by dbadmin | Nov 19, 2024 | Android 16, Bluetooth, Google, News
Android 16 Developer Preview 1 introduces a new Audio Sharing feature that lets other people listen to your phone’s media along with you. This feature is based on Auracast, which is the marketing term for Bluetooth LE Audio broadcasting. Of Google’s Pixel phones, only...
by dbadmin | Oct 6, 2024 | Bluetooth, Features
Credit: Robert Triggs / Android Authority Within a span of just a couple of decades, Bluetooth has evolved from a niche wireless protocol to a ubiquitous technology that we rely on daily for connecting everything from headphones to smart home devices. It’s now the...
by dbadmin | Sep 26, 2024 | Bluetooth, News, Xiaomi
The latest smartphones from Xiaomi support Auracast, i.e. Bluetooth LE Audio broadcasting. Auracast lets phones share audio to multiple devices over Bluetooth. The feature is supported on all flagship phones released by Xiaomi in 2024, but there’s a catch. Sharing...
by dbadmin | Sep 11, 2024 | Android 15, Bluetooth, Google, News
Google has updated its Fast Pair service to work with earbuds that support the Bluetooth LE Audio standard. However, only devices that run Android 15 can apparently use Fast Pair to connect to Bluetooth LE Audio devices. This may be because Android 15 has numerous...
by dbadmin | Sep 6, 2024 | Android 15, Bluetooth, News
Bluetooth Channel Sounding is a new feature of Bluetooth 6.0 that offers more secure and precise distance measurements between devices. Although the Bluetooth SIG just released the Bluetooth 6.0 specification this week, Google already added support for the feature in...
by dbadmin | Sep 5, 2024 | Bluetooth, Bluetooth trackers, News
Credit: Rita El Khoury / Android Authority Bluetooth SIG has released the Bluetooth 6.0 Core Specification. This spec introduces Bluetooth Channel Sounding, which allows true distance awareness between Bluetooth devices. It also introduces smaller upgrades for lower...
