Samsung's new chip could allow for smaller LTE smartwatches

Smartwatches are tethered devices. Take away the connected smartphone, and most watches become nothing more than a fitness tracker with a clock and less battery life. And while a few watches — notably, the Samsung Gear S3, the LG Watch Urbane 2nd Edition LTE, and the Samsung Gear S — have had LTE chips that let them actually function independently, it almost always came at the cost of an increase in size and decrease in battery life to compensate. In fact, po