Here is some interesting info i found in Bluetooth SIG I posted in another thread
The Samsung Galaxy Buds 2 Pro are going to be updated to LE Audio I think. All the blogs are carrying news about a new spacial recording feature which apparently requires LE Audio. The spatial recording is the banner headline, LE Audio the footnote.
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So it’s confirmed that if you have Bluetooth 5 or more, a firmware update will give one LE Audio?
Yes but it is unlikely any of the manufactures will do that unless you are Cochlear Ltd and i suspect resound is prepping for Omnia FW update soon for LE Audio
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Oh well I hope that’s not true, it would be massive if the latest HAs and mobile devices could be updated, obviously not for older models…but one can hope.
Ohhhh if that’s correct then I might have to update quicker then I expected! What about ReSound one, left behind I suppose!
not likely, if you look at the release pattern of 2 firmware update within 1 year of it release… one at 6 month and another at 1 year… and probably, bug fixes for 3 years
Yeah I think your right about that, only so many firmware updates before a new platform release, which seems to be 2 years now.
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It seems strange to me that you can use them to record some weird proprietary audio format but you can’t listen to music using LE Audio? Samsung press release:
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OTH, if you look at the One PR on ReSound Pro, the rubric for the One is still something like that the One has “future-proof Bluetooth Low-Energy” and I think there was a post or two on the forum by folks that claimed a ReSound rep had told them that the One would be upgradeable to BT LE Audio (it has BT 5.2). I wouldn’t call a BT LE device that can’t be upgraded to BT LE Audio very future-proof!!! OTH, conspiracy theory here: Was it Apple that found BT 5.2 not good enough for its BT LE Audio purposes, hence BT 5.3 and the hold-up on the official release of BT LE Audio as a finished product? Maybe the Omnia, which is very similar to the One except for the supposed improvements in Front Focus vs. Ultrafocus, was issued simply because the One wasn’t good enough for Apple’s plans for BT LE Audio, but the Omnia might be? (Don’t know what the truth is, am just looking to start another good conspiracy theory!).
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the protocol let’s you be independent in in left and right bidirectional.
Apple have nothing to do with resound plans and BT 5.2 is enough to support this. It is entirely possible that the One could support BT LEA. Based on the information, this is good news! I am not ruling that out. The improvement that 5.3 over 5.2 is just to lower power consumption… Apple just supported the LE Audio through tBluetooth SIG
See my research on Resound LEWIS platform.
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So that’s the beauty of LE Audio, there’s no Android/Apple dancing around ,MFi streaming will be just a distraction, one for all with LE Audio right?
it is the true successor to ASHA/MFI protocol because no company want to maintain proprietary protocol…
Brilliant,I was hoping this was the case, well I hope Jim and you are right that the One’s have a chance of getting LE.
Interesting news about Apple supporting LE Audio, but I don’t see anything from Apple when I do a search for products with BAP and CAP. Seems like we’re still at a point that if one wants LE Audio, one should buy with extreme caution. Samsung supports BAP and CAP in their latest Fold and Flip models that have BT 5.2, but have several other models that have BT 5.3 that don’t support BAP and CAP.
Hopefully things become more clear as the year progresses.
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Do you consider NRF Connect a reliable tool to determine if a device is LE Audio compatible?
I have not looked into that and i don’t use it that often but it is made by the same company that makes the GN LEWIS 4 to 7 hardware platform
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Another “conspiracy theory,” ReSound hasn’t announced any BT LE Audio firmware upgrade for the Omnia et al., because it’s politely waiting for its other Danish partner in MFi HA’s to come out with its latest model, which will also be BT LE Audio compatible (a search seems to show that the More only has BT 5.0). Why be nice to the competition? Because BT LE Audio compatibility will mean more if there are More (pun not intended) players. Both Oticon and ReSound were significant members of the BT LE Audio Bluetooth SIG.
I brought the new M2 macbook pro 14 inch with the new Bluetooth 5.3 chipset!
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