... you'll not need only new phone, but new wireless headphones that have new DAC in them capable decoding the proprietary format.
Yet wired ones work with all these fancy high bit rates "out of the box"
Not necesarely a new phone, if they let you sacrefice the extra battery used by cpu encide/decode as abbosed to doing it in an asic. But yea new bt headphones will probably be required
Not necesarely a new phone, if they let you sacrefice the extra battery used by cpu encide/decode as abbosed to doing it in an asic. But yea new bt headphones will probably be required
As far as I know, all Bluetooth audio codecs are done on the main CPU, there's no ASIC offload. Qualcomm will provide you the necessary libraries and you have to sign a licensing agreement. Licensing fees are cheaper if you have a CSR (Cambridge Silicon Radio) Bluetooth chip (owned by Qualcomm, of course).
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As far as I know, all Bluetooth audio codecs are done on the main CPU, there's no ASIC offload. Qualcomm will provide you the necessary libraries and you have to sign a licensing agreement. Licensing fees are cheaper if you have a CSR (Cambridge Silicon Radio) Bluetooth chip (owned by Qualcomm, of course).
But it's always been
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