My son has a Samsung Galaxy Tablet A8 LTE. I bought him a Samsung Watch 4 LTE eSIM. But the Samsung Wear does not pick up the Watch. Instead of him taking a tablet to school(sports) to make/receive phone calls, he would be better off having the watch, which is practicle. But then I researched online and it appears for an unknown reason, Samsung blocks pairing the watches with tablets. Why exactly?
You can't even pair an Apple Watch to an iPad. A tablet is a stand alone/companion device to cell phone and not a main device. You can't even use Samsung Health with a tablet. Even Samsung Pay is largely redundant on a tablet but a phone it works. Samsung Health Monitor works on a phone not tablet.
The tablet can receive phone calls and messages from phone but it can't send to the phone as a secondary, it just relays. Even if you initiate from the tablet it goes via the phone if you have paired itor alone if it has a sim card.
So that's the explanation.
The ecosystem revolves around the phone predominantly as a main device. The tablet on it's own it's good but the watch is a companion device especially to fulfill roles that are allowed on the phone as per the design
Hi M2NGWA. My child or a senior citizen or others with accessibility needs, might need a large display as the "main device", hence they might disagree. Their "main device" might just be a tablet, which makes/receive calls. Thank you for sharing the main stream opinion, which I share. Question remains: If, you can pair a phone<>watch, why not tablet<>watch. If the Vendor is taking the same perspective, then I suppose it is the end of the road (david<>goliath). But someone had to make the decision to block the tablet<>watch option by flagging the pair validation in the galaxy wear app. Am I the only one who wants to understand the reasoning to this?
My last point then I'm retiring from this discussion: Imagine you could pair with the watch<>tablet and leave it to the user how he wants his eco system to run.
In the meantime, I'll use this workaround: Microsoft Surface Tablet running Phone Link, or Dex. - The "Main Tablet Device" that makes calls and with the Galaxy Wear app, that is installed on a phone. Ta-da!
Sincerely thank you for everyone's interest in this discussion. 👍
