Smartwatch makers have yet to find the sweet spot for replicating your phone’s functionality while also creating new uses. Musician and tech investor will.i.am is taking a different approach by ditching the smartphone entirely with a watch that’s capable of making its own calls. Will.i.am unveiled the project on the Alan Carr: Chatty Man show on Friday, though some viewers of The Voice UK had spotted_him wearing the device on the show recently. “I don’t carry my phone anymore. This is my phone,” he said. The artist also revealed that he had funded the company with his own money. In...

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