Qualcomm unveils Snapdragon Wear 2500 chipset for kids' smartwatches

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Qualcomm finally updated its wearable chipset line-up, but the Snapdragon Wear 2500 chip raises a few eyebrows. The press release makes it very clear that this targets kid-oriented watches and it doesn't really seem like something designed for premium watches (maybe that's coming later?). The processor is still based on ancient Cortex-A7 cores - four of them - so not much has changed on this front. Qualcomm claims that the new chipset is 14% more power efficient, which is nice until you consider that it replaces the Wear 2100 (introduced in 2016), which was based on the Snapdragon 210...

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