OnePlus’s first smartwatch wasn’t quite the flagship wearable many of us hoped it to be. Part of it has to do with the fact that the watch ran on a proprietary OS. Well, after about three years, the brand has launched its successor, the OnePlus Watch 2, and this time, it’s positioning itself as a true flagship with Wear OS.

Artificial intelligence is now setting the tone everywhere, including modems and wireless systems. In the next generation of Qualcomm's smartphone mobile platforms, the Snapdragon X80 modem RF system presented today at Mobile World Congress 2024 and the FastConnect 7900 radio system on a chip will be responsible for improved connectivity, with AI wielding the baton.

Generative AI, i.e. creation of content based on artificial intelligence, is also the number one topic at the Mobile World Congress. Qualcomm will demonstrate what is already possible with the NPUs of the current and future Snapdragon platforms on AI PCs, smartphones, IoT devices, and even cars. The keyword is "on device", i.e. not outsourced to the cloud. Speed fanatics are likely to be eagerly awaiting the Snapdragon X Elite, for example, proving its dominance in a direct AI test with an Intel Meteor Lake chip.