{"id":19578,"date":"2022-07-19T22:59:51","date_gmt":"2022-07-19T22:59:51","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/harchi90.com\/snapdragon-w5-gen-1-battery-life-heres-what-to-expect\/"},"modified":"2022-07-19T22:59:51","modified_gmt":"2022-07-19T22:59:51","slug":"snapdragon-w5-gen-1-battery-life-heres-what-to-expect","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/harchi90.com\/snapdragon-w5-gen-1-battery-life-heres-what-to-expect\/","title":{"rendered":"Snapdragon W5+ Gen 1 battery life \u2013 Here’s what to expect"},"content":{"rendered":"
The Snapdragon W5+ Gen 1 is a huge leap forward for Wear OS smartwatches in terms of both performance and efficiency, and Qualcomm is making huge claims for battery life.<\/p>\n
Snapdragon W5+ Gen 1 is built on top of a 4nm process, making it a far more efficient chipset compared to what Qualcomm has been using for the past several years. For reference, the Snapdragon Wear 2100 and 3100 both ran on a 28nm process, while the Snapdragon Wear 4100 used a 12nm process. <\/p>\n
With that, Qualcomm says that Snapdragon W5+ Gen 1 has power reductions of 30-60% for \u201ckey use cases\u201d compared to the Snapdragon Wear 4100+. The biggest area of \u200b\u200bimprovement seems to be in background notifications, which see a 57% reduction in power usage, but the biggest area of \u200b\u200bactive battery drain is VoLTE calls, which should eat up around 34% less power on the new chip. <\/p>\n
Qualcomm breaks down the power savings as you can see below.<\/p>\n