Does anyone use the S3 on a separate number?

[utupelo]

Does anyone use the S3 on a separate number? I'm thinking of using my personal cell number with the S3 Frontier so I don't have to carry two phones. Will it still sync (show phone calls, answer, show texts) with my work phone which I will be carrying?

 

[specularius]

If connected with your work phone by bluetooth, it should do what you want.

After re-reading your question, I am not sure. To verify, you are wanting to have your Gear S3 Numbersync with your personal phone, but get notifications from your work phone? I am clueless on if this will work.

 

[utupelo]

Yeah, That's what I'd like. Leave the personal phone at home, receive calls and texts on the watch but also get notifications from the work cell. I don't need to answer work call on the watch.

 

[afblangley]

OK, let me make sure I understand. You want the S3 to act as a standalone phone- you give out the watch's number and people call or text directly to it. That will certainly work. In addition, you want to pair it with a smartphone to receive other notifications. That will also work. I don't know about NumberSync, but simple call forwarding can route incoming calls to the smartphone to the watch. If your peeps call your watch number it rings only the watch, if your customers call your work cell number it rings the watch and phone.

To the extent that you're OK with your "personal phone" S3, being essentially a dumb phone, while the smart aspect of the S3 is derived from your company smartphone, it will work. If you are allowed to put personal stuff (ie. email, FB, Twitter) on the company smartphone you'll have access to that from the S3. If not, then smartwatch dependent functionality of the S3 won't be accessible on the personal side.

 

[utupelo]

Yes. The personal cell (S7 Edge) has been staying home for quite a while now. I can load anything I want on the work phone (S7 Active). I have retrained most of my personal contacts to ring me on my work cell and I use call forwarding for those that don't. I occasionally miss a text to my personal cell though. No biggie. Just trying to figure out what I could do. If you go into the AT&T store do they put a sim in the watch to enable the independent calling? If so is it some kind of clone of the sim in your phone?

 

[utupelo]

I don't think its gonna work. The watch needs to be linked to the phone through Gear Manager and in my experience Gear Manager only allows one device to be linked to the phone at one time. So if I linked to my personal cell I couldn't link it to my work cell. I'll probably pick one up anyway.

 

[afblangley]

I read somewhere that one S3 could be hooked up to two separate watches. If so, that would solve your problem. I don't know whether that's true or not.

I do know that the Frontier LTE can operate as a standalone phone without any connection to a smartphone. Although the functionality of an S3 in standalone mode is limited when not tethered, it can make and receive calls independently via the number assigned to its eSIM.