Qualcomm and Tencent QQ Collaborate to Bring Wearable QQ Experience
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Qualcomm and Tencent QQ Announce Collaboration to Bring Wearable QQ Experiences to the Snapdragon Wear Platform
— June 27 —
Qualcomm Technologies and Tencent QQ announced today at MWC Shanghai 2019 that they are collaborating to bring the popular QQ social service to children’s watches powered by the Qualcomm® Snapdragon Wear™ platform, through the launch of an upgraded version of QQ – QQ for Kids Watch. Tencent QQ is a popular social platform for young people in China, providing instant messaging, information, entertainment and payment functions to over 800 million users.
QQ for Kids brings optimized user experiences such as “Touch to add friends” and high-quality audio and video calls to the Snapdragon Wear platform. This optimized user experience includes an overhauled and easy-to-use user interface, a smaller footprint, and faster response times. The “Touch to add friends” feature allows consumers to easily and seamlessly add QQ friends to each other just by touching the kids’ watch. The high-quality voice and video call experience provides wearable devices with rich VoIP-based services, convenient voice input capabilities, and a rich library of emoticons. QQ for Kids plans to continue to introduce exclusive features such as more friend dynamics, QQ sports red envelopes, and parent management in upcoming updates.
During MWC Shanghai, Qualcomm and Tencent QQ announced a number of smartwatch products that support the new children's watch QQ. These smartwatches include the 360 S1 children's phone watch based on Snapdragon Wear 2100, China Mobile CMCC C4 children's watch and Kido X3, and TicWatch Kids based on Snapdragon Wear 2500 launched by Mobvoi.
Pankaj Kedia, senior director and global head of the smart wearables market segment at Qualcomm said:
儿童智能手表在中国和全球保持着迅猛的发展势头。我们非常高兴与腾讯QQ开展合作,为基于Snapdragon Wear平台的儿童智能手表带来广受欢迎的QQ服务,这将显著改善孩子们日常沟通和联系的方式。我很高兴看到包括360、中国移动、Kido以及出门问问在内的客户,在他们的产品中支持儿童手表QQ。新一代儿童手表QQ体验,通过充分利用Snapdragon Wear平台低功耗、高性能以及4G连接特性,将进一步加速儿童智能手表在消费者中的普及。
Xia Zhiyong, head of Tencent Children's Watch QQ, said:
Currently, children's smart watches have become a must-have item for many Chinese children. I believe that with the improvement of user experience, the growth of this market will be even more rapid. Therefore, Tencent QQ launched a children's watch version of QQ designed specifically for children, and cooperated with Qualcomm to break through the social barriers for children's smart watch devices based on Snapdragon Wear, and provide more complete and optimized social services.
Qualcomm continues to lead the 4G kids smartwatch market segment, with more than 30 kids smartwatches shipped globally, from brands including 360, Anda, BBK, China Mobile, Coolpad, Infomark, Mobvoi, Kido, LG U+, Linktop, Moda Communications, Wuzhou Wireless, TCL, Verizon and Vodafone.