Airpods/Apple Watch Nike question

[cmbauer]

So I was thinking it might be nice to run without my phone. Throw some music on my watch and use airpods for the run - no more wires, no more phone etc etc

However I was just reading about controlling music from the Airpods and this struck me as odd. Does this mean I would still have to have the phone with me to use SIRI to control music on the watch?

Here are a few choice Siri commands for controlling audio playback:

• “Play” or “Pause music”
• “Play SONG NAME” or “Play PODCAST NAME”
• “Play my Favorites playlist”
• “Skip back”, “skip forward” or “skip to the next song”
• “Skip back/forward x seconds/minutes/hours”
• “Lower/raise volume x percent”

These commands won’t work if iPhone cannot establish a network connection because unlike Voice Control, Siri requires an Internet connection even for basic playback commands.