With the new watches available, I thought I'd publish an updated version of this tip.
According to WFMZ TV 69, all Pennsylvania residence can now use text to talk to 9-1-1. All 67 counties now have the ability to receive and send 9-1-1 text to all cell phones.
Here's how it works (for iPhone):
Here's how it works (for Android):
Some Apple Watch users say they’ve been unable to activate the Verizon cellular plan for their new wearable. The carrier suggests users try again.
Based on complaints from several users shared with AppleInsider, an Apple Watch sold by Verizon will activate correctly, but a watch purchased elsewhere, even from Apple, will fail to correctly activate.
Why is this happening? One comment spotted by AppleInsider may have hit upon the cause.
When Verizon receives a product like an Apple Watch from Apple, the carrier records the IMEI number. As you try to activate the device, Verizon finds its IMEI number in their system, assigns it an eSIM, and the cellular connection is made. That’s the successful scenario if you buy the watch from Verizon.
But if you buy a product like the Apple Watch from another vendor and then try to activate it through Verizon, that’s when you run into the problem.
This is because the IMEI number for your device is not in Verizon’s system.
A group of parents are trying to get the agreement of an entire town to have their kids go without smartphones until they are 14 years old.
The hope is that if enough parents sign up to the initiative, it will remove the danger of isolating children from friends who do have phones …
There’s long been significant concern about the impact of social media apps in particular on teenage mental health, as well as on the potential harm done by kids using smartphones at school.
We’re seeing more states and school districts either ban or limit smartphone useduring school hours, but BBC News reports that one group of parents is hoping to go further.
Parents have signed a pledge to delay giving their child a smartphone until the end of Year 9 when most will have turned 14.
William Ransom Primary School, in Hitchin, Hertfordshire, has asked all 25 primaries [elementary schools] in the town to join them in requesting that parents do not give their pupils smartphones.
Earlier this year, a group of parents at the school agreed they did not want to give their children smartphones and raised it with head teacher Tony Plunkett, who supported their campaign […] He hopes to have all the town’s primary schools signed up to be smartphone-free this school year.
One of the biggest challenges for parents who want to make this decision is that it runs the risk of leaving their kids isolated, if all their friends are chatting on apps, and arranging get-togethers on social media. The idea here is to remove that problem.
Plunkett said: “You don’t want to alienate your child, so you inevitably give them access. Hopefully, what we’re doing is trying to build that community where more children do not have phones than do.”
The most famous school in Britain recently told parents that students will only be allowed Nokia dumbphones during term time.
Via: 9to5Mac.com
