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Soo .... it's a cell phone that needs a cell phone to work ?

Sounds more like a bluetooth headset that you wear on your wrist

No, that's the cool bit: it's like a cell phone on your wrist!

The 4g connection is pretty good, and I think the call quality is pretty decent. Battery can only handle maybe an hour and a half of call per day (between charges), but I'm not too chatty, so it works great for me.

> But here's the gripe: the software to talk to it is only available on a mobile device. ONLY.

So "talk" here means "change settings"? That's what confused me.

Right? It really violates the Law of Least Astonishment. I think part of the idea is that the phone serves as a close hub to get push notifications from, since it doesn't retrieve my mail without the phone. Which honestly I'm starting to think I preferred (you really start to notice how much nonsense heads your way when the notifier is on your wrist).

It doesn't need a cell phone to work. It's got it's own 4g connection. He mentioned that his watch doesn't connect to his phone.

What he mentioned was :

> But here's the gripe: the software to talk to it is only available on a mobile device. ONLY.

talk is ambiguous

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