Wear OS Hybrid Interface offers 100-hours battery life, debuts w/ OnePlus Watch 2

OnePlus recently announced its first Wear OS smartwatch. Now, Google revealed details about the OnePlus Watch 2’s Wear OS hybrid interface. This collaboration dramatically extended the battery life of the OnePlus Watch 2.

Google revealed that the OnePlus Watch 2 dual-chipset architecture works with the Wear OS hybrid interface. The latest version of Wear OS allows both chips to work better in tandem.

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The company’s collab with OnePlus for Wear OS hybrid interface enables even more use cases to benefit from a dramatically extended battery life of up to 100 hours of regular use with all functionalities accessible in Smart Mode.

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The search engine giant disclosed that it made fundamental design changes to the platform and substantially expanded the capabilities of the Wear OS hybrid interface, improving two key areas: power and performance.

This lets Google and OnePlus create a premium smartwatch experience that doesn’t compromise the advanced feature set or battery life. The former also detailed key insights on how it has been done behind the doors.

Wear OS smartwatches have a dual-chipset architecture inclusive of a powerful application processor (AP) and ultra-low-power co-processor microcontroller unit (MCU). The architecture has a powerful AP capable of handling complex operations en-masse, and is seamlessly coupled with a low-power MCU.

The Wear OS hybrid interface enables intelligent switching between the MCU and the AP, allowing the AP to be suspended when not needed to preserve battery life. It helps achieve more power-efficient experiences, like sensor data processing on the MCU while the AP is asleep.

To enhance connectivity-reliant interactions like notifications and phone calls, OnePlus utilized platform capabilities with the notification API in the hybrid interface, enabling the MCU to process regular notification experiences and reduce the need to activate the AP.