Sammuel1973
Well-known member
Thanks, but according to what was explained to me at a local AT&T store and from watching a Russian YouTube video, you get a separate sim card for the Gear S, so you don't need to remove the back of your phone and your Gear S to put in the same sim card.You can buy the Gear S and don't use any SIM card or swap the SIM card between your phone and Gear S. You just can't have both with SIM cards. That will require change to your account.
I seriously doubt Gear S will be $300 off contract on AT&T. We will see. Since Gear S is 3G only, at worst, we can still buy the T-Mo version and use it on AT&T. No sure what kind of bands these will support as T-Mo requires AWS support.
The original spec for Gear S (GSM) shows only dual bands: either 900/1800 or 850/1900. This will make it truly useless (for stand alone use) for those travel internationally. For US, 850/1900 works for AT&T but a lot of T-Mo 3G towers are still on AWS (1700/2100).
Also, the rep at AT&T had a cheat sheet that said 4G connectivity, not 3G. Apparently so does TMobile. Here's a snapshot: