Update: This deal is still available.
Walmart has
40mm Apple Watch SE GPS + Cellular (1st Gen, Aluminum Case w/ Sport Band) on sale for
$129.
Shipping is free.
Thanks to community member
rlrsd for finding this deal.
Available colors:
Product Features:
- 32GB capacity
- Retina LTPO OLED display, 1000 nits
- Ion-X glass display
- GPS + Cellular
- S5 SiP with 64-bit dual-core processor; W3 wireless chip
- Digital Crown with haptic feedback
- Optical heart sensor
- High and low heart rate notifications and irregular heart rhythm notification
- International emergency calling, Emergency SOS, and fall detection
- Water resistant 50 meters
- LTE and UMTS, Wi-Fi, and Bluetooth 5.0
- GPS/GNSS, compass, and always-on altimeter
- 50 percent louder speaker; built-in mic
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Basically for 10+ years the only way to set up an Apple Watch was to tether it to your phone. Same number, same account, etc (even if you had cellular service on the watch, which is $30+ activation and $10/mo on the major networks; cheaper on the discounters, usually $5/mo)
Then around 2021 Apple introduced "family setup" for watches, which allows you to use your own phone to set up and manage a watch for a standalone user (typically cellular). This was aimed at older adults or children.
However, only a handful of carriers — the usual suspects — support family setup, so you're limited on who you use for that new phone number. We just chose Truphone because they were the only Apple-approved carrier that didn't leave us tied to a major service and charged zero setup fee, just the $10/mo unlimited service.
Eventually we might switch over but it's only been a couple weeks' trial run and we love it. Not perfect, but the cellular watch alone is very capable of basic functions — voice texting, Find My location (sometimes very slow), workout tracking (but can't archive it without a phone).
Not perfect, but he can't easily lose something strapped to his wrist and $130 is a much easier replacement than $500+. And he can't browse websites or get too distracted by it. We also imported selected contacts from our phones. No incoming or outgoing calls or texts are allowed from random people.
It sounds complicated because it's hard to find people in that exact situation and there's probably not much profit in it
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