Apple Watch confusion

[Username50]

I’ve read topics on this by they don’t make sense. 

I bought an iPhone and cellular watch from apple. 

does that mean if I buy a pay monthly sim from EE for my phone I connect it to my watch and can use my watch independently to make calls?

I keep reading about a £7 add on. What’s that?

[Chris_B · Accepted solution]

@Username50  to leave your phone at home and use the Apple Watch on its own you will need to have a contract and thats £7 a month this will give you 10 gig of data and the ability to use your call and text allowance from your phone tariff.   

If you don’t want a contract for the watch it’ll work exactly how I noncellular Apple Watch will work. 

[Username50]

It uses my EE phone tariff but needs a £7 add on for its own tariff?

that doesn’t makes sense sorry. 

[wardi]

What it means is that at home your watch will work off your phone's signal ok.  If you want it to work independently/out of reach of your phone then you will have to pay for it's own tariff of £7.

[Lukebrittle24]

I know it’s a while back that you wrote this but I’m also in the same situation - seems like an absolute con to me. Already paying a significant amount to ee & if I had bought the watch from them directly it would be free regardless of how much I’m paying a month for my contract, but because i got it from vitality (somewhere where it’s actually feasible to buy from, unlike ee directly) I have to pay £7 a month extra. Genuinely disgusting.

[BrendonH]

Why do people think companies should give away their services for free?

You want to add another device to their service and not pay for it? Sorry you have to pay. It's £7 a month. If you want the device you must pay. If not don't have a device you don't want to pay for.

Buying from EE direct is not hard. Vitality is a con. Have you read the small print? I think you need to. To keep the price of it down you need to do a lot of exercise. I am pretty sure if I remember to keep it down to the minimum price it is 8 hours of rigorous exercise a day. Who has time for that?

[Chris_B]

@Lukebrittle24  The watch needs a data connection to work the watch doesn’t use your phone contract data and it’s a separate device on your account that needs its own connection to work.   If you want it your going to have to pay for that connection.  If you purchase from EE that payment is not just due that Watch it’s also for that data allowance you get.     And if you think it’s free if you purchase from EE I recommend you actually work it out.  

in fact I’ll do it for you. 

watch upfront cost £0

£28 per month 

= £672.  

Apple Watch cellular directly from

Apple and the same 41mm cellular watch   £469

so you see even from EE your paying for the connection.  

your phone contract is just that your phone contract and that contract is just for your phone not anything else you might be able to link to your phone.