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posted by martyb on Thursday September 21 2017, @01:07AM   Printer-friendly
from the watch-out! dept.

The major feature of the third iteration of the Apple Watch, LTE cellular connectivity, can fail due to a bug involving Wi-Fi. This problem has been reflected in reviews of the device:

The new Apple Watch is mostly an iterative update over its predecessor, but for one major feature: LTE. The addition of cellular connectivity has been touted as everything from "nice" to "game changing," but reviewers appear to have early issues in testing. I didn't run into any in my own testing, but the Verge reported some big hiccups connecting to the cellular network on the device.

An Apple spokeswoman confirmed the problem with TechCrunch, stating, "We have discovered that when Apple Watch Series 3 joins unauthenticated Wi-Fi networks without connectivity, it may at times prevent the watch from using cellular. We are investigating a fix for a future software release."

The LTE also does not work if you take the device to another country.

Also at The Verge, Fox Business (WSJ/Dow Jones reprint), and Fortune.


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  • (Score: 2) by takyon on Thursday September 21 2017, @09:15PM

    by takyon (881) <takyonNO@SPAMsoylentnews.org> on Thursday September 21 2017, @09:15PM (#571409) Journal

    Apple are past done. They were successful when Jobs ran things, twice. There is no third time. They are finished.

    Revenue US$215.639 billion (2016)
    Net income US$45.687 billion (2016)
    Total assets US$321.686 billion (2016)

    That's better than Google and they have to do much worse than that to become like IBM.

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