Cricket works with my AT&T version

[spw303]

Hello everyone. I have been following all the threads closely regarding my new Urbane 2 (re-release) watch. Hopefully this can help others if your looking for full connectivity on the cheap other than using Truphone.

My cricket ($35 Unlimited talk and text with 2.5GB) sim is working with the watch. I can make calls, send texts and receive emails when not connected via Bluetooth or Wi-Fi to my phone. If I leave my phone connected to t-mobile LTE service at home or at my office when i escape for lunch everything is coming through to my watch. This is very cool as it is all pre-paid at the total monthly cost will be $65.00 out the door.

So to recap my setup:

In my watch I have a Cricket Wireless nano sim setup @ $40 for Unlimited Talk, Text and 2.5GB with a $5.00 discount for auto-pay, so $35.00. Then in my S7 edge phone I have the t-mobile prepaid plan (available at walmart only btw) $30 for 100 minutes and 5Gb data. This is $30.00 per month.

Its working correctly. YAY!

 

[StimulatorCam]

Just curious, but any reason you wouldn't get the T-mobile plan for each if it's $5 cheaper and has more data?

 

[spw303]

Well the t-mobile plan is only 100 minutes for talk. The cricket plan is unlimited talk and text. I use my watch as my primary communication device for talk and text messages.

Also I found if I put the t-mobile sim in the watch I never seem to get LTE signal, only 3G. Just assumed LTE was better for the watch. Not sure if it is or not though.

This way I can talk and text using my watch as long as I want, battery life permitting. I use my smartphone for streaming tune-in or other stuff.

I guess more to the point is my intent is to go STANDALONE and leave the phone behind for as cheap as I can?

 

[StimulatorCam]

Yes that makes sense. So far I've only just swapped my phone sim to my watch and only using wifi on my phone, but I think I'd like to have at least some plan on the phone as well. Unfortunately I'm in Canada and all of our plans are horrible. For $40 CDN you get about 300-500 minutes but only 300-500mb of data.

 

[Rukbat]

Just assumed LTE was better for the watch. Not sure if it is or not though.

Not for the watch. Better for you if you're downloading large files. (Voice is 2G, so what the watch could do, if voice were 4G, is irrelevant.)

 

[json405]

That's good to know. Just another plan available for the watch is great! Did you try to go to a tmobile store and try to activate their wearable plan for $15. That has unlimited talk and text too with 500mb which is actually more than enough data.

 

[Rukbat]

Not really, although I had dinner (fantastic IPA) across the street from a TMobile dealer. No need for a watch on top of the one I wear. If I can't pick up the phone, I'm in a situation in which I wouldn't want to be on a phone call (like driving a car).

 

[afblangley]

I use my watch as my primary communication device for talk and text messages.

So essentially, your watch is your phone. How is that working for you, in general? Is the battery sufficient to last a full day connected to Bluetooth headset with lots of talk time?

 

[xendula]

That's good to know. Just another plan available for the watch is great! Did you try to go to a tmobile store and try to activate their wearable plan for $15. That has unlimited talk and text too with 500mb which is actually more than enough data.

I could never make that plan work on my watch, sadly. Tmo told me all kinds of reasons during my bazilion phone calls with them, the last one being that only Tmo watches work with the tmo plan (so basically only the Gear S and S2).

 

[alnova1]

I'm only getting 3G on Cricket also. Is there something I'm doing wrong? My APN is correct btw.