Google's latest iPhone rival off to a rocky start

Re:Google's latest iPhone rival off to a rocky start by baby on Monday October 23, 2017 @08:16PM (#15538120)

I use the airpods and these are the future. I'm always wearing them and they are the least intrusing earbuds I ever wore. Now I always carry a wired one with me for two reasons:

1. The battery doesn't always last. the benefits are huge so I'm OK with it though. I don't think I'll ever go full airpods just because I'm always going to be in situations where I have no battery in these.

2. My Nintendo switch and some other devices don't have bluetooth :(

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Re:Google's latest iPhone rival off to a rocky start by NoodleIncident on Monday October 23, 2017 @08:26PM (#15538171)

I saw the other day that no other game consoles use bluetooth headsets. However a recent Switch update enabled USB audio, either through the dock or with an adapter on the port (although for handheld you might as well just use a wire).

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Re:Google's latest iPhone rival off to a rocky start by NovaS1X on Monday October 23, 2017 @09:44PM (#15538576)

I remember reading that the Bluetooth spec has about 300ms of latency. Far too much for games, which is why no current console uses Bluetooth for their headsets.

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Re:Google's latest iPhone rival off to a rocky start by selectodude on Monday October 23, 2017 @10:42PM (#15538812)

The PS3 and PS4 use Bluetooth for their actual game controllers and the PS4 has audio out on the controller.

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Re:Google's latest iPhone rival off to a rocky start by MBCook on Monday October 23, 2017 @08:45PM (#15538268)

No matter how well you don’t Bluetooth has some latency, so until something improves I wouldn’t expect it to show up on game consoles.

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