Qualcomm announced the Snapdragon platform Wear, designed for wearable electronics in General and smart watches in particular. It is based on a new system-on-chip Snapdragon Wear 2100. According to the manufacturer, chipset Snapdragon Wear 2100 30% less Snapdragon 400, which is now popular in wearable devices, and 25% consumes less power. Furthermore, the chipset has received the LTE modem the next generation.
As noted by Qualcomm, the platform obsolet to create a more slim and compact wearable smart gadgets with extended battery life. And form factors are possible the most different — from smart jewelry to smart clothing.
Wear Snapdragon chip 2100 includes four processor cores Cortex-A7 with a clock frequency of 1.2 GHz, Adreno graphics 304. He is able to serve displays with a resolution of up to 640×480 pixels at a refresh rate of 60 Hz. There are two versions of chipset — only with Bluetooth and Wi-Fi, as well as with additional cellular connectivity 2G/3G/LTE. The chipset supports NFC and GPS, as well as the fastest quick charge Quick Charge 2.0. Devices based on Android Wear were expected before the end of 2016. One of the first manufacturers of such gadgets have become the company LG.