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Agreed.

I have the series 2 and have started running without my phone since the series 2 can still track my runs without it. The one thing I kind of miss is listening to podcasts while running since I still would need my phone for that.

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You can listen to podcasts with the watch series 2 and no phone, you just need wireless headphones.

Can you listen to podcasts on Apple Watch 3 without a phone around?

Yes - you can stream songs over cellular.

I don't think this is possible. There is no podcasts app for the watch (shocking). If you have your iPhone, you can pause/play forward/back... but this is the generic player for apps that don't have a version for the Watch. i.e. I use Google Play Music, which doesn't have a Watch version of its app, but when I play music from my iPhone, I can pause/play etc. from the watch.

Until very recently overcast supported apple watch playback, though this recently had to be removed due to API changes[1]. So it's definitely possible, though the experience is seriously lacking until Apple get their act together on the API side.

[1] https://marco.org/2017/08/10/removed-send-to-watch

Can you import podcasts into iTunes? Surely from there you can transfer to the watch like with Fitbit Ionic.

Interesting... that might actually be possible.

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