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

Chuck Payne terrorpup at gmail.com
Wed Mar 8 12:45:08 EST 2017


Neal,

My son is 12 going on 13. He has a nice LG phone I found at Wally World for
$30 dollars,I wasn't going to buy him a $300 to $600 phone. All I had to do
what replace the prepaid sim with a sim I could add to my account, his
phone is $10 a month with 2Gigs of Data, which he burn thru in the week
watching YouTube the meth of his gen.

I bought that watch this morning on amazon I found there for $15 for a
first time watch, I though ok. It will be here tomorrow, wow Amazon
surprise me with there deliverys. Well, it his second watch, the first was
a Darth Varder Lego watch, which I don't think will be cool in Middle
School. He seemed excited because a lot of friends have iWatches. I guess I
am mean dad, as I can't see buy kids, those expense phones and watches.

As for the $3 on T-Mobile, I can't answer that, I pay $100 for my phone a
month, I have a plan back from like 2000, that have me unlimited text and
phone and 7 Gigs a data, and my I don't have to pay to use my phone as a
hot spot. So between my phone and my son and taxes, it's about $125 a
month. I looked at changing plans, but what I have I am saving some money.

Sounds like JD might be able to answer the T-Mobile question.

On Wed, Mar 8, 2017 at 11:36 AM, Neal Rhodes <neal at mnopltd.com> wrote:

> http://www.gearbest.com/cell-phones/pp_174048.html?wid=21 is a link to
> the watch I bought.  It is $10.99 with free shipping to the US.  ( I had
> some bonus points left from buying a SJCAM.  That's why it was just $3 for
> me.
>
> This is just a curiosity for me.    My understanding is that for $3/mo I
> can have some very limited amount of voice phone time from TMobile.   Like
> for the dozens of times I'm out somewhere and my normal android phone is
> dead again.   If I never run their software to send emails from android
> phone to the watch it's still ok.
>
> Without knowing how old your son is, be aware that there are similar
> phone/watches more oriented to children: they include GPS location, and a
> panic button to dial a set number and ....   I've not researched them; I
> just ran across some on Amazon.
>
> On Wed, 2017-03-08 at 07:53 -0500, Chuck Payne wrote:
>
> 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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