And to be clear, the first versions of the Playbook in fact will reach the Internet either via WiFi, or through Bluetoothtethering to your BlackBerry, though the company also plans to offer a broadband wireless version of the device via Sprint later in the year.
While much of the analysis can take place in the cloud data centres of the internet, the smartphone is the intermediary that is making the new wearable movement possible, as the devices connect to apps over Bluetooth wireless technology or other tethering methods.