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Bluetooth 5.0: Explained!

Bluetooth 5.0: Explained!

So you have probably heard of Bluetooth and you may even know if your phone has Bluetooth 4.0 or 4.1 and 4.2 but generally, those different iterations of Bluetooth are just slight improvements to things like pairing time and low energy modes, etc.

It doesn't really change the way you use it. You just know your phone has Bluetooth.

But, Bluetooth 5.0 that's a pretty big new number that seems to signify a sort of a bigger change. So there's a couple of things you should know about that So what is new with Bluetooth 5.0.

There are three main things that all enable one pretty dope new feature.

2x Faster

4x Range

8x Data

2x Faster

So, Bluetooth pairing is generally not that quick of a process you have to do it very often, but it's pretty slow if you're still in me, who's connecting a lot of Bluetooth speakers as I use a bunch of them, then you know it's not super quick, but with Bluetooth 5.0 shows a direct advantage of data transferring twice as fast, which is the pairing process is a bit quicker and there's also less delay.

You ever watch a video on Bluetooth speakers or Bluetooth headphones and the audio is a little bit behind the video like someone's talking and then you hear it like a split second behind usually not too bad.

But that actually does get solved a bit with Bluetooth 5.0, that delay is a lot smaller.

So that's data speed.

4x Range

That's actually been a real-world weakness of Bluetooth, especially in my past. It depends on what pair of headphones use. But sometimes you can be listening to music in your headphones and you leave your phone another route you walk a little bit too far away and it starts cutting out and then eventually stops.

That happens like all the time the theoretical maximum range of Bluetooth 4.0 was about 50 meters with a direct line of sight but about 10 meters in everyday use through walls and around corners and around different rooms of the house.

So 30 feet tops. So that means you can't get very far away from your phone. If you're trying to listen to music or if you walk around the corner. It's going to cut out and that's kind of annoying.

But with Bluetooth 5.0 As I said quadruples that max range. So a theoretical maximum of 200 meters with a direct line of sight or about 40 meters around a house or indoors.

So that's a hundred twenty feet. That's a legitimate serious Improvement. So that's not just like downstairs and around the corner that's like you can walk out in your backyard while your phone's upstairs. You can walk to the front yard around the gym, whatever you got to do. If you get a lot further from your audio source with Bluetooth 5.0.

8x Data

So first of all, this is benefits Way Beyond just like audio, I'm talking about speakers because usually, that's what we use Bluetooth for, but Bluetooth can also be used for things like Bluetooth beacons and parking meters and small Wireless things.

Those can also be helped by more data throughput through Bluetooth 5.0,

but if you think about a Bluetooth stream like a highway, it used to be a two-lane highway going 40 miles an hour for 20 miles.

Now. It's a 16-lane wide Mega Highway going 80 miles an hour for 80 miles. It's a completely different story.

So having all these Lanes of data moving so fast enables a pretty sweet feature which Samsung calls and which we'll call since they're kind of first to it dual audio, which lets you output to two different Bluetooth speakers at the same time.

This used to be a lot more difficult to do like you've heard of Sonos Speaker right.

Sonos essentially made its living off a couple of things.

But mainly the fact that you could connect to a bunch of different speakers all around the house in different places at once you have to get certain Sono speakers and you have to have that Sonos app, and then you connect the app to the mesh Network that the Sono speakers create among themselves and when you plug that into those speakers then you will get the one audio Source among several so knows what you had to buy those very expensive Sono speakers to make that happen.

This Bluetooth 5.0 and this feature enables that Sono’s experience on any Bluetooth speaker.

So that is Bluetooth five more data more range and faster speeds, and it's got to know about a phone that you may potentially get later this year.

Hi, I’m Shahnawaz. I’m a blogger living in New Delhi, India. I am a fan of technology, photography, and travel. I’m also interested in writing.

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