San Diego: Over the last few years, the wearable industry has been growing at a very fast pace. We have witnessed a range of wearables for adults, kids, and seniors and with targeted applications for sports, health, communication, and fashion being launched.
As wearable industry diversifies, it requires a flexible architecture that brings rich experiences while helping to deliver extended battery life.
Qualcomm Snapdragon Wear 4100 platforms has been unveiled by Qualcomm Technologies, Inc., a subsidiary of Qualcomm Incorporated. Snapdragon Wear 4100+ and Snapdragon Wear 4100 will enhance the users experience of the smartwatches as it is based on :
- The ultra-low hybrid approach
- A super-fast System-on-Chip (SoC)
- A smarter Always On (AON) co-processor
- A power based on 12nm process technology
“We are delighted to be at the forefront of the fast-paced wearables segment,” said Pankaj Kedia, global business head, smart wearables segment, Qualcomm Technologies, Inc. “We have seen tremendous success with our innovative hybrid architecture, first introduced in the Snapdragon Wear 3100 platform, which brings the best of performance and battery life to wearables."
The collaboration with Suunto with their expertise in sports will perhaps give new heights to the Snapdragon Wear 4100 platforms. Earlier this company had launched Suunto 7, smartwatch based on Snapdragon Wear 3100 and Wear OS by Google.
With all the parameters as mentioned in the beginning( hybrid architecture, SoC, etc) the Snapdragon Wear 4100+ architecture is engineered to deliver significant improvements in performance, connectivity, smartness, and power.
Super-Fast Performance and Connectivity: The SoC comprises of quad-core A53 processors, Qualcomm® Adreno™ 504 class graphics processing, faster LPDDR3 memory (750MHz), and dual ISPs with support for up to 16 megapixel cameras.
Snapdragon Wear 4100+ is designed to delivers 85% faster performance with faster app launches, concurrent use cases, smoother & responsive UX, and richer photo & video experiences.
Smarter Always-On (AON) Co-Processor: This feature supports richer offloaded experiences. Partitioned memory and performance to enable up to 64K colors and extend offload experiences to include continuous heart rate monitoring and sleep for health and wellness, faster tilt-to-wake responsiveness, step counting, alarms, timers, and haptics for a more capable traditional watch mode.
Ultra-Low Power Platform: For less power consumption and extended battery life features such as 12nm low power process technology,enhanced Bluetooth 5.0 architecture, dual DSPs for optimal workload partitioning etc prove to be helpful.
Richer, Enhanced Experiences: The hybrid platform approach brings rich, enhanced experiences across interactive, ambient, sports, and watch modes. In interactive mode, the platform supports additional immersive experiences with camera, voice assistant, and voice/video messaging.
In ambient mode, the increase in number of colors from 16 to 64K and number kerning is designed to make readability crisper and offers more exciting design options.
In sports mode, offloaded maps enhance the on-the-run experience.
Snapdragon Wear 4100 Platform SKUs and Availability
Snapdragon Wear 4100 platforms come in two variants:
- The Snapdragon Wear 4100+ platform which includes the main SOC (SDM429w or SDA429w) and the AON Co-Processor (QCC1110), along with the companion chips including PMIC, RF for Modem/GPS and WiFi/BT, and RFFE
- The Snapdragon Wear 4100 platform which comprises of the main SOC along with the companion chips
The Snapdragon Wear 4100 platforms support both the Android Open Source Platform (AOSP) and the Wear OS by Google OS platform. Snapdragon Wear 4100+ and Snapdragon Wear 4100 are available and shipping now.
Some of the smartwatch brands coming in the market using Snapdragon Wear 4100 Paltform are Imoo Z6 Ultra and Mobvoi Inc Tic Watch Pro smartwatches .
