in have issues when connecting to WiFi networks that have no internet connection. I'm sure the watch has a similar issue.
The problem I have is that it keeps trying to connect to something with an internet connection, even when I tell it to not use the LTE connection for data. Maybe what I'm doing is just weird but I really DON'T want the device searching for a data connection by disconnecting from the current WiFi access point at times. Most of the time this behavior is fine, but I need to be able to keep the device locked on a single WiFi access point, regardless of if a better connection might exist at specific times.
Why they put LTE chips in that watch is beyond me anyway. The battery life of a watch is already less than my normal awake day so you have to charge it nightly, adding a new power consumer doesn't seem like a good idea. Just let the Apple watch use the associated I-Phone (over blue tooth) or a local WiFi AP if available like it does now. Works great for me like that. What I really want from the Apple Watch is more battery life.
still catching up to Andriod technology. It seems like the only 'new' thing they've introduced is wireless ear buds... wait I have a Motorola headset that is wireless. Wireless charging? nope. Smartwatch celluar? nope. Seems like they are banking on all they work they've done in the past.
Fat, drunk, and stupid is no way to go through life, son.
If the product is defective, don't buy it.
Seems in this case its nice to be able to address one vendor regarding product issues; versus getting the finger pointing or runaround towards other vendors or organizations who are not involved both with the hardware and software business.
So, a company finds major problem in a product before it ships, and admits to it publicly. Do they then:
1. Delay the shipping date until the product is fixed, or;
2. Ship the broken product as originally planned anyway?
If the company values its customers, then 1. If the company thinks "fuck the customers" then 2.
I wonder what Apple will do...
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