Is it time to wear smartwatches again? | #PNWeekly 323

We have a big bunch of your favorite tech 'tubers talkin' about how they can influence thoughts and in which direction they should go with new smartwatches.

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Qualcomm may upgrade Snapdragon Wear 2100 chipset in September

The Wear 2500 came out earlier this year, but with Wear OS struggling to trigger a new wave of hardware, Qualcomm needs a new watermark chipset.

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Qualcomm’s Snapdragon Wear 2500 chip could help make kid watches mainstream

Despite what the name suggests, Qualcomm's all-new Snapdragon Wear 2500 platform is not a true Wear 2100 sequel. But it's still an interesting wearable SoC.

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Samsung makes long overdue jump from 28 to 14nm wearable processors with Exynos 7270

Back in February, Qualcomm made a pretty big fuss over the Snapdragon Wear 2100 SoC, which was supposed to usher in the “next era of wearables.” Namely, smartwatches, previously powered mainly by the Snapdragon 400 processor, which was hardly a beast to begin with in 2013, not to mention it of course started out as a product designed specifically for smartphone use.Bottom line, we were certainly ready to welcome the 2100 with open arms, but unfortunately, that “next wave” of smartwatches,

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Qualcomm intros Snapdragon Wear 1100 processor for kids’ watches and fitness trackers

MediaTek caught a lot of Computex 2016 attendees off guard and made plenty of headlines yesterday with the announcement of its own groundbreaking fast-charging solution for Android smartphones, but if you were expecting Qualcomm to unveil something similarly innovative at the Taipei expo, we’re sorry to disappoint.Then again, it’s clearly far too early for Quick Charge 3.0 or

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