Never mind post below. I just tried it AGAIN and NOW if i am even "one inch out of range" the phone i am calling gets the watch's number... Grrrrr Sammy, ONCE again you are making it hard for me to "completely love you", there is NO denying it, you have issues!
Here is my understanding of the fact that the LTE version has its "own" number. You should NEVER have to even "know" what that number is, NOR give it to ANYBODY, NOR (if you have "remote connection" ALWAYS enabled, should ANY caller "EVER" see the watches number, "EVEN if your phone is 100 miles away and you are using the watch to call them (provided your phone is "remotely connected to gear S3 when you last left it SOMEWHERE on the planet and the phone is turned "on" communicating to "some" cell tower"...)
The watch would ONLY rely upon its “own number to make and receive calls, aIF it is unable to remotely receive a signal from your phone, (due to Gear Connection being disabled ie: phone being turned off, out of juice, or ur cat jumped on ur desk and disable bluetooth out of spite for you not being home on time to feed him (yes i have one of THOSE cats : )
I have 3 phones and have tested this thoroughly, and in my 3 weeks of ownership have never experienced a “hiccup” when moving out of range to where my phone is… I get a “quick vibration on my wrist” and the watch tells me it is “now using remote connection” … My Frontier is the T-Mobile version, not sure if that matters.
NOW getting emails & gmaill is "Hiccup City"…. Still waiting for SOMEONE to do a step by step tutorial of what EACH & EVERY setting that needs to be checked so that the you can receive email notifications BOTH places, all the time, regardless of proximity to where phone is….I will make one IF & WHEN I ever figure it all out, but that will prolly not be till the 2525 and we’ll all have chips in our head by then…lol
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