Qualcomm unveils Snapdragon Sound for high-quality, low-latency wireless audio

05 March 2021
Xiaomi, Audio-Technica and Amazon Music have already signed up for the Snapdragon Sound platform.

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Qualcomm already ahead in the Bluetooth audio game.
Poor Apple users have no access to high quality Bluetooth codec on iPhones.

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    • Anonymous
    • LeZ
    • 05 Mar 2021

    You cant even hear past 20-18k hz what's the point? But regardless I love the progress. AT jumping in means it's finally time to take this seriously. Maybe in the next 5 years, we will be able to enjoy great quality wirelessly.

      Definitely wouldn't hold my breath on this. I always remembered the struggle of getting a clear sound from my wireless Bluetooth headphone before, especially during gaming. Even the audio quality can be rather questionable - even on my old Samsung Note 4, my used $20 Pioneer headphone can make a better sound than my $100 Bluetooth headphone, and that's before I switch to the LG V50 and enable the Quad DAC feature. That is why I'm not embracing wireless audio anymore, wired audio is still a relevant solution in 2021 and beyond. The ONLY advantage I can see with wireless audio is portability during exercise or workout, and that's it. Would I use wireless audio for pretty much everything else? Definitely not!

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        • RS333
        • CbC
        • 05 Mar 2021

        So much blank space in between......But for what ?? My problem or is it like that ?🙄

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          • Anonymous
          • JTy
          • 05 Mar 2021

          Anonymous, 05 Mar 2021MediaTek better. Chinese technolgy. Sony uses it in latest ... moreMediatek is Taiwan.
          Just a chip.
          This here is about codecs.

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            • Anonymous
            • d%$
            • 05 Mar 2021

            MediaTek better. Chinese technolgy. Sony uses it in latest headphones.

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              • Anonymous
              • JTy
              • 05 Mar 2021

              89ms latency this one.
              Do they brag about against Apple?
              It surely cant be Sony. The LDAC is 30ms.


                Wondering how much better than ldac? Higher bitrate? Any high resolution audio player using this technology or do we have wait another 2 years as the dac is never that good in mobile phones

                  "24-bit 96 kHz audio"

                  The issue with bluetooth was the low bitrate, and thus the low corresponding bit-depth. I wonder what the bitrate has been pushed up to.

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                    • AnonD-976961
                    • 8uB
                    • 05 Mar 2021

                    High quality sound for "Bluetooth" earphones is a joke.
                    You can never achieve the true lossless quality without a wired 3.5mm jack headset.

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                      • Anonymous
                      • vG@
                      • 05 Mar 2021

                      first let them put huge speakers inside the phones and then we talk about headsets

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