[zanderwohl]

This wasn't mentioned in the article, but the newer cellular variants of the watch allow you to place and receive calls even without your phone nearby. You can also stream music, stream podcasts, etc. without the phone nearby, listening with a bluetooth headset. I suspect certain android ones do as well, though I don't know which ones.

I like the idea of only carrying around a watch + headset. I'm actually thinking of doing this next month.

[brnt]

Without phone nearby or without phone?

[qwertay]

You still need an iphone to set it up / configure some things and update it.

[brnt]

Pity, but expected.