Compared to bluetooth :
- 60% lower power consumption
- Six times higher data transmission speed
- 1/30th the latency
- 7 dB improvement anti-interference for a more stable connection
- Twice the coverage distance, and
- 10 times more network connections
Notice it’s not talking of compression yet, but raw connection performance.
Due to the US Huawei ban, the tech won’t arrive to the US yet. Nor maybe ever until something is done.
I’m skeptical about all the claims and 60% less power consumption. Usually to get greater range, you need to up the power consumption. I’m not a bluetooth/electromagnetic spectrum expert though, so maybe they figured something out with the modulation or something.
Seems really light on details. I couldn’t find anything searching around and find these numbers hard to believe. I feel like it’ll be something like you can have 60% lower power OR this other claim but not all the claims at the same time.
Smells like marketing.
It depends on the bandwidth. And since it’s digital transfer, some things can be changed, we’re not talking directly about the analogic bandwidth/range ratio.
I’ve not read the article but the exchange protocol can be to blame
There’s already different classes of BT. The common class used for most that is the 30 feet, another that’s around 5 feet, and one that’s like 200 feet.
But all of the claims seem farfetched. The range, power, and latency? Like they suddenly came up with all new tech that decimates BT that astoundingly? All while they’re trying to BS themselves around about the tech ban not harming them?
Yeah, it’s probably just BS.
So basically like a compromise between wifi & bluetooth?
The thing is, people using bluetooth is not looking for raw performance. When they more performance, they’d go with wifi. Wifi data transfer is a thing.
Last but not least, it’s Huawei…
Edit: Regardless of the privacy & security stuff, Huawei is known for coming up with a bunch of empty gimmicks (see: Harmony OS).
Not really like that.
Right now it’s not possible to connect a headset/headphone via wifi to a device other than some proprietary things.
So a general competitor usable on all devices allowing more data transfer for more audio with less compression. I think it could be interesting.
Not just because it would maybe be better. But because competition on a market is a good thing for the consumer. And push bluetooth maybe further than what it is.
Tho if by some misunderstanding, the chip used isn’t compatible with bluetooth I’m not very sure… As brands would need to include 2 chips, which increases the cost.
and it’s proprietary, so less adoption
I would certainly love Bluetooth to be higher bandwidth, for things like high-fidelity audio.
Currently Bluetooth pairing usually works quite well on almost all devices. Conversely, wifi-based pairing is mostly a disaster. So much that even respected brands can’t get it right.
I sometimes control a high end camera through my phone. For basic controls it connects via Bluetooth but if you want live-shooting (you see what’s being captured on the phone) it switches to WiFi. It’s ALWAYS a massive pain in the ass, takes forever to connect, disconnects if the phone screen is off even just a few seconds, etc etc.
Very low latency would be a big deal for audio. It currently ranges from incredibly high to passable, depending on implementation.
Bluetooth’s poor latency performance is quite a big problem. It makes Bluetooth audio peripherals finicky for watching videos, and unsuitable for gaming. Audio headsets for gaming use their own protocols, which annoyingly makes them incompatible with everything else.
Exactly. The important stuff is the stability of connection, even in a train where everyone uses it.
I’m not sure it’s always the only thing people want. Yes stability is needed, even more when a lot of people are using it.
But currently headsets are heavily missing (very) high quality wireless audio and mic at the same time. Maybe this tech could push towards that.
Better Huawei than some American corp.
At least with some American corp. there’s a chance it’s not under the control of some government agency with free reign to abuse the data they’re collecting.
The opposite is true.
With some US-American corp. it’s guaranteed that it’s under the control of all kinds of agencies with free reign to abuse everything.
How is there a chance with Patriot Act and Cloud Act? Collective weed smocking needs to stop friend
Have you actually read those acts? They don’t let American government agencies just browse corporate data willy-nilly. There are plenty of checks on it.
I don’t know what you mean by “collective weed smoking”.
I’m skeptical of any claims when they’re only touted by the one selling it. I’ll wait to see if it actually gets implemented anywhere and is verified by a third party.
I’ve never had a bluetooth device that worked well and connected reliably, so “better than bluetooth” is not hard.
Right. I care less about 60% less power, and more about will it randomly connect my phone to my car as my partner drives away instead to the speakers I was already using on the desk next to me.
That seems pretty interesting mix of the performance of Wifi with the more multi-connection side of Bluetooth. I have yet to see what would support it (or even if there is a generic protocol for things like headset, game controller, screen, remote, media player, etc), but it seems to be the missing technology for wireless haptic feedback controller on PC.
(edit: yes, joycon can do it, but it’s a special case where they does not pass raw audio)
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Bluetooth plus! Now with a CCP backdoor included!
But is the connection speed good and riable?
Shitty pairing or random reconnect slowness/issues have been my #1 complaint about Bluetooth for, oh, 15 years. It’s only barely gotten better in all that time.
What I want is an experience like wired connections, where I just plug it in. Then it works. Immediately. Every time.
Even as quick/reliable as wifi would be ok.
I don’t give a shit about things like speed. Just reliability and decent audio quality.
This makes me somewhat hopeful for one day setting up a decent wireless surround sound in my living room.
Haven’t checked in a while. Are there decent solutions today?
