I hate it when playing a game and listening to the audio on a Bluetooth device there is a noticeable delay in the audio.
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'Bluetooth 5' to be Announced Next Week [Update: Bringing 2x Speed, 4x Range]
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I just hope it works better & lossless audio would be a bonus. When it works well, I love the idea. At work I always had issue with the cable. It's either too short or too long and I roll over it with my chair. When I'm in the bus, when the cable hits my screen, it register touch events.. When I'm outdoors, I can hold my phone in my hand and the bluetooth connection will break off and hear static noise . I tried 5 pairs, same results. When I'm indoor, I get a perfect signal.
Considering this article says this technology is "backed by Apple", that indicates to me Apple has known this has been in development for quite some time and thus has had plenty of time to design it in the iPhone 7.
But knowing Apple, probably won't happen. They like to spoon feed us new features to give us reasons to keep upgrading to new phones every year.
When you or anyone else says audio upgrade, what do you mean? Looking at the new Bose QC35, are these going to sound not as good because its using Bluetooth 4? Are these improvements more on the audio device transmitting the audio or receiving the audio?
Does this mean that anyone probably should hold off on buying devices like the QC35 because the audio quality will be getting a boost that QC35 hardware will be "outdated" once BT5 comes out?
Awesome! Bluetooth can be tad bit finicky sometimes, so any improvements make me happy.
Also...why must so many people be so negative, childish, and complain about every single thing. I don't understand. You'd complain of they didn't make improvements...yet here they are...making improvements and you whine.
Also...why must so many people be so negative, childish, and complain about every single thing. I don't understand. You'd complain of they didn't make improvements...yet here they are...making improvements and you whine.
30 year old tech that was supposed to replace the serial cable and STILL is not as reliable as a serial cable. If I were drawing up a new revision spec, number one on the list would be:
"1. As reliable as a serial cable"
Good question. Given we don't really know where the 7 is in it's production ramp, a new chip could be in it. Especially if we are looking at an October ship date.
However, the realist in me says 2017.
Current bluetooth works fine for most people but it's not up to the quality of great wired headphones. The data rate just isn't there. Compression algorithms like AptX help, but most audio is already compressed, so compression on compression compounds and you get different types of loss from each.
Short answer, current Bluetooth is good, new Bluetooth is going to be a lot better, possibly on par with wired headphones.
Where there's a cable, there's a tangled mess waiting to happen. I have no interest in cables.
I'd recommend looking for current 4.0 bt headsets that offer AptX codec and Class 1 power rating (which when connected to most computers will offer up to 300 feet of connectivity. I'm using, as I write this, a pair of Plantronics Backbeat Pro headphones that sound great, offer active noise cancellation, 24 hours of use, and can be used for both music and voice.
If it's got 4x bandwidth, at the very least that part of the standard would need new hardware. The schemes in use for even for 4.2 couldn't support that change in software alone. Any increases in range would be out too.
Chance of BT5 being a software thing? zero. Shouldn't even be in the OP.
Also, if you're currently experiencing rampant connection problems, like I was, you'd do well to investigate any USB 3.0 devices/cables you have around. I traced a problem I was having in that area to a cheap, included with a device USB 3.0 cable, replaced that, and suddenly I could use my BT headset much more reliably. (Before I couldn't be more than 5 feet away from my computer when using that headset with it, or I couldn't be within 10 feet of that area if I was using the headset with my iPhone. Now there is no issue at all.)
(http://www.intel.com/content/www/us...al-bus/usb3-frequency-interference-paper.html)
Chance of BT5 being a software thing? zero. Shouldn't even be in the OP.
Also, if you're currently experiencing rampant connection problems, like I was, you'd do well to investigate any USB 3.0 devices/cables you have around. I traced a problem I was having in that area to a cheap, included with a device USB 3.0 cable, replaced that, and suddenly I could use my BT headset much more reliably. (Before I couldn't be more than 5 feet away from my computer when using that headset with it, or I couldn't be within 10 feet of that area if I was using the headset with my iPhone. Now there is no issue at all.)
(http://www.intel.com/content/www/us...al-bus/usb3-frequency-interference-paper.html)
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That's the pesky and annoying little problem with new technologies coming on stream. There's always the one latest feature you really want but can't have unless you upgrade once again, at which point the cycle repeats.
You can never really get ahead and stay there unless you constantly upgrade, grrrrr......
I really hope they are focusing on reliability because that's the problem I seem to run into with almost every Bluetooth device I've used. When/if it works, I like it, but it's sooooo flaky.