Qualcomm is finally designing new chips for Wear OS smartwatches

As chances are you’ll know, all Wear OS watches that come out in the present day have little possibility however to make use of the identical core chip inside: Qualcomm’s Snapdragon Wear 2100, which dates again to February 2016. Some have argued that this is what’s holding your entire Wear OS — née Android Wear — platform again. I personally assume that Wear OS has deeper elementary points than the processor it runs on, however in any case it seems that Qualcomm does plan to handle the issue this 12 months. Pankaj Kedia, Qualcomm’s senior wearables director, tells Wareable that the corporate will announce up to date watch-focused silicon this fall alongside a flagship machine, with “a number of companions” set to launch Wear OS watches primarily based on the new chips by the vacations. Kedia says the third-generation processors might be “designed from the bottom up for a no-compromises smartwatch expertise,” supposedly enabling smaller watches with higher battery life. “A smartwatch is at the beginning a watch — it must look good.” Qualcomm is apparently additionally designing the chips to work extra successfully with always-on shows. “A smartwatch is at the beginning a watch — it must look good, it must be modern, it must look good after I’m taking a look at it or after I’m not taking a look at it,” Kedia says. “It can’t be static after I’m not taking a look at it, it can’t be black and white after I’m not taking a look at it, it may well. So after we discuss to Fossil shoppers and Michael Kors shoppers, they need a no-compromises smartwatch.” Qualcomm isn’t able to reveal specifics, however Kedia claims the new {hardware} platform will “considerably change the Wear OS ecosystem.” With that in thoughts, it is best to most likely assume twice earlier than making any critical investments in Snapdragon Wear 2100-based gadgets within the upcoming months. Which, because it occurs, might presumably embrace this alleged new LG watch that simply confirmed up on the FCC. https://www.theverge.com/circuitbreaker/2018/5/8/17334228/qualcomm-snapdragon-wear-smartwatch-chip-coming