[jmull]

This is all great.

In the short term, the sticking point is the cell contract.

If there is a reasonable add-on price to your existing phone rate, this is going to catch on. The more reasonable the rate, the quicker it will catch on.

Longer-term, the standalone service contract (Watch-only, no phone) will become more significant. People don't have an intrinsic urge to carry a rectilinear slab in their pocket... they have an intrinsic urge to communicate with each other. As a watch form-factor becomes more convenient, they will happily switch, in droves.

[hanklazard]

I would love to drop the smart phone from every hour of my waking life but limited text input capabilities would be a major sticking point for me.

[jmull]

The voice dictation works well. It uses an internet connection, but i suppose you often need that anyway when you're inputting text.

The finger handwriting works reasonably well too. It's slow though, at least for me, so better for short messages.

[gehwartzen]

What would be even better is if cellular plans just covered the actual data at a set rate and let you connect as many devices as you want. At the end of the day that 'should' be all they care about.