Kind of like AT&T's NumberSync feature, T-Mobile DIGITS lets you combine phone numbers on one device of choice completely free of charge.
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Google Voice was able to let you do it to an extent for a while. AT&T NumberSync lets you do it now. And starting soon, everyone will able to spread and share their DIGITS around, presumably thanks to T-Mobile.
DIGITS is a new program that not only allows you to tie one phone number to up to five devices — your smartphone, smartwatch, computers and cell-enabled tablets — but also put up to five numbers onto any one phone so that you can combine work and personal numbers if you so desire. All devices will have the numbers’ call histories, messages and voicemail on them, no matter where you do your talking and walking.
T-Mobile claims that unlike Internet-based solutions, the Un-carrier can deliver better call quality and that the DIGITS app will work with other carriers’, including the other Big Three.
While DIGITS is available as an app for the following platform versions or newer:
T-Mobile has been able to natively integrate DIGITS functionality into the dialer of recent Samsung phones (Galaxy S6 and later flagships). It hopes to do so with more devices soon.
The Un-carrier is opening DIGITS up as a beta for feedback and tweaks and will proceed with commercial launch early next year. You can sign up for the beta here. Let’s hope things are kept fee-free as they are now.
If you like handling all your calls and texts in the place you’re most focused on right now and aren’t concerned about work-life balances that a multiple phone setup might afford or security concerns based on the intrinsic properties of any given phone or phones, then Google Voice was your cup of tea. So may be AT&T NumberSync. But hey, there’s DIGITS now.
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Samsung has fired the starting gun for pre-order announcements on one of the hottest smartwatches of the season (unfortunately, not one of the hottest smartphones, though). Now, it’s up to individual retailers and carriers to confirm their own plans to their customers.
For AT&T, it plans on firing up pre-orders for the Gear S3 frontier tomorrow, November 4. Ma Bell touts the LTE-enabled smartwatch with NumberSync to allow customers to take calls and texts under multiple devices on an account. The watch can also control DIRECTV boxes and smart home appliances through the “Digital Life” hub.
The bolder and heavier frontier smartwatch will retail for $350 full retail over a 20-month AT&T Next plan ($17.50 per month) or $49.99 and a two-year service contract. Hit the source link to put dibs on yours.
No word on any Gear S3 classic action yet, if ever.
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Samsung has not provided a specific date of availability nor has it spilled the prices of its latest wearables, the Gear S3 classic and the Gear S3 frontier. Both of them come in Bluetooth-only and LTE-connected flavors as well, so carriers are bound to be wanting in on the action.Well, AT&T, carrying the 3G version of the Gear S2 and first to grab at the
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