Samsung's smart glasses do not replace your phone. They borrow it.
Choi Jae-in, who heads Samsung's Extended Reality R&D team, told Korea Times that the non-display glasses are designed to act as an extension of your smartphone rather than a total replacement. Samsung had said the same thing when it announced the eyewear, describing it as a companion device to a mobile phone that people reach through voice.
The division of labour is physical. Nothing is displayed in the lenses. The glasses carry the cameras and the microphones, the paired handset does the heavy AI work, and the two talk over Bluetooth and Wi-Fi.
Samsung and Google showed the hardware in May with Warby Parker and Gentle Monster, and what they demonstrated was Gemini answering hands free.
Samsung's own framing has not moved since. In May it called the glasses a companion device that works alongside an AI phone, a more portable way to get at what the phone can already do. In July it called them an extension of the experience centred on the smartphone rather than a post-smartphone device. Whatever these turn out to cost, they are being sold as the second thing you buy, not the first.