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Is that really the whole device, or is the processing done elsewhere, like a phone or something? (I admit I only skim read the article)

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> losing data or experiencing slow data on a phone put the headset into a near-unusable state

This makes me think that the voice processing is done server-side. I wouldn't be at all surprised by this; that's how Siri does it, and I would be amazed if they managed to fit good enough voice recognition into even a phone, let alone this tiny thing.

Google voice recognition can be done offline on phones now.

That's incredible. I will have to check this out.

Is there some way to activate this option? Sometimes it seems my voice input is bottlenecked by the connection when I'm driving in a low-coverage area.

The headset doesn't appear to be as big as a phone: so I'm wondering whether the headset talks to a phone that then talks to Google, or whether the headset really does the lot.

The device gets data through Wi-Fi on its own, or it can tether via Bluetooth to an Android device or iPhone and use its 3G or 4G data while out and about.

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