Qualcomm today launched a new wearable chip platform for smartwatches that promises significant improvements to battery life and performance. Called the Snapdragon W5+ and W5, the next-gen chips ...

The new Snapdragon W5+ chip from Qualcomm can only be a big deal if smartwatch makers decide it’s worth using. Most passed (or hesitated) on the previous chip from Qualcomm, so there’s no guarantee ...

Qualcomm has a new wearable chip for smartwatches. Actually, there are two of them. They’re the Qualcomm Snapdragon W5 Gen 1 and W5+ Gen 1, and Qualcomm thinks they’re the next big revolution in ...

Every two years, Qualcomm introduces a new (or should I say “new”) wearable chipset that will power a new range of smartwatches, many of which run Wear OS. During the days of the Snapdragon Wear 2100 ...

Qualcomm has more to offer than just Snapdragon chips for mobile smartphones. While the company has been collecting good results from the trending Snapdragon 8+ Gen 1 SoC, it has recently revamped its ...

Oppo has just announced its promised duo of smartwatches featuring Qualcomm’s latest Snapdragon W5 Gen 1 chip — the first wearables to adopt the new platform since Qualcomm announced it last month.

The new chip platform comes to watches this year, but it could bring better battery life and more camera features to smart glasses and other wearables as well. I started with CNET reviewing laptops in ...

Qualcomm announced the Snapdragon W5 Gen 2 and W5+ Gen 2 on Wednesday. Like the Gen 1, the W5 Plus Gen 2 uses a 4nm SoC with four Cortex-A53 cores, a Cortex-M55 coprocessor, and an Adreno 702 GPU.

A new leak suggests that OnePlus is working on a new smartwatch with the Snapdragon W5 Gen 1 SoC, intended for global release. This smartwatch could have eSIM support, fist clench gestures, and other ...

The Pixel Watch 2 is launching alongside the Pixel 8 today. Google’s second self-branded smartwatch is sporting a modest update, with the same design as the first version, a new SoC, and a skin ...