Android O will add support for in-band ringtones

Peter, 11 August 2017

Android O will be a massive update to phones’ Bluetooth features. Your phone will finally be able to show you the battery level of accessories and in the case of Bluetooth headsets, it will support in-band ringtones. That’s a feature that iPhones have had for ages and Android users have wanted for about as long (since 2009!).

What’s “in-band ringtones”? Essentially, it allows your Bluetooth headset to ring with whatever ringtone you’ve set on your phone. Work on the feature began a few months ago and seems ready now.

Other cool changes in Android O include Sony’s LDAC, which streams music with very high quality – bitrates up to 990Kbps are supported.

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Reader comments

.alpha
14 Aug 2017
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Android still cannot show Bluetooth headset battery level nor play ringtone, kinda amazing people can still claim their never updated phones are "the best"

stobs
14 Aug 2017
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wow! this isn't part of android?? i haven't used a bluetooth headset for calls since i last used a nokia + symbian which had this 'feature' present already - so quite surprised to know about this!

Anonymous
13 Aug 2017
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Thank you Sony for helping Google on the Android O. Hope you can lend more help to others. Comments like yours is very refreshing from the usual bashing and trolling. Oooh! My mistake. I replied to a wrong comment. Hahahaha. Next!