Designed for next-gen smartwatches, the Snapdragon Wear 4100 and Snapdragon Wear 4100 Plus are based on Qualcomm’s ultra-low-power hybrid architecture and are welcome upgrades to the Snapdragon Wear 3100 platform.
The Snapdragon Wear 4100 Plus aims to deliver up to 85% faster performance than its predecessor, with faster app launches, concurrent use cases, a smoother and more responsive UX, richer photos and videos, and 25% longer battery life.
The 4100 Plus architecture includes a super-fast SoC with quad-core A53 processors, the Qualcomm Adreno 504 GPU, faster LPDDR3 memory, a cellular modem and dual ISPs to support cameras up to 16MP (impressive for a watch) and a 12nm low power process.
The Plus also features a smarter Always On (AON) coprocessor and enhanced offload experiences. These include continuous heart rate monitoring, sleep monitoring, faster responsiveness when tilting to wake, step counting, alarms, timers, and haptics. Whether a watch uses these properties or not, of course, depends on the watchmaker.
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When will the Snapdragon Wear 4100 and 4100 Plus be released?
The Snapdragon Wear 4100 platforms support the Android Open Source Platform (AOSP) and the Wear OS by Google OS platform and are available today.
The first smartwatches powered by the Wear 4100 platforms – the imoo Z6 Ultra and the Mobvoi Tic Watch Pro – will launch later this year, with the Z6 Ultra expected to ship next month.
Which smartwatches support Snapdragon Wear 4100 and 4100 Plus?
Qualcomm has already confirmed a few companies that will jump onto the Wear 4100 platform in the near future. The first include the aforementioned imoo and Mobvoi.
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Kids smartwatch brand imoo plans to launch the Wear 4100-based Z6 Ultra next month. The first Android smartwatch on the platform offers highly responsive performance, dual camera video and image support, faster 4G LTE modem connectivity and longer battery life.
AI company Mobvoi also plans to launch its next-gen Tic Watch Pro this year, while Suunto President Heikki Norta has announced that Suunto is also looking forward to collaborating with Qualcomm on the new Wear 4100 platform .
We would expect to hear more about other brands supporting this smartwatch