AT&T now lets you share your phone number with tablets, watches, more
- 9 years ago
Your phone number isn't just for your phone anymore.
AT&T will soon let customers apply their primary number to additional devices, including tablets and watches.
Called NumberSync, the feature - which will launch on its first device in the holiday season - uses AT&T's network to send and receive phone calls and text messages to multiple devices.
The feature comes as more connected devices with their own cellular connection - and associated number - emerge.
NumberSync is handy if you have a cellular-connected smartwatch, like the upcoming LG Watch Urbane 2nd Edition, but don't want people texting or calling a separate number.
By making this an AT&T-only service, it provides an incentive to consumers to stick with one network for all of their devices.
"Our plan is for NumberSync to become the norm on a variety of our future connected 'devices'," AT&T said in a statement.
AT&T will soon let customers apply their primary number to additional devices, including tablets and watches.
Called NumberSync, the feature - which will launch on its first device in the holiday season - uses AT&T's network to send and receive phone calls and text messages to multiple devices.
The feature comes as more connected devices with their own cellular connection - and associated number - emerge.
NumberSync is handy if you have a cellular-connected smartwatch, like the upcoming LG Watch Urbane 2nd Edition, but don't want people texting or calling a separate number.
By making this an AT&T-only service, it provides an incentive to consumers to stick with one network for all of their devices.
"Our plan is for NumberSync to become the norm on a variety of our future connected 'devices'," AT&T said in a statement.