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Comment by aldanor | Hacker News Reader

To each his own. Not having to carry a phone when running is the best thing digital watches did to me.

I'm not too familiar with the Apple ecosystem, although I own a pair of Airpods & an S8, they work surprisingly well together.

Is it possible to store music for offline playback on the Watch and pair it with your Airpods for listening on the go? I'm not a fan of running/cycling with my phone so a Watch/Airpod combo sounds super useful to ditch the phone. I understand I'd need an iPhone for the Watch but I'm just curious if this use case would be possible.

Yes, you can store music on the watch and thereby go for a run without taking your phone.

Good to know, thanks for your response!

Can you store music on your Airpods? Then you wouldn't need to wear a watch or carry a phone. It could save space and bandwidth by splitting up the songs and only storing one channel in each ear.

You can't, but you can on Samsung's Gear Icon X earbuds [1]. Not sure if they do anything clever with the files though.

[1] http://www.samsung.com/global/galaxy/gear-iconx/

> Is it possible to store music for offline playback on the Watch and pair it with your Airpods for listening on the go?

Yes, and not only that but you can also stream Apple Music over LTE as well.

Hmmm, that's pretty sweet. As an S8/Samsung Gear/Spotify user I'll have to serious consider switching to iPhone/Apple Watch/Apple Music... thanks!

Yes. Take note, the music sync to watch can be absurdly slow. It does it over bluetooth for some reason, and needs the apple watch to be on a charger.

LTE with apple music works as well. Other streaming services such as spotify aren't yet supported without a phone.

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