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What is the new Wear OS Hybrid Interface?

Google has finally made it easier for watchmakers to balance features with battery life.

But they do face a fundamental issue: how to pack powerful features and a good user experience into a tiny device without sacrificing battery life. When the watch is handling simpler tasks like displaying the time, tracking steps, or showing basic notifications, the interface shifts the workload to the much more energy-efficient co-processor. A newer faster "high-power" AP isn't nearly as important as a proper co-processor(s) on a fast internal communication bus that can be managed through the kernel driver in some fashion.

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