Bluetooth 5 will quadruple the range, double the speed

Re:Bluetooth 5 will quadruple the range, double the speed by TD-Linux on Tuesday June 28, 2016 @03:49AM (#11992147)

I'd highly recommend getting a tiny mp3 player (say Clip Zip, though they are now discontinued...) and a short light headphone cable. Why send audio wirelessly when the tech to play it is as small as the receiver?

There are also headphones with built in players, I don't know how the quality of those is though.

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Re:Bluetooth 5 will quadruple the range, double the speed by icebraining on Tuesday June 28, 2016 @04:41AM (#11992309)

Why send audio wirelessly when the tech to play it is as small as the receiver?

Because you might want to stream audio from the Internet, or you don't want to waste time converting newer audio formats to MP3 and then copying them over, or you'd rather not have cables around you when you work out, or you might want to track what you've listen (particularly useful for audiobooks and long podcasts), etc.

Yes, these are not indispensable life necessities nor anything like that, but given the choice, I'd rather beam the audio from my tablet than carry an extra player.

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Re:Bluetooth 5 will quadruple the range, double the speed by _puk on Tuesday June 28, 2016 @05:09AM (#11992397)

So you'd be happy with a Chromecast Audio receiver built into a set of headphones?

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Re:Bluetooth 5 will quadruple the range, double the speed by Normal_gaussian on Tuesday June 28, 2016 @05:50AM (#11992523)

Bluetooth headphones tend to have device volume control, play, pause, and skip. Many also have microphones and also allow to to take and make calls.

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Re:Bluetooth 5 will quadruple the range, double the speed by justincc on Tuesday June 28, 2016 @04:57AM (#11992351)

Pretty much all the decent dedicated MP3 players have been discontinued. The last really great one for me was the Samsung's range (nee Yepp). But unfortunately the last one was the YP-U7 back in 2012 and it's very obvious they aren't going to make any more, even though they never announced it.

Sony still does players but they're not very good.

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Re:Bluetooth 5 will quadruple the range, double the speed by pietro on Tuesday June 28, 2016 @09:20AM (#11993539)

You can still get iPods in all sizes and colors. They're pretty decent.

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Re:Bluetooth 5 will quadruple the range, double the speed by ccozan on Tuesday June 28, 2016 @05:11AM (#11992409)

Care to elaborate on that? I find the Sony players deliver what they promise, especially the NW-A20 series.

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Re:Bluetooth 5 will quadruple the range, double the speed by agumonkey on Tuesday June 28, 2016 @08:47AM (#11993304)

I hate wires with a passion. I don't what's wrong with me but I manage to tie, bust, wrap, tangle them in every most ridiculous possible wrong way all the time. I'm always sniping for multipairing mp3 capable headphones.

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Re:Bluetooth 5 will quadruple the range, double the speed by supercoder on Tuesday June 28, 2016 @04:52AM (#11992336)

Because it's impossible to stream music, podcasts and take calls ?

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Re:Bluetooth 5 will quadruple the range, double the speed by josho on Tuesday June 28, 2016 @11:08AM (#11994341)

If you take calls at the gym then you are doing it wrong.

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Re:Bluetooth 5 will quadruple the range, double the speed by Figs on Tuesday June 28, 2016 @07:06AM (#11992749)

Because cables get caught on things, tangled up, and are just generally annoying to deal with on your person.

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Re:Bluetooth 5 will quadruple the range, double the speed by legulere on Tuesday June 28, 2016 @03:33AM (#11992075)

Aren't they often made out of metal and act like a faraday cage thus?

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Re:Bluetooth 5 will quadruple the range, double the speed by ascagnel_ on Tuesday June 28, 2016 @09:50AM (#11993745)

Typically, but not always. I've belonged to gyms that have had a metal mesh (along the lines of a stiffer chain-link fence), flat metal (like a high school locker), and wood cabinets for their lockers.

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Re:Bluetooth 5 will quadruple the range, double the speed by tveita on Tuesday June 28, 2016 @09:00AM (#11993393)

If your gym has metal lockers I don't think it will happen any time soon.

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Re:Bluetooth 5 will quadruple the range, double the speed by shurcooL on Tuesday June 28, 2016 @03:13AM (#11992002)

Would you be able to pause or control songs though?

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Re:Bluetooth 5 will quadruple the range, double the speed by gambiting on Tuesday June 28, 2016 @03:15AM (#11992009)

Sure, bluetooth had media controls for ages. I have a bluetooth waterproof speaker that I just take with me in the shower - and I leave my phone outside of the bathroom so it doesn't get wet. I can change songs and pause with buttons on the speaker, with the phone safely on the other side of the wall.

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