Straight answers, including the unflattering ones

A leather belt that talks to your phone, so you can get directions, take a call or confirm something without taking the phone out.

No. There is no finished hardware yet. The waitlist is how you hear first when that changes, and it costs nothing to join.

The industrial design and the product spec are done and modelled to real dimensions. The electronics are not built. No prototype has been worn. We publish the current stage on the design page rather than implying more.

No, and it cannot. The phone does the AI, the maps and the connection. Without a phone in your pocket the belt is a belt, which is deliberate: it still has to hold your trousers up when the battery is flat.

There is no always-on microphone and no wake word. A voice session starts when you physically pull the audio module out of its dock and ends when you put it back.

A belt has room. There is space along the back for a battery that would never fit on a wrist, the hips are a good place to feel a left or right cue, and most people already put one on without thinking about it.

Partly. Android allows the notification and automation access this depends on; iOS restricts most of it. We are building Android first and will be straight about what an iPhone version can and cannot do.

Nothing. No payment, no obligation, and one email at a time when there is something real to report.