Qualcomm's Snapdragon Wear 1200 Platform Launched at MWC in Shanghai

At MWC Shanghai 2017, Qualcomm announced the Snapdragon Wear 1200 platform, a low-powered chip-set for compact and single purpose wearable devices. This includes tracking devices, Android smartwatches as well as IoT systems such as parking meters, remote pumping stations, etc.,


Qualcomm already announced Snapdragon Wear 1100 platform during May'16, but the Snapdragon Wear 1200 covers much more features from it's predecessor.

The Snapdragon Wear 1200 is 45% smaller in size (79mm), which helps in designing highly optimized wearable devices. The Snapdragon 1200 Platform sports with Integrated Applications Processor with ARM Cortex A1 at 1.3 GHZ and an integrated Cat-M1, NB1, and eGPRS multi-mode modem, which allows low-power wearable to enable 4G without using too much battery power. Qualcomm guarantees up to 300 kbps down-link and 350 kbps up-link for Cat-M1 Modem and 10 kbps down-link and 60 kbps up-link for Cat-NB1.

The Snapdragon Wear 1200 Power Management option includes Ultra-low Rock Bottom Sleep Current (RBSC) for extended standby, Power Save Mode (PSM), Extended Discontinuous Receive (eDRX) - Qualcomm claims up-to 10 days of stand-by mode for it's MB1-enabled devices. It supports Qualcomm's fast charging technology as well.

The Connectivity options include Bluetooth 4.2, Wi-Fi radios, Integrated voice support for VoLTE, GPS with multiple global satellite systems support.The SD 1200 Platform comes with Secure Execution Environment, a hardware cryptographic engine, hardware random number generator and TrustZone for privacy and security. It is expected that the SD 1200 featured devices will be commercially out during Q4, 2017.

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