[ale] somewhat OT - are Android Smartwatch Bluetooth notifiers safe?

[Chuck Payne]

A $3 watch, do you have a link, I love to get one for my son. He keeps
trying to take my Samsung S and S3 that I have paired with my Note 4. One
thing about those smart watches I don't like is, that you have to pay $5
buck a month for data plan. Yes, they do have a telephone number. Yes, I
can make calls like Dick Tracy on it. Honestly the pairing and wireless are
enough. I can use Wifi, and my Note will connect to the watch remote if I
am not close enough for BT.

I love my watches, I am on T-Mobile as well, been with them since they were
VoiceStream. I have my S, before iWatch came out it nice to be able to sit
in meetings and see alerts with out my phone making a lot of noise.

What I would be worried about, and this is just me, if there any malware
spying on you, you did say you got the watch from China.

On Tue, Mar 7, 2017 at 5:59 PM, DJ-Pfulio <DJPfulio at jdpfu.com> wrote:

> On 03/07/2017 05:25 PM, Joey Kelly wrote:
> > <snip>
> >>  Just for fun, I ordered an
> >> $8 SIM card to hook up with the $3/mo Tmobile service.
> >
> > Huh? What do they provide for three measly dollars?
> >
>
> Access to their network on a PAYG plan.
>
> 30 minutes and 10 texts allowed, I think. Never use them.  Zero data,
> but you can add a 7-day 1G data plan for non-roaming locations for $10.
> "Roaming" has burned me a few times - OBX and Alaska are "roaming" and
> not covered in the $10 data add-on, for example. They wouldn't refund my
> money - I'd used 50 bytes to verify the data was enabled in Portland on
> the way.
>
> I have wifi almost everywhere. Can't see a need to have data plan most
> of the time. Plenty of off-line apps, plus ads don't get in the way or
> suck data.
>
> Sorta shocked about the SIM cost. I've always gotten one free or for $1.
>
> BTW, I've been on the t-mbl PAYG plan since 2007. It used to be better.
> No monthly costs, pay just for minutes used. Bought $10/yr for about 8
> yrs, that was it, before they changed it to $2.95/month in late 2015.
> $48/yr is pretty reasonable for an emergency cell phone, IMHO.  My
> prepaid account expires yearly, so just put $50/yr on it.  I figure most
> people are paying $50+/month, so adding the $10/wk for data during
> travel is a bargain!
>
> But it is t-mobile and sometimes the coverage does suck completely.
> OTOH, in those places pretty much every cell networks suck including
> verizon and AT&T.
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