Actually, I am RIGHT!!...And your are Mistaken...
#1 - Samsung Smartwatches ARE NOT Android Smartwatches. Samsung uses their own Smart watch technology called "Tizen" (feel free to Google it). The Verizon Message App is compatible with Samsung's Tizen Software and It is also compatible with Apple Smartwatch Software, but it isn't compatible with Android Smartwatch Software. #2 - Even though the Verizon App is compatible with Samsung Tizen Software, you still CANNOT make any phone calls from your watch as A Stand Alone Device, because Verizon disabled their Integrated Calling Feature. However, you can still make calls if your watch is connected to your phone via Bluetooth. If you go back to my 1st comment and click on the attached link you will see The Verizon Rep confirming that the feature is disabled. There are also plenty of Topics on this site involving Samsung Smart watch users who can't make calls on their watch as a Stand Alone Device because the feature is disabled....Feel Free to Research It
There are 2 different services.
Intigrated calling and messaging is for tablets and android wear. It connects to your main number with vzw messaging. Calling has been disabled for android wear, but still works on my iPad (I use a s9 on my main number).
connected devices - this is for the Samsung watches. You can go to manage connected devices on my Verizon and drag your Samsung Lte watch to your main phone number and they will link on the back end. Calling and texting works fine. I can make and receive calls and send texts from my main phones number through my s3 even if my main phone is turned off.
Unfortunatlly most vzw workers are not tech nerds, there sales people and moms/dads, so they don’t really care about small things that most people don’t use.
Sometimes you you will find someone That knows more than most in the store because they use and love the technology.
Is this getting frustrating to anyone else?
I love my Samsung Phones and Watches, but if we can't get them or not told when we can.
I'll have to either switch to T-Mobile or Buy an iPhone and iWatch. Neither option I like, but maybe T-Mobile is the way to go.
Someone please post the Galaxy Watch LTE VERIZON release date???
Thanks!
My guess is anytime in the next 6 months.
I'm sure it's stuck in Verizon testing right now.
it looks like Best Buy has an unlocked version that they're selling but don't have in stock there is a high likelihood that will work on Verizon.
It's not guaranteed though.
Sent from my Verizon, Samsung Galaxy smartphone
Just curious because I just recently switched from an Apple to the Note 9 ... ... I dont care about using the watch for phone calls as I have it with me throughout the day in my office. I just want to be able to wear the watch while running (without taking my phone) and stream spotify or podcasts while also using a running app on the watch to track gps and have the music play through blue tooth headphones. I think I need to wait until the LTE version from verizon comes out correct? The Frontier will do this now correct?
Yes, i have the S3 Frontier Lte and i use it mostly for the activities you mentioned. However, I didnt wait to purchase the watch from Verizon last year because it took them too long to offer it, so i purchased the t-mobile S3 watch. You can download spotify but to scream it live you have to pay for a premium subscription, or you can just download music to your watch or earbuds(the samsung wireless earbuds are great but a bit pricey). I have not used the gps on the s3 nor have i used any other health/exercise app other than the ones provided by Samsung Gear. Lately, I experience some connection problems screaming spotify from my watch thru my earbuds. I don't know if the problem is with the t-mobile connection or spotify or the earbuds so i just listen to the music downloaded on my watch and/or earbuds.
I purchase Apple Watch Series 3 from my local Verizon store three weeks ago.
Provided it receives the cellular signal, I am able to make and receive calls without
it being synced to my phone. Remember that due to the small size it will not receive
the cellular signal as good as a cellphone.
I currently have 2 Gear S2 watches connected to Verizon. I FREQUENTLY leave my phone at the house and get calls from my phone # to my watch. My watch itself also has its OWN #. I DO NOT get texts that go to my phone on my watch UNLESS I am connected to the watch. I CAN however, get texts to my watches # as long as I have a "cellular" signal.
I get my calls from my phone INSTANTLY on the watch when connected to phone, and after 3 rings if i don't answer my phone the call is forwarded to my watch.
This is accomplished through the Gear app. I tell the app to turn on forwarding, the app then makes the *72 or #72 (or whatever the forwarding thing to do is, and u can hear the Verizon recording saying "calls will be forwarded to (and it states the number). This is how I get calls from my phone on my watch, if I were to leave my phone at home and go 100 miles (or any distance) away from my phone for that matter.
Also, the person doesn't also know that much about Samsung & Tizen/Android. Samsung actually made 3 Android smartwatches. The VERY FIRST run of the (Original) Samsung Galaxy Gear Smartwatch ran 4.2 Jellybean (they then switched to Tizen for the later ones) and had links showing you how to change the OS from Android to Tizen, the Gear Live, and the Gear Fit.
Even in his post he ADMITS that most of the Verizon Reps are tech geeks. So that shows why he can't get his watch to work on Verizon.
If the watch is not connected to Verizon for more than 6 months, the esim (as they don't have ACTUAL sim cards) get "RETIRED" by Verizon (and other carriers) so you can't connect to a carrier anymore. This is fairly new though.
So if we go back like 1 year, you could buy a used carrier connected smartwatch that had been sitting for 7 months not "active" on a line and call your carrier and have it connected.
The carriers now have changed that. So if you buy a used Carrier capable smartwatch now that has not been active on a line for more than 6 months. No matter what carrier you have they can't activate it.
This DOES NOT apply to a watch you CURRENTLY have connected (at the time of this post) or a BRAND NEW smartwatch. A Referb is still used so the 6 month still applies.
As stated, my Gesr S2s have thier OWN number with Verizon. My friend who just within the last week bought from Verizon a Gear S3 Frontier from Verizon and his watch makes and receives calls to his phone #. His watch DOES NOT have it's own #. That is because his is connected as a "shared number". So when he leaves his phone at home (or in his case usually dead battery) he gets his calls and texts. And as I said earlier, my watch only gets texts if I'm connected to my phone, or my closest family/friends text my watches number.
Moral of this, do your research on what I'm saying and that person is saying. I'm 100% CONFIDENT that you'll find s/he's FULL of "IT"!!!!
Sure. You need Gear Manager app running on the phone, but texts and notifications ns come through. And you can create and reply to texts as if from the main phone. I used a t-mobile S3 with my VZW Galaxy S8 for mi tgs until VZW came out with an S3. The only hiccup us call forwarding is kind of clunky, but it works.
It will surely not be until we'll after the new Apple Watch is out. VZW puts every other product behind every competing Apple product. I just can't figure out why Samsung puts up with VZW's 3rd class treament
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