A:AnswerYou can answer, but you would have to have some sort of Bluetooth head set on to make it effective. It’s not like an Apple Watch where you can talk through the speaker. You cannot send calls or text messages but you can receive both. The distance from your phone it allows is pretty good I feel.
A:AnswerWhen you track an activity with GPS, your device calculates your distance using GPS data rather than steps. If you begin moving before you get a GPS signal, your device calculates distance using your steps until GPS connects.
This information is found in the device.
Hope this helps