You mean like a bluetooth fob in my ear that I can listen to and talk into? We have those already. Just add Siri or equivalent. Your goal is met and the heavy weight of phone, screen, and battery can live in your pocket or bag.
Besides, I don’t want to listen to my email. I want to read it.
“Ditch the headset. He can barely pull it off – and you are not him.”
No, I haven’t used one. It didn’t seem interesting from what I’ve known about it. But there has been a lot of hype, which I hoped might lead to more wearable interest. Too little, too late perhaps.
This is doable. Although I avoid using wireless anything where at all possible. Even a mobile phone itself already greatly compromises audio fidelity. Also, setting up such a fob+phone still requires delaing with a visual UI, Although I guess one could customize a distro for audio-only use. The battery can be much smaller when the LCD is gone.
On which phones would this “distro” run because, last I looked, there aren’t a lot of devices out there begging for a new distro and which you can just put on whatever you want. Perhaps you should just write an Android app and call it good?
My point is that your “dream” problem was solved a few years ago. You just have to use a phone to do it. Fortunately, something like 90% of the planet has a mobile phone (which is more than we can say of clean water and a number of other things).
You should at any available opportunity. I was cautiously optimistic but it turned into me feeling like a total jackass shouting on the street to google something. It may have been better when one was alone in the car, but it was very uncomfortable socially and having to look at the screen gave me a headache.
I wanted it to be The Future, but it was little more than an awkward present.
It’s a bit of a pity that it didn’t quite work. A smallish, reasonable priced wearable screen and camera, with the processing power to show real-time overlays and the ability to link to a larger display like a tablet would be really handy for things like amateur sports coaching.
The coach watching and recording a match or training session, with tactical overlays, player recognition and tracking and instant replays to show players where they need to improve would be great. Cut-price ProZone, sort of thing. Dunno about the social aspect of it, but a footy coach mate of mine was really enthused over the possibilities.
Swing-and-a-miss for Google this time out, but maybe the next iteration might be closer.
You want an alternative distro for a cellphone? Try this:
Also, List of custom Android distributions - Wikipedia
Also, Replicant (operating system) - Wikipedia (okay, a CyanogenMod derivative but still.)
That’s what the wearable displays are for! 
And why the audio-only Bluetooth headsets aren’t sufficient.
True that. Lousy design that instead of augmenting one’s cognitive abilities ties them up during interaction. And for all that touchy interface there is no haptic feedback.
The main fix will be dropping the price to commodity level (sub-$100). Maybe acting more as a terminal than a standalone device. And easy dev access. The apps then swarm out for all those various niches, the use becomes common enough (medics, engineers, all other sorts of professionals…) that the naysayers just get used to them and/or give up.
That.
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