Qualcomm's new Snapdragon Wear 4100 series is the hardware boost Wear OS desperately needs

It's up to 85% faster than existing smartwatch processors

Google's Wear OS platform for smartwatches has been in a rough patch for a while, partially because the only viable option for processors has been Qualcomm's Snapdragon Wear 2100 and 3100 chips. Those processors are vastly out of date, but now Qualcomm is introducing a massive upgrade — the Wear 4100 series.

Qualcomm revealed two new System-on-a-Chip platforms for wearables today, the Snapdragon Wear 4100 and the Wear 4100+. Both are built on a 12 nanometer architecture, a significant upgrade from the 28nm design on the company's existing Wear 3100 platform.

Qualcomm's new Snapdragon Wear 4100 series is the hardware boost Wear OS desperately needs was written by the awesome team at Android Police.