Is there anything I can do with an Apple Watch without an iPhone?
Title says it all. I got an Apple Watch from my job but I have a Pixel 4a. Tried setting it up and it appears you MUST have an iPhone to use it.
Is there anything I can do with this thing besides sell it to someone who has an iPhone?
For what it's worth, the only thing I really care about there is the heart rate and O2 monitor. I would love to decouple those features if I could.
The one issue with decoupling is that while you may then get it to "work," so many of the features you care about, even the heart rate monitoring and 02 monitor, will "work" on your wrist but will really display data in a manner that really assumes you have an iPhone. A lot of the health features will directly guide you to "look at your phone" to actually get a picture of what's going on, rather than allowing it all to be seamlessly browsable on your wrist. IMO, you are better off selling this and buying an alternative that plays nicer with your Android phone... the utility you will get from this without an iPhone will be severely limited and I dare say will very quickly become an annoyance.
Hijacking the thread: is there any Smart Watch out there that I can use without any smart phone and that I can put music in it? Basically, I would like to use it as an mp3 player (so, ideally I would just need to plugin it to my laptop to transfer music).
Forgive me for going slightly off-topic and perhaps prying, but: how come did your employer provide you with an Apple Watch, particularly if they don’t provide you with an iPhone to use it with?