Snapdragon Wear 3100

Qualcomm Gives Hope to Older 3100/4100 Watches for New Wear OS (Updated)

Kellen June 16, 2021 9

There is a heavy amount of stress in the world of Wear OS watches at the moment now that Google has announced (with Samsung) the next version of Wear that will lead us into our Android wearable future. As cool as the new Wear OS 3.0 may end up being, all of...

Wear OS Watchmakers Seem Destined to Kill the Platform

Kellen March 9, 2021 41

The watch pictured above is the Huawei Watch 2 from 2017. It was a solid Wear OS watch at the time, with the best specs currently available, including Qualcomm's Snapdragon Wear 2100 chip. Again, that was in 2017, a full year after Qualcomm had introduced that...

Fossil Sport, Others Getting Gen 5’s Sweet Battery Modes Today

Kellen January 6, 2020

Oh friends, do we have big Fossil Wear OS news to share. Remember those sweet battery modes introduced alongside the Fossil Gen 5 last year that we were told would one day arrive on older Fossil watches? Those battery modes are starting to rollout today! The...

More Details Surface for Qualcomm’s Next Wear OS Savior Attempt

Kellen October 28, 2019

Earlier this year, we heard the first rumor about a possible in-the-works wearable chip from Qualcomm that might actually do some good for Wear OS, unlike the Snapdragon Wear 3100. At the time, it was supposedly being referred to as the Snapdragon Wear 429,...

New KSNY Sport Smartwatch With Wear OS Starts at $275

Tim October 21, 2019

Kate Spade unveiled the "new" KSNY Sport Smartwatch with Wear OS this morning, available starting today for $275. New is in quotes because like we saw recently from Michael Kors, while the outside of this device looks unfamiliar, the internals point to this...

Misfit Announces Vapor X Watch With Wear 3100, $199 Price

Kellen August 14, 2019

Misfit, one of the many members of the Fossil Group who makes Wear OS watches, announced their newest Wear OS wearable today, the Vapor X. The watch features several upgrades over previous Vapor models, including the Qualcomm Snapdragon Wear 3100 chip, a...

Qualcomm Might Try and Save Wear OS Again With a New Chipset

Kellen July 9, 2019

Qualcomm released the Snapdragon Wear 3100 almost a year ago and I think it's safe to say that the processor did little to help out Google's Wear OS. It was most definitely not the savior we hoped it would be, as there are few Wear OS options to consider and...

Qualcomm Says Wear OS Sports Watch Still Coming, Google Shrugs at Sports Mode

Kellen June 12, 2019

Almost a year in, Qualcomm's Snapdragon Wear 3100 hasn't brought the new life to the Wear OS world that we had hoped for. I think we know why that is (it's not really an upgrade over the Wear 2100), but during its unveiling, Qualcomm announced a feature for...