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Blocks Modular Smartwatch-In-The-Making Will Run On Android

Submitted by Roy Schestowitz on Tuesday 2nd of June 2015 07:41:25 PM Filed under
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Hardware

U.K. hardware startup Blocks Wearables, which is in the process of building a modular smartwatch — shown off in concept-form in this teaser video last fall, and originally inspired by Google’s Project Ara modular smartphone — has confirmed the device will run on a modified version of Android Lollipop, rather than the Google Wear platform.

Also today the team has revealed the device’s core module will be powered by a Qualcomm Snapdragon 400 chipset, with peripheral modules using ultra-low-power ARM processors.

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