is watch and cellphone proximity always necessary On my regular bicycle ride of 2 hr duration can I leave the cell phone at home? Can I sync the watch and cell after coming home? Does the phone have enough memory to store heart rate data as well as GPS data ? On week ends the run could stretch to 4 hrs/100 kms. Would that be too much data?

If I could, I would rather leave the phone at home while on the bike?

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is watch and cellphone proximity always necessary On my regular bicycle ride of 2 hr duration can I leave the cell phone at home? Can I sync the watch and cell after coming home? Does the phone have enough memory to store heart rate data as well as GPS data ? On week ends the run could stretch to 4 hrs/100 kms. Would that be too much data?

If I could, I would rather leave the phone at home while on the bike?

Bensontbjj · Accepted Answer

The watch works fine without the phone but only as a watch. The notifications and information are pushed to the watch from the phone. It DOESN'T have built in GPS so you will not be able to use it for runs or biking without the phone.

Answered by Bensontbjj 9 years ago

GabrielC_BBYSTAFF · Answer

Proximity is not always necessary.
The watch actually has 4GB of storage space on it so it will definitely be able to fit that much fitness data. Any data the watch has stored with sync with Moto Fitness or Google Fit once it is all reconnected.

You can even download music to your watch and connect Bluetooth headphones directly to the watch to listen to music with Google Play Music!

elizo9 · Answer

The watch and the phone do need to be near each other in order to communicate.

Jake · Answer

The watch needs to have either a connection to the phone or to a wifi network to give GPS data, since it is not a connected device like the Samsung Gear S. If you were to leave the phone at home and go riding it would not give the GPS part of what you need. However, it would store the heart rate. The watch will automatically sync to the phone as you come in close enough proximity to it. There is no need to repair it or anything like that.

Answered by Jake 9 years ago

CooLnEss77 · Answer

Yes, you have to be in range of your cell phone at all times as it syncs via Bluetooth.

handyman · Answer

If your phone is on you can now connect your watch to a wifi network and receive notifactions

Gossamer69 · Answer

Only needed if you're looking for constant updates. it still works as a watch but no texts or other phone related stuff will work
It will count steps.

Jmwils3 · Answer

As the device does mot have a dedicated gps module and retrieves and syncs data over bluetooth, that would not work

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