Just before Apple unveiled the fourth iteration of its Apple Watch, Qualcomm had taken the wraps off of its latest smartwatch SoC – the Snapdragon Wear 3100. Supported and backed by Google, the Qualcomm design is the latest flagship platform for Android-based Wear OS devices, which matters not a jot to Apple – the company that has dominated the smart watch sector to date. The new silicon platform claims significant improvements in battery life, which is still the biggest problem facing smartwatches. A quad-core ARM A7 CPU is the powerhouse of the SoC, supported by a new coprocessor that Qualcomm says is very efficient. It is claiming that you can now enjoy the battery life of a sports watch with…