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by mschuster91 879 days ago
> If it's truly difficult to use non-Apple headphones with the iPhone

Huh what? At least the large brands have pretty much zero issues.

The exception is battery power indicators (AirPods don't show power level on Android phones, and JBL's PartyBox and Anker's SoundCore don't show power level on iOS/macOS devices), and for older wired headphones the behavior of the buttons may be weird depending on if they have been designed for Apple or for Android.
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baq 879 days ago
I've got the soundcore q45 and battery display works fine on iphones and macbooks.

sound quality is potato level in calls, though.

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mschuster91 878 days ago
Yeah but that's common across all headsets, including AirPods. As soon as the microphone is enabled, it falls back from high-quality AAC to the ages old SBC profile.
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baq 878 days ago
If there's one thing I can't understand about modern wireless voice comms, it's this. We can push megabits per second of pixels, with low latency, over wireless with miracast, but can't figure out how to push 16-20 kHz of 8-bit audio signal full duplex? It makes zero sense.
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mschuster91 878 days ago
The problem is processing power. Encoding of anything takes a lot of battery power, so the complexity must be kept at a minimum.

That said there is a successor called LC3 [1], but hardware support for it has been lacking as it's a relatively fresh standard.

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/LC3_(codec)

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